Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

As a Financial Analyst, you will be a key member of the Business Unit Finance team and have primary responsibilities for performing all FP&A related activities including budgeting, management / other reporting, variance analysis, strategic and long-range planning, predicting revenue / costs, forecasting, and partnering with operations planning and other teams to define business targets.

What You'll Be Doing :

• Partner with business unit leaders and work proactively with management to develop FP&A solutions to ensure performance targets are met or exceeded within the business unit
• Support the strategic business planning process, providing essential analysis on key KPIs & preparing & driving quarterly forecasting & annual budget reporting
• Support processes to measure and report on performance relative to KPIs, including variance analysis
• Validate key insights on management reports
• Oversee standard business performance reports with profitability, cost overrun, and productivity metrics
• Analyze the operational cashflow of the business through working capital review and variance to cash flow projections & review of capital projects.
• Support the monthly forecast process and price / cost analysis. Monitoring the implementation of financial plans to support business growth, performing risk assessments, and making adjustments as needed. Provide monthly & quarterly commentary & information on the performance of the business unit
• Collaborate with the Controllership team assisting during the monthly closing cycle & providing support during both external & internal audit processes
• Perform division-level accounting tasks during month end closing such as revenue recognition, lower of cost or net realizable value, bad debt, outbound freight accrual, inventory variance capitalization, fixed cost in inventory, etc
• Ability to transform large data sets to provide actionable insights
• Perform variance analysis and gather data to compare actual to budget and forecasts
• Identify variance concerns and help create appropriate action plans
• Support capital investment analysis, projecting returns to validate business cases

This position is located in our Charlotte, NC (Uptown Area) Office

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Education Required : Possess Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent in professional accounting / finance qualification

Education Preferred : MBA or MACC, as well as relevant certifications such as CPA, CMA, or CFA

This is a progression position and level will be based on candidate experience and business needs.