Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Finance
Interstate Batteries
Dallas, TX, United States
Full-time
Purpose of Job :
The Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Finance supports the execution of the plan, forecast, and financial reporting and analysis for the Commercial P&L.
This role specializes in direct sales support, gross profit reporting and analytics and business initiative evaluation. This role is a member of the Commercial Finance team, reporting to the Manager, Commercial Finance.
Job Components :
- Provide executive management with accurate reporting that management can use to measure the monthly / annual progress of the Commercial business
- Contribute to the annual financial planning cycle by planning revenue and consolidating cost to present the annual plan for distributor-facing financials to management
- Directly partner with Commercial teams (Sales, Marketing, and eCommerce) to manage P&L expectations to plan and forecasts
- Provide timely and accurate periodic reporting of actual performance versus planned / forecast expectations and prior year performance for customer and distributor related profitability support
- Work to identify key risks and opportunities to plan and / or forecasts and prepare monthly gross profit forecast
- Periodic updates to 5-year long range plan
- Assist with special projects as needed
Qualifications :
- Bachelor of Finance, Accounting, or Economics required
- 3+ years of professional finance experience preferred
- Collaborative approach with internal finance partners and customers
- Strong communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail and an investigative nature
- Self-starter with demonstrated ability to work independently but also capable of working in a team environment
- Strong interpersonal, customer service, telephone, verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient in the utilization of MS products (Excel, Word, PPT, and Outlook)
- Experience with SAP is preferred
- Experience with Tableau, Power BI and Alteryx and working with large data sets is preferred
30+ days ago