Senior Analyst - Financial

Overview

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be responsible for the preparation, coordination, and documentation of forward-looking financial and business-related projects. You will prepare financial forecasts and/or reports and provides strategic analytical expertise for assigned areas. You will identify issues and suggests courses of action and makes recommendations for improving operations.

• Develop and manage profitability analysis across multiple lines of business.
• Prepare and deliver reporting on IT project and investment-related expenditures, ensuring accuracy and alignment with financial objectives.
• Enhance and maintain standardized approaches in analyzing, evaluating, and obtaining approvals for financial support of RFP’s, bids, and proposed contracts.
• Evaluate actual performance on contracts vs. proposed.
• Coordinate across functions and business units to obtain information and garner input on key assumptions and variables.
• Support development of unit’s annual budget, and tracks and analyzes variances throughout year.
• Monitor progress toward objectives.
• Identify issues and suggests courses of action, makes recommendations for improving operations, and resource allocation.
• Perform additional strategic analytical functions.
• Conduct detail end of period review of financials to ensure proper reporting.
• Manage and organize large amounts of data:
  Analysis and interpretation of complex financial and statistical data; managing and organizing large amounts of data.
• Accountable for resolutions of any issues, variances and errors in general ledger & subledger related to project spend.
• Assist with the monthly close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting activities.
• May provide direction and support to more junior analysts.

• Bachelors’ Degree - Accounting, Finance, or business related required
• 3 years required of financial analysis experience; including discounted cash flow
• 1 year required of data query extraction and analytics experience
• 1 year required of profit and loss and balance sheet forecasting and management experience
• Comfortable navigating fragmented systems, managing manual databases effectively, and establishing structured, scalable processes in a dynamic environment
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex analytical data into clear, easily understandable formats
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite – High proficiency in Excel
• Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, etc.) preferred for creating clear, actionable insights from complex datasets
• Preferred experience with Planview for effective project and investment tracking.
• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Managing and organizing large amounts of data
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects and deadlines
• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections
• Report writing utilizing Hyperion and Oracle
• Short and long-term budgeting and forecasting, rolling budgets, and product-line profitability analysis is preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25%