Analyst Financial Planning

Overview

The Senior Analyst will support the Technology business unit by providing oversight to financial reporting, ensuring integrity and accuracy of financial statements, and ensuring compliance with accounting requirements.

Role

• Monitors month-end close activity and acts as liaison with the shared service centre to drive accuracy of results and provide open communication link between the groups.

• Ensures a strong control environment by supporting, monitoring, and enforcing operational and SOX financial controls.

• Demonstrates appropriate understanding and working knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls.

• Completes monthly and quarterly deliverables to assist in analysis of actuals and forecast

• Prepares monthly reporting and analysis of financial results and proactively research and resolve financial inquiries and issues.

• Support various financial business cases, models, and standard templates ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review.

• Contributes to special projects and preforms various ad-hoc reporting or analysis as needed with a strong customer service focus.

Knowledge/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required.

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and current accounting concepts.

• Demonstrate business acumen, with strong organization skills and strategic orientation.

• High level of ownership, business acumen, and entrepreneurship.

• Demonstrate experience in data analytics and using insights to drive impact.

• Ability to follow up and follow through on time sensitive issues.

• Desire to collaborate with the team and build working relationships across teams and all levels of management.

• Ability to communicate effectively (both oral and written) and develop solid working relationships across multiple levels and organization boundaries.

• Previous experience in significant process improvements, with ability to prioritize and meet concurrent project deliverables.

• Advanced MS Office skills (primarily Excel, Access, and PowerPoint) and working knowledge of enterprise financial systems (e.g. Oracle/Hyperion, SAP).