Senior Financial Analyst

Note : APA operates on a 37.5-hour work week with one hour lunch breaks each day. APA sets salaries based on several considerations, including years of relevant experience, level of education, and previous staff and / or governance experience at APA.

This position provides financial tracking, reporting, and analysis support for the Director of Business & Planning. The position works closely with Finance, ITS, and various departments within APA Publishing.

This position will work closely with the Director to provide sales and financial reports to various departments. This position will work closely with the various departments within APA Publishing to create and submit the APA Publishing budget.

This role will also be responsible for presenting financial data to key stakeholders and the Publishing Management Team.

Education and Experience Required :

• Bachelor’s degree required preferably in business administration, accounting, finance
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in data gathering / analysis budgeting / finance, and / or business analysis
• Strong organizational and communication skills are essential, as you will be tasked with regularly communicating financial results and financial variances / metrics to senior management and must be able to articulate the key business metrics / drivers.

Computer Skills Required :

• Advanced Excel spreadsheet capabilities
• Intermediate GL software skills with a package such as Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or Navigator preferred
• Intermediate PowerPoint skills
• 1-2 years of experience writing / modifying queries and generating reports out of Salesforce.
• 1-2 years of experience in JIRA or other project management software

Responsibilities :

• Assists in preparing a monthly financial package for APA Publishing management reporting in year-to-date revenue vs prior year and budget, as well as documenting key take-aways from the financial report.
• Prepare department specific monthly financial reporting to various heads of departments; review and research all inaccuracies and adjust, as necessary.
• Gather data from various systems and generate reports based on KPI’s to allow senior management to make strategic decisions.
• Consolidates information from APA Books e-vendors, PsycBOOKS database and print sales to calculate the royalty payouts for authors.

Ensures that they are accurately distributed and processed.

• Assist in the forecasting of revenue and expenses semiannually for APA Publishing. Ensure that all data is provided back to Finance team and verify that all information is reflected accurately in Bi360, a budgeting tool.
• Assist with compiling the yearly budget for APA Publishing.
• Manage new technology projects using the Agile framework, in support of APA Publishing. Creates business cases on new initiatives and obtains approvals from stakeholders.

Works with the product owner and developers to advance the priorities of the PUBS team.

Assists in putting together annual commission plans for eligible sales team members. Processes commission contracts through approval process.

Tracks all agreements and ensures that renewal of contracts on a yearly basis.

• Assist in the annual database pricing schedules for databases.
• Manage all processes related to contracts, including but not limited to overseeing the approval process and uploading to the legal database.
• Provides various ad hoc reporting as required, including but not limited to sales reports by product, by region, by country, etc.

Works across APA Books, Sales, and Digital Solutions departments to collect data from various sources, manipulate that data into a digestible format, and provide the reporting that was required to make strategic decisions.