Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst will be responsible for supporting key initiatives within Equifax Workforce Solutions, working closely with Finance Leadership to provide value-added, strategic financial and business reporting. This role will support consolidation efforts within Finance, such as the month-end close process, internal and external audit requests, budgeting, forecasting, investor relations requests, Executive-level presentations and financial reporting governance.

• Prepare local business unit presentations in coordination with appropriate key contacts within Equifax Workforce Solutions, such as:
  • Monthly business updates with Equifax Workforce Solutions Leadership
  • Monthly financial reviews with the Equifax business unit Presidents, business unit SFOs, CFO, and CEO
  • Quarterly business updates with Equifax Senior Leadership and Equifax Workforce Solutions Leadership
  • Board presentations with Equifax Workforce Solutions Leadership and Board of Directors
• Prepare monthly financial presentations and provide supporting documentation for communication to business partners and Senior Executives
• Execute with Corporate Accounting and local finance team on the closing process; coordinate with Corporate Accounting and local finance team on internal and external audit processes
• Assist with the local business unit budgeting and forecasting consolidation with support of the finance team; govern financial data hierarchical structures to ensure consistency with financial reporting
• Utilize financial query system (Hyperion Essbase) to provide adhoc requests to support business partners and Executives
• Apply analytic reasoning to draw out insights in alignment with business priorities, explain the logic and reasoning to stakeholders, and deliver recommendations in alignment with strategy
• Extract, transform and blend a diverse data set of data sources from systems and relational databases (e.g., CRM, SQL, Adobe Analytics) using tools such as Google Sheets, Alteryx, SQL and Tableau Prep
• Flag and monitor data quality to ensure confidence in the data used for analysis

• Bachelor’s degree required, in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or Engineering preferred; MBA preferred
• 2-4 years of relevant work experience

• Financial governance experience preferred
• Hyperion Planning and Essbase experience a plus
• Interactive data visualization software experience (preferably Tableau)
• Experience in transforming raw data sets into compelling and meaningful visual illustrations
• Detail-oriented and organized