Financial Analyst
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About this role
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The Experience:
The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team is responsible for delivering financial predictability and control, business accountability, and insights to optimize decisions, resources and shareholder success. We are looking for a forward-thinking, results-oriented individual who will succeed in a fast-paced environment, thrive in leading teams, and improve processes that will allow the company to scale with growth!
This role will support the Real Estate and Workplace Services, Prospect to Cash, and Procurement teams through financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and decision support for the respective leadership teams. This individual will be an integral player in important organization-wide initiatives and projects.
What You'll Actually Be Doing:
- Support consolidated close and forecasts (monthly and quarterly forecasts; annual plan) and prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting, analyzing financial results, and distilling key trends
- Continue to drive process improvement and scalability by developing AI tool assisted repeatable business, operational, and financial processes widely understood by all key stakeholders
- Build trusted relationships with business partners to support strategic decision-making through insightful, thoughtful analysis that is deeply grounded in data and metrics
- Work cross-functionally with Finance & Strategy, Accounting, and other business partners as necessary, to ensure alignment and expense accuracy
- Assist in analysis and presentation of strategic materials for key management meetings
- Deliver insights that influence business leaders to better understand and manage critical metrics.
- Troubleshoot operational issues as they surface; propose changes to systems/ processes to fix root causes.
- Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as needed
You're our Person If...
- BA/BS degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the Core Competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
- A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in FP&A/finance, accounting, consulting, or analytic roles
- Experience building financial and decision support models, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Intellectual curiosity, fueled by a proactive approach to continuously expand one’s skillset
- Highly motivated, self-aware, collaborative, and responsive
- Great teammate able to lead and work effectively at all levels of an organization.
- Experience with the following systems: Hyperion, Workday, Tableau, Google suite, or other financial and data visualization tools is a plus
This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week.