As a Financial Analyst, you begin driving various areas within business finance, including building financial forecasts from ground-up, ROI, BVA, conducting gap analysis, developing the drivers for revenues/costs, understanding basic DCF with cost of capital over time value of money. You recommend process optimization to leadership, work both inside and outside of your immediate team, and you may oversee the work of more junior colleagues. You collaborate through your internal and external relationships, and can take some ownership of day-to-day problems, while still escalating larger issues to management, as needed. You possess strong knowledge and expertise that enables you to adapt to ambiguity and you ensure alignment between your work and the broader business finance goals and objectives. Responsibilities include:
- Analyze datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the business.
- Manage project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and project documentation. Propose next steps and roadblock solutions and anticipate questions and challenges.
- Create financial reporting for a product area, market, or team within Finance and provide insights and impactful recommendations.
- Engage in citizenship contributions at an individual level, such as recruiting contributions, volunteering for ERG or other community events.
- Design and obtain buy-in for process changes. Coordinate one or more components of change management.
- Analyze and disseminate data within a FP&A area to drive operational excellence, deliver insights, and revenue growth.
- Develop data and research to identify and mitigate risk and escalate issues as needed.
- Build or maintain financial models that track direct and allocated spending, planning, and forecasting for deals in product or finance area(s).
Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
- Communication skills
- Business partnering
- Financial modeling
- Financial performance metrics
- Financial research and analysis
- Accounting knowledge
- Stakeholder management
- Finance or FP&A technical skills
- Data analytics
- Problem solving
- Finance risk management
- Financial technical aptitude