Senior Financial Analyst, IT Finance

Job Description :

Senior Financial Analyst, IT Finance

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

This position is part of corporate FP&A team and is responsible for providing IT executive leadership with timely, high-quality, and accurate annual operating plans, long-term forecasts, and quarterly revisions. Reporting to the Manager, IT Finance, this individual is expected to lead the business analysis, forecasting, and planning processes, but also expected to provide insights and information to help IT executive leadership make better business decisions. This individual will be responsible for building and enhancing IT financial models, reporting tools, and dashboards to improve accuracy, efficiency, and overall visibility of financial data.

• Accurately forecast and report IT financial results on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis utilizing performance management software. Provide analysis and insight of current or forecasted results and the go-forward impact on the business and financials.
• Provide variance analysis, including performance to budget / forecast, identification of gaps, trends, and opportunities within IT spend, and recommend possible course corrections, where needed, to functional department heads and executive leadership.
• Develop a deep knowledge of the IT spend by engaging with the business areas as a partner in thoughtful conversations about their specific areas of operation and planning assumptions.
• Organize financial information in an understandable and compelling way, demonstrating strong design acumen and expertise in Excel and PowerPoint techniques. Develop mock-ups quickly and iteratively for management presentations, reports, and dashboards.
• Manipulate and analyze large transactional data sets, interpret, and summarize the data for metrics reporting and business insights highlighting trends and anomalies for executive management.
• Identify and recommend process improvements that significantly reduce workloads and reporting redundancies.
• Use data analytics to draw conclusions and present financial and operational insights to support timely executive level decision-making.
• Serve as a resource to team members and applicable stakeholders on ad-hoc financial analysis assignments and projects.
• Provide oversight and assist as needed for the invoicing / billing process for area of responsibility - including but not limited to accurate coding to GL, appropriate business unit allocations, and processing in a timely manner each month.
• Assist in development and implementation of change management activities related to system implementations, planning workflow and automation of reporting.

Applicable to all employees of Globe Life & Accident and its subsidiaries :

Required Skills

Required Knowledge & Experience

Location : 3700 S. Stonebridge Dr., McKinney, Texas