Sr. Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst is responsible for conducting quantitative analyses of information affecting budgets, operating expenses, and/or other financial projects. Focuses on short and long-term financial planning and/or financial analysis of business operations for the purpose of measuring and forecasting future business performance. Develops strong understanding of business process and data flows to perform ad-hoc financial impact analysis. This position has the ability to make positive financial contributions to the company by discovering cost saving opportunities and ensure a standard high level of reporting integrity.

• Build a strong understanding of business processes and data relationships necessary to understand a business need, analyze related data, and deliver reporting that provides key insights used in decision making.
• Assist with the annual budget and quarterly reforecast process, model preparation and submission, and completion of presentation packages. Assist the Director/ Manager with personnel and contractor costs tracking.
• Facilitate delivery of data or reporting supporting operating expense variance analysis and reporting.
• Build and deploy financial models and utilize analysis to identify cost savings opportunities.
• Analyze, educate, and recommend changes to accounting operations policies and procedures to support a strong control environment.
• Track, document, and work to resolve outstanding project tasks and issues.
• Prepare and review reports & other analysis as required for achieving financial objectives.
• Perform analysis of data trends on operational budget spend
• Prepare monthly accruals, journal entries and other analyses as part of the monthly accounting close.
• Perform monthly review of financial statements and identify trends.