Senior Financial Analyst

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The Senior Financial Analyst is a business partner for key operational stakeholders representing the Consolidation group.

Drive the rolling forecast, annual budgeting, and long-term forecasting analytics activities for a targeted segment on behalf of the Global Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function in Finance. Lead efforts to capture forecasting assumptions and leverage them to produce short
- and long-range financial projections including but not limited to bookings, revenue, headcount, operational costs and capital expenditure.

This role makes financial recommendations based on the data they have gathered and analyzed, including information regarding past company performance against set metrics and cost management.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Extracts data from financial reports to conduct financial and statistical analysis and identifies financial discrepancies and recommends appropriate solutions.
- Drive and support system enhancements and testing in financial planning platforms (i.e. Hyperion, SAP, Power BI, other)
- Drive and develop reporting enhancements within different reporting platforms (i.e. Power BI, Hyperion, other)
- Collaborate with other finance groups to collect necessary budgeting and forecasting inputs, customer contract details and actual cost activity.
- Prepare various monthly actual vs. budget (vs. forecast) reports and produce variance analyses for assigned departments; effectively communicating key
- Monitor and report on key financial and operational metrics for targeted department
- Support the process of updating and/or enhance reporting templates and tools to capture critical financial assumptions
- Identify risks, opportunities, and other areas to improve business results
- Update and roll-forward tools and templates that support capital planning processes.
- Participate in user testing to deploy system enhancements across key financial planning platforms
- Develop business partner relationship with assigned operational leader(s) within targeted department(s)
- Collaborate with Global Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team to support transition to global (FP&A) structure
- Extracts data from financial reports to conduct financial and statistical analysis and identifies financial discrepancies and recommends appropriate solutions.
- Contributes to the monitoring and controlling of expenditure by approving or denying requisitions based on whether the items are in budget.
- Prepares a variety of financial reports based on the analysis results.
- Conducts presentations related to findings and provides recommendations to the relevant internal stakeholders.
- Researches and analyzes costs of projects, departments and future ventures to provide information and insights about expenses and determine profitability margins.
- Conducts budget and expense analysis and reports on variances ensuring that the projected budget is met and assists with cost reduction initiatives.
- Reconciles and reviews monthly account analysis for balance sheet accounts.
- Ensures budget and forecast variances are analyzed and recommendations are made to correct or improve company performance.
- Assists with input into the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
- Ensures key pieces of analysis are performed on areas of risk or opportunity within the business and that the financial levers are understood and communicated to the business together with clear recommendations.
- Continuously reviews business initiatives to ensure that they meet the required profitability expectations.
- Identifies cost management opportunities (processes or expenses) for ensuring improved profitability and sustainable returns for the business.
- Performs any other relevant task as assigned by the management team.
- Performs other duties and adhoc analytics as assigned.

**Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- Demonstrates excellent attention to detail and maintains high quality of work.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill.
- Display excellent planning and organizing ability.
- Deadline driven with ability to cope with stressful situations.
- Able to deal with different individuals at all levels in the organization.
- Takes own initiative and have a solutions-orientated approach.
- Proactive approach with the ability to think ahead in a fast-paced environment.
- Advanced analytical skills, and an ability to understand underlying business drivers and provide actionable insights based on analysis.
- Advanced knowledge and prior exposure to international entities, foreign currency and inter-company transactions.
- Applies ad