Senior Global Fp&a Specialist

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**The Senior Global Financial Specialist is a business partner for key operational stakeholders representing the Global FP&A - Revenue team.**
**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 operational costs.**:
**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.**:
**Key responsibilities**:

- Support development, implementation, maintenance and optimization of standardized FP&A processes, methodologies, and best practices across all FP&A teams
- Financial business partner for key operational stakeholders representing the Global FP&A - Revenue team (support adhoc analyses, special projects, etc.)
- Drive and Support monthly closing activities, rolling forecast, annual budgeting and other Revenue related tasks
- Prepare various monthly actual vs. budget (vs. forecast) reports and produce variance analyses for assigned departments; effectively communicating key takeaways
- Lead efforts to capture forecasting assumptions and leverage them to produce short and long range financial projections incl. risk/ opportunity assessment
- 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)
- Monitor and report on key financial and operational metrics for targeted department
- Collaborate with other finance groups to collect necessary budgeting and forecasting inputs, customer contract details and actual cost activity.
- Develop business partner relationship with assigned operational leader(s) within targeted department(s).
- 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 Revenue and Bookings 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)
- Extracts data from financial reports to conduct financial and statistical analysis and identifies financial discrepancies and recommends appropriate solutions.
- Prepares a variety of financial reports based on the analysis results.
- Conducts presentations related to findings and provides recommendations to the relevant internal stakeholders.
- Conducts Actuals vs Budget vs Forecast analysis and reports on variances ensuring that the projected budget is met and assists with revenue recovery initiatives.
- 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 revenue management opportunities (processes or initiatives) 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.

**To thrive in this role, you need to have**:

- Experience in managing budget related requirements within a formal planning platform (Hyperion, SAP, etc.) required
- Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel required (must be able to use lookups, pivot tables, Power BI, Power Query and other advanced functionality)
- 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