Financial Planning Analyst

Your responsibilities will include providing financial insights and projections to the accounting team. You will provide reliable data and analysis for decision-making and planning.

You will prepare accurate monthly financial reports, identify action items, and effectively frame decisions that need to be made.

Responsibilities

• Provide FP&A finance support to the accounting teams regarding productivity, demand planning, reporting, and financial metrics
• Prepare budgets and forecasts, variance analyses, long-term planning, risk/opportunity assessments, and periodic/ad hoc reporting
• Work on corporate projects and initiatives that impact the entire organization
• Partner with the accounting team during the close process, which includes reviewing departmental general ledgers, recording transactional activity, preparing revenue and expense accruals, and providing P&L and Cash variance explanations to budget and forecasts
• Identify areas for revenue opportunities and cost improvements
• Serve as Finance liaison to departments by working closely with them in understanding their business, supporting their initiatives, and general financial inquiries
• Identify and research variances regarding forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses
• Assist in automating the consolidated reporting process
• Conduct necessary account and system reconciliations
• Review financial reports, presentations, and other management reporting needs
• Ad hoc business reporting and analysis as needed
• Additional responsibilities as assigned

Skills

• CA/CMA
• 1 to 5 years of experience
• General knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels
• High level of commitment to quality work product and organizational ethics, integrity and compliance
• Comfortable navigating through grey areas without clear solutions
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture
• Strong Excel skills
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
• Self-starter with good time management skills when urgent deadlines need to be met