Specific responsibilities include:
• Reconcile actuals vs prior forecast/budget/prior year and provide variance analysis to explain performance.
• Partner with FP&A Business Strategy teams to manage cost center budgets, analyze forecast variances, and assess the financial impact for business decisions.
• Manage Ad Hoc analysis and financial data requests as needed, generating insights
• Review and prepare journal entries as needed. Basic accounting knowledge required to perform the task.
• Support month-end and quarter-end close activities by ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial results.
• Demonstrate and maintain high standards of accountability to deliver superior quality financial information on timely basis to business FP&A.
• Build strong relationships with extended teams to enable the flow of information and knowledge sharing.
• Ability to lead discussions and challenge assumptions constructively.
• Support development of systems, tools, and processes to facilitate efficient and accurate forecasting and analysis.
• Drive meaningful process improvements and automation. Collaborate across boundaries and share best practices with other FP&A teams.
Basic qualifications
• At least 3-4 years’ experience in forecasting, reporting and analysis.
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills
• Strong proficiency in excel and other data analysis techniques. Demonstrated experience in financial modelling.
• Critical thinker and strong problem solver with excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to frame issues, articulate findings and present optimal solutions.
• Proven ability to build confidence and trust with department members and external business partners.
• Experience working accurately and efficiently with high volumes of data under strict deadlines.
• Motivated by challenging, high-energy environment.
• Strong working knowledge of financial software packages and Microsoft Office suite.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economy and Accounting preferred
Preferred Qualifications
• FP&A experience highly desirable
• Knowledge of financial software packages SAP, Power Platform (Power BI, Query, Tableau, etc)