Financial Analyst

Responsibilities Include

• Act as key SME in your assigned Account Payable areas
• Analyzing metrics relating to operational performance and effectively presenting data to leadership and internal teams
• Working actively and accurately on an independent basis; ensuring great attention to detail and displaying the initiative to quickly identify and resolve variances, failures and discrepancies
• Interacting with Operations, Business Partnering & Finance teams on root cause analysis, updating SOP's, communication and backward planning.
• Work with global stakeholders to identify and drive improvement opportunities to success. This would include driving a culture of continuous improvement through quality initiatives like Lean & Six Sigma.
• Publish accurate and timely monthly/bi-annual Payment Practice reports ensuring alignment with regulatory guidelines
• Ability to create process and business requirements to enable tech solutions for automated reporting
• Partner with AP-Analytics in maintaining and improving dashboards by ensuring timely addition of new entities
• Review Payment Practice regulations, including updating reporting logic and rules for any law amendments by working with legal point of contacts
• Complete self-inspection of data, which may require sampling invoices for all/new ingestion sources.
• Respond to audit questions from CSI/FORI/External audit relating to reporting.
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A day in the life

The ideal candidate will be experienced in finance role with an understanding of finance operations and will have experience in relationship management. He/she will have problem solving skills with the focus on improving the processes and strengthening the payment practices. The ideal candidate should have action-driven personality and motivation to proactively address any issues and identify areas for improvement. Additional traits we are looking for are a strong desire to exceed expectations, effective interpersonal skills; including persuasive written and oral communication, solid organizational skills and ability to assess and manage risk.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
• 2+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• Knowledge of standard software including Excel, Access, Oracle, Essbase, SQL and VBA skills
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience in corporate finance including budgeting/planning, forecasting and reporting
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Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis