Senior Financial Analyst 4/27/2016
Category: Finance & Accounting
Job Type: Direct hire
Veriant Solutions is currently looking to fill an immediate need for a Senior Financial Analyst in the product business planning department of one of our best clients.
This role is meant for a problem solver; someone who is logical and always wants to make things better, faster, more efficient. If you are the type of person who finds patterns in everything and is always looking for short cuts to avoid tedious work, then this is the opportunity for you!
What You’ll Do:
In this position, you will support the residential and business product teams in all matters related to budget management. You will act as the liaison between the various business operations groups impacted by budget allocations. On a day to day basis, you can expect to:
- Prepare, refine, review budget and forecast models, track purchase orders, and manage accruals for product roadmap initiatives.
- Assist in the refinement & implementation of budget and forecast models.
- Manage the forecast and budget process for expense and capital, and ensure all procedures and activities comply with corporate guidelines
- Manage the month end close review, ensuring that accruals are accurate and complete.
- Provide input for the monthly review of expenses and capital to budget and forecast, and explain variances with operational analytics and insight.
- Manage the full cycle PO and CPR processes (creation, change, tracking, receipt and closure).
- Review product expenses to understand the variances both in trends and to budget and be prepared to present variances to leadership.
- Provides ROI support for capital initiatives and work with accounting to ensure proper accounting treatment for capital versus expense coding of initiatives.
- Identify potential problems with any aspects of the budget process and help to provide resolution.
Requirements
What You Bring:
You are an excel master who enjoys learning and picking up new skills. You are a planner by nature and love to outline steps and ultimately meet any objective. You have:
- 3- 5 years of experience in accounting or finance
- A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- Solid financial management skills including forecasting and budgeting planning
- Strong spreadsheet skills, with the ability to perform financial analyses and prepare business cases
- Ability to organize and structure financial models
- Ability to thoroughly test models and proactively identify solutions
- Ability to work with database administrators; understanding of how to find, extract, and analyze and interpret data
- Extensive experience with Excel (including pivot tables, VLOOKUP)
- Some accounting knowledge
- Understanding of cable/telecommunications industry (preferred)
- An MBA (preferred)