As a Financial Associate in our Finance team, you will focus on defining, refining, and achieving set goals for our firm
Your responsibilities include partnering across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, overseeing budgeting and forecasting, and delivering management reports
You will handle financial control, analyze business metrics, and develop new reporting capabilities like dashboards
Additionally, you will advise line of business CFOs on enhancing profitability and efficiency
Your role involves analyzing and reconciling data, preparing reports, and streamlining processes through automation
You will also contribute to developing business procedure recommendations and maintaining financial systems, while assisting with special projects as needed

Job Responsibilities

Manage annual and continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting.
Conduct reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports.
Report on efficiency, analytics, and strategy, including location strategy, span of control, reporting, and analytics.
Create financial business cases supporting business initiatives.
Report on and monitor key metrics, drive data quality initiatives across the product area, and help define future needs of the product area.
Develop and track performance metrics, create presentations, and provide financial analysis on various topics to senior management.
Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and present commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
Help design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management.
Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

bachelorsdegree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

3+ years of work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background
Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FPA 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

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