Senior Financial Analyst (Santa Clara)

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Your Day At Ntt Data

The senior financial analyst is a critical role in the global financial planning and analysis (fpa) team. The senior financial analyst is an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for gathering and analyzing complex financial data to facilitate decision making and provide guidance to relevant business stakeholders within the business. The senior financial analyst will serve as a key member of the finance department with frequent exposure to senior management and various groups across the company to drive strategy across departments. The senior financial analyst is a business partner for key operational stakeholders representing the opex group.

Drive the rolling forecast, annual budgeting, and long-term forecasting analytics activities for a targeted segment on behalf of the global financial planning and analysis (fpa) function in finance. Lead efforts to capture forecasting assumptions and leverage them to produce short- and long-range financial projections including operational costs.

This role makes financial recommendations based on the data they have gathered and analyzed, including information regarding past company performance against set metrics and cost management.

What You'll Be Doing

Essential duties & responsibilities

• Extracts data from financial reports to conduct financial and statistical analysis and identifies financial discrepancies and recommends appropriate solutions.
• Drives and supports system enhancements and testing in financial planning platforms (i.e. hyperion, sap, power bi, other)
• Drives and develops reporting enhancements within different reporting platforms (i.e. power bi, hyperion, other)
• Collaborates with other finance groups to collect necessary budgeting and forecasting inputs, customer contract details and actual cost activity.
• Prepares various monthly actual vs. budget (vs. forecast) reports and produces variance analyses for assigned departments; effectively communicating key
• Monitors and reports on key financial and operational metrics for targeted department
• Develops business partner relationship with assigned operational leader(s) within targeted department(s).
• Supports the process of updating and / or enhance reporting templates and tools to capture critical financial assumptions.
• Identifies risks, opportunities, and other areas to improve business results.
• Updates and roll-forward tools and templates that support capital planning processes.
• Participates in user testing to deploy system enhancements across key financial planning platforms.
• Develops business partner relationship with assigned operational leader(s) within targeted department(s).
• Collaborates with global financial planning and analysis (fpa) team to support transition to global (fpa) structure.
• Extracts data from financial reports to conduct financial and statistical analysis and identifies financial discrepancies and recommends appropriate solutions.
• Contributes to the monitoring and controlling of expenditure by approving or denying requisitions based on whether the items are in budget.
• Prepares a variety of financial reports based on the analysis results.
• Conducts presentations related to findings and provides recommendations to the relevant internal stakeholders.
• Researches and analyzes costs of projects, departments and future ventures to provide information and insights about expenses and determine profitability margins.
• Conducts budget and expense analysis and reports on variances ensuring that the projected budget is met and assists with cost reduction initiatives.
• Reconciles and reviews monthly account analysis for balance sheet accounts.
• Ensures budget and forecast variances are analyzed and recommendations are made to correct or improve company performance.
• Assists with input into the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
• Ensures key pieces of analysis are performed on areas of risk or opportunity within the business and that the financial levers are understood and communicated to the business together with clear recommendations.
• Continuously reviews business initiatives to ensure that they meet the required profitability expectations.
• Identifies cost management opportunities (processes or expenses) for ensuring improved profitability and sustainable returns for the business.
• Performs any other relevant task as assigned by the management team.
• Performs other duties and adhoc analytics as assigned.
• Calculate and track global cost allocations to different regions.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Education & Experience

Physical Requirements

This is a remote position that requires reliable internet connection and electricity. A monthly stipend is provided to cover expenses associated with working remotely and use of a personal mobile device, if applicable.

ntt global data centers americas, inc. offers competitive compensation based on experience, education, and location. Base salary for this position is $107,400.00 - $155,700.00.

All regular full-time employees are eligible for an annual bonus; payout is dependent upon individual and company performance.

Employees receive paid time-off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, life and supplemental insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending account, and 401k retirement plan to create a rich total rewards package.

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about ntt data

ntt data is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the fortune global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in r&