Financial Analyst - 21015 - Foster McKay : Job Details

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. Â The Senior Financial Analyst is a key role in the Finance Department, responsible for gleaning insights from business data and through business interaction to ultimately guide decision-making of the US business' senior leadership teams.This position will ensure timely, accurate and insightful information delivery to our senior business partners. Your excellent business acumen and strong communication and presentation skills will allow you to glean information from a complex business environment and synthesize relevant key facts and trends that help drive decision-making. Using your financial expertise, you will ensure the accuracy and integrity of your assigned segment's P&L and trade working capital.What would I be doing?Analyze performance of business segment ensuring integrity, timeliness, and usefulness of analysisIn-depth data modeling and analyses gathering key drivers and providing insights to our business partnersPartner with the business to create and validate budgets and forecasts using Workday Adaptive Planning. Create meaningful and accurate presentations for review with senior managementPrepare, review and understand monthly volume, sales, cost, price, mix, and profitability results and analysis, comparing and analyzing to plan and prior year levels while understanding and explaining movements between periodsUnderstand linkages between internal management reporting and group reporting. Ensure alignment on reportingCreate and review fixed & variable cost overviews and commentary, highlighting trends for cost center ownersRegularly review product inventory levels and product standard costs to ensure proper inventory valuationMonitor FTE development of assigned business segment and ensure all personnel expenses are properly accounted forTogether with business partners, drive revenue and CAPEX internal orders to completion and ensure timely recognition of revenues/profits and capitalization of underlying assets. Ensure depreciation expenses are captured timely and accuratelyTake data quality issues seriously and effect change where necessary. Adopt responsibility for system and process issues affecting financials and engage in optimization effortsFulfill business segment lead finance position performing executive level preparation and presentation of data, drawing conclusions and providing periodic outlooks, annual budgets and annual strategyPrepare and lead monthly meetings with business partners to review results. Compare actuals to prior year and budget etc., with independent follow up on open items and requestsSupport preparation of monthly highlights summary for CEO, CFO and board members on relevant topicsWork within schedules set by annual planning team to align on commitment from business segment, while meeting or exceeding all deadlinesDuring annual budget cycle, understand and communicate content requirements and tools used to business segment managers, ensuring accuracy and consistencyDevelop annual view of sales volumes, price/cost recovery, productivity savings and other key assumptions and events and advise on impact to strategy, plan and outlooksProfessionally prepare annual budget presentations for CFO and Executive Committee, including key assumptions, action items and events, and bridges from actual to planPartner with the business to create phasing of annual budgets to ensure credible plan vs. actual comparisonsProvide systems expertise and training to department and business partners increasing understanding of the content, source and flow of informationDevelop solid understanding of information flow into/out of SAP, BW, and local reporting solutionsProvide training for FiCo and business segments on the use and understanding of Tableau/SAP Analytic Cloud reportsDeliver training as needed to department and business partners on planning tools, BW, etc.Participate in testing & certification of changes made to local SAP systemParticipate in implementation of budget tools and other technical aids to complete the budget processPrepare ad-hoc reporting and analysis for business segmentPrepare and validate reports as requested ensuring fit with existing data provided and company guidelinesChampion and implement change within the team and business partnersGather requirements and act as a change manager for new or enhancements to existing reporting solutionsWhat would make me qualified?â ¢ 6+ years financial experience with focus on delivering financial results, forecasts, plans and strategy with clear analysis and concise commentaryâ ¢ Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting requiredâ ¢ MBA and/or CPA highly desirableâ ¢ Strong business acumen, experience bringing insightful commentary to numbers, recognition of trendsâ ¢ Excellent understanding of accounting mechanisms/cost accounting, preferably in a larger industrial companyâ ¢ In-depth knowledge of ERP systems and business information systems (SAP ERP/SAP Business Warehouse)â ¢ In-depth knowledge of Excel (knowledge of Power Query and PowerPivot desirable), PowerPoint (Think Cell), and Dashboarding tools (Tableau and/or SAP Analytics Cloud)â ¢ Solid knowledge of, and experience with, cloud-based planning software (Workday Adaptive Planning or Anaplan)â ¢ Working knowledge of SQL and SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) desirable#J-18808-Ljbffr