Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Role Description

The Senior Financial Analyst, supporting the Finance and Legal orgs, is a cross-functional role acting as the primary business partner for these teams - driving budgeting, forecasting, headcount management and expense tracking. The ideal candidate has a strong attention to detail, while still being able to understand the big picture, a penchant for process improvement, and a desire to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day business partnering support for the Finance and Legal Teams, including Budget management and spend approval, monthly variance reporting, and strategic guidance to encourage budget utilization and accuracy.
• Drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast for the Finance and Legal Teams — gathering budget inputs and helping budget owners meet their strategic goals within their budget envelope.
• Produce accruals for the Finance and Legal Teams on a monthly basis.
• Support ad-hoc FP&A projects and deliverables, including support of short- and long-range Planning cycles.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in a financial analyst role
• Robust analytical and modeling skills with a strong attention to detail
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, month end close and variance analysis; either through direct business partnership experience or experience with these responsibilities from a corporate consolidation perspective
• Experience or understand of accruals
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or a strong understanding of accruals.
• Knowledge of financial systems, such as Oracle
• Experience supporting G&A orgs (General and Admin: Finance, Legal, HR)

Compensation