Senior Analyst Financial Planning and Analysis

Job Description

NSF is seeking a skilled Senior Analyst, FP&A to support our business unit leaders. Applicants should be comfortable collaborating with and presenting to the most senior levels of the organization, have a strong understanding of the P&L, possess the ability to multi-task and handle conflicting priorities, and have a strong work ethic.

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Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting Senior Operations Leadership by providing all business insight and ad-hoc requests as needed to support NSF's revenue generating divisions
• Must be comfortable presenting to Senior Leadership - requires the ability to read, interpret, and present management reports, as well as provide ongoing education as needed to increase business acumen
• Significant ownership tied to completion of the annual budget / strategy planning and quarterly forecast processes for business unit(s) - responsible for on-time completion and all supporting efforts
• Perform month-end close duties including analyzing operational metrics, providing, and interpreting monthly financial statements / business drivers, reclassing expenses as necessary, and collaborating with the General Ledger team
• Interpret variances to budget, forecast, and prior year
• Ownership of preparing presentations for Monthly Operating Reviews (MOR)
• Drive continuous improvement of analyses and processes to support business - gather feedback as necessary, and make enhancements to meet business needs, collaborate with team members
• Ability to dive into details as necessary to understand complex business problems fed by a variety of data sources, in a variety of local currencies
• Collaborate with the business / functions to establish common global Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Develop necessary business cases for any initiatives driven by the global business unit or function
• Follow consistent processes established within the Finance function, and NSF

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience analyzing and presenting business financials
• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Advanced excel skills - must be comfortable utilizing excel to aggregate and summarize large data sets in an efficient manner
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, highly comfortable communicating with senior levels of the organization
• Ability to present data in a meaningful way for team members, comfortable coaching others to improve financial / business acumen
• Ability to work independently and manage individual and sometimes conflicting timelines from a variety of business partners
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work onsite (Ann Arbor) an average of three days per week

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Oracle, Power BI, Salesforce, Planful, or Spotlight reporting

About Us

NSF is a growing global public health and safety organization. Our mission is to protect and improve human and planet health by enabling safe food, clean water and life-enhancing health technologies and products for millions of people around the world.

We do so by developing standards, testing, auditing, certifying, and providing advisory services to clients in the food, water, health sciences and consumer industries.

Our nearly 3,000 employees provide services in over 180 countries through many of our global offices, at our 35,000 client sites, from home offices and in state-of-the-art laboratories.

We're growing fast and expanding into new areas such as sustainability and digital. And that's where you come in. Come join a team that makes a difference in the world.

More information about NSF can be found at nsf.org

One of our core values is We Are One NSF. This means that while we're one team, we embrace the cultural, ethnic, language and demographic diversity that reflects the societies in which we live and work.

NSF is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.

About the Team

We are the guardians of NSF's assets. We are the keepers and providers of accurate and useful financial information which empowers careful and rational decision making.

We do this so NSF may better advance its public health and safety mission.