Financial Analyst

Summary
This role will support global Finance stakeholders and may require periodic overlap with PT working hours for key meetings, stakeholder touchpoints, transition activities, and close or forecast-related support. The candidate should be comfortable flexing selectively when business needs require cross-time-zone coordination. The Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is focused on centralizing, standardizing, and modernizing key financial operations to unlock scale, accuracy, and strategic capacity. The team acts as business process owners, driving design and continuous improvement across high-impact financial workflows. This role will support all core operational workstreams, delivering through a blend of in-house execution, process optimization, and automation and agentic tooling.

Job Responsibilities:

• Financial Operations & Process Execution:
  • Support execution of recurring Finance COE processes, including position management, headcount forecasting, expense accruals, general month-end close support, and other related operational workflows.
  • Own assigned process steps end-to-end, ensuring outputs are accurate, complete, timely, and aligned to agreed standards, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
  • Maintain and update trackers, reconciliations, and reporting files used to support defined scope of work and operational decision-making.
  • Validate source data across systems, stakeholder inputs, and reporting outputs, investigating discrepancies and escalating issues where appropriate.
  • Support weekly, monthly, and quarterly operating cycles by preparing analysis, consolidating inputs, tracking process status, and ensuring deliverables are completed on time.
• Process Improvement & Domain Expertise:
  • Build deep expertise in assigned COE workstreams and serve as a knowledgeable execution partner for recurring financial processes.
  • Apply critical thinking to evaluate outputs, pressure test assumptions, and challenge process steps or stakeholder requests when they do not align with the data, process design, or intended business outcome.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve processes based on recurring pain points, stakeholder feedback, data quality issues, or manual effort.
  • Recommend practical process improvements that improve accuracy, efficiency, consistency, and stakeholder experience.
  • Assist in documenting workflows, process steps, controls, FAQs, and standard operating procedures to support repeatability, onboarding, and business continuity.
• Stakeholder Partnership:
  • Partner with Finance stakeholders, systems teams, and COE team members to gather inputs, resolve process questions, and support successful execution of assigned workstreams.
  • Communicate clearly on process status, risks, blockers, and required stakeholder actions.
  • Support cross-time-zone collaboration with India and NAMER-based partners, including periodic NAMER overlap for critical meetings, deliverables, and business-cycle activities.
  • Translate stakeholder feedback and recurring business needs into clear recommendations for process or reporting improvements.
  • Help drive adoption of standardized ways of working by reinforcing process expectations, documentation, and consistent execution.
• Tools, Systems & Automation:
  • Use Excel and other financial or reporting tools to maintain models, reporting outputs, reconciliations, and analytical deliverables.
  • Support adoption of new tools, templates, automation, AI-enabled workflows, and process enhancements where applicable.
  • Partner with team members to identify manual steps that could be streamlined, automated, or better controlled.
  • Assist with testing, validation, and documentation for process or tooling changes.
• Culture & Values:
  • Contribute to a team culture grounded in ownership, learning, inclusion, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate effectively with teammates and stakeholders across locations, functions, and time zones.
  • Demonstrate strong judgment, accountability, and professionalism when handling financial data, recurring deliverables, and stakeholder requests.

• Financial Acumen
• Stakeholder Management
• Process Redesign
• Data Analysis
• Experience with Oracle ERP
• Project & Change Management

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Business Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in FP&A, Finance Operations, Accounting, Business Operations, or a related analytical finance role.
• Experience using Excel to manage, analyze, reconcile, and summarize financial or operational data.
• Experience supporting recurring financial processes, reporting cycles, reconciliations, planning, forecasting, accruals, headcount, expense management, or related workflows.
• Experience supporting financial operations such as headcount forecasting, position management, accruals, month-end close, non-labor expense management, reporting, or planning processes.
• Analytical background working directly in an FP&A environment modeling bookings, revenue, headcount, and expenses.
• Understanding of accounting theory and practice (e.g., basic revenue recognition rules, accruals, company capitalization policies, and proper expense timing).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify discrepancies, investigate root causes, and summarize findings clearly.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, completeness, and timely execution.
• Ability to learn complex processes quickly and develop strong domain expertise over time.
• Demonstrated ability to question outputs, pressure test assumptions, and raise thoughtful challenges when something does not align with the data or process intent.
• Experience documenting processes, workflows, controls, or standard operating procedures.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate across functions and time zones.
• Comfort operating in a global delivery model, including periodic overlap with NAMER hours for key business needs.
• Experience with financial systems and reporting tools such as Oracle, Workday, EPM/Essbase, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar tools.
• Proactive problem solver with strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities with limited supervision.

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