Finance & Strategy - Financial Analyst

Description

The Finance & Strategy (F.S) team serves as a trusted advisor to the business, guiding decision making through strong business partnership and insightful, innovative analysis. We are seeking forward thinking, results oriented individuals who thrive in a fast paced environment and can improve processes to help the company scale with growth.

F.S Analyst

We are looking for forward thinking, goal oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast paced environment and thrive in building and improving processes that will allow the company to scale with growth. This role primary responsibilities will be in expense and headcount management, month end/quarter end management reporting with stakeholders globally, partnering across F.S, Finance Data Office, and Controllership.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and update financial models to support key business decisions
• Assist in preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting
• Conduct variance analysis for month end and quarter end financial close.
• Analyse historical and current financial data for trends, run rates, opportunities and risks
• Collaborate with other stakeholders to gather data for insights and accuracy
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting process by working across stakeholders.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to improve existing financial processes, reporting and data collection methods.
• Leverage across software, platforms and tools to simplify and automate current reporting and tasks.
• Document financial procedures and best practices to ensure consistency and knowledge transfer.

Technical Skills

• University Degree in Finance, or relevant disciplines.
• At least 1-2 years of post qualification experience in an FP&A, Finance & Strategy, Accounting function of a multinational entity.
• Strong skills in MS Excel, Hyperion, Smartview and Google Suite. Experience with SQL and snowflake a plus.
• Data extraction, analysis and presentation; Tableau or other data visualization a plus.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Track record of successful and quantifiable process improvement projects.

Non Technical Skills

• Thrives in an environment of collaboration/teamwork but is also a self starter, requiring limited guidance
• Get it Done attitude
• Ability to deal with a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity
• Ability to establish and manage stakeholder relationships
• Clear, concise and professional communications - written & verbal; interpersonal skills
• Emotional Intelligence, empathetic mindset and humility to create space for learning
• Sharp attention to details
• Strong desire to process improve and drive efficiencies