Financial Planning & Analysis Associate

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Financial Analysis. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Planning & Analysis Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Managing annual and continual financial planning activities for product areas, and providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting.
• Conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, including consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports.
• Developing efficiency reporting, analytics, and strategy, including location strategy, span of control, and reporting and analytics.
• Creating financial business cases to support business initiatives.
• Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area.
• Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management.
• Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
• Designing new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver financial results to senior management.
• Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Chartered Accountant, Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
• Minimum 3 years of work experience.
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly. Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
• Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments, often with little lead time or information
• Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
• Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background