Sr. Financial Analyst - Global Consumer Brand - $80,000-100,000 base
The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing multiple financial analysis projects at the same time. You will be responsible for leading and executing effective long-range planning and annual revenue / expense budgeting with the executive team, finance team, and business leads.
This role is for someone who is a super strong communicator and a go-getter! You will have high visibility to leadership and will have the opportunity to lead a variety of projects.
This is not only a financial planning and reporting role, but a strategic support position .
Responsibilities
- Outputs will include : the annual plan, weekly / monthly / quarterly forecasting, financial reporting (actual vs. budget, trend) and ROI analysis on business initiatives.
- Maintain various planning scenarios and track results against each for management and investors.
- Consistently maintain ownership for the generation and delivery of recurring and non-recurring reports and analyses including, but not limited to functional / department actual vs.
budget reporting and variance analysis, forecast vs. budget, profitability analysis by initiatives, and industry benchmarking.
- Ensure consistency of / reconcile financial and operational data between management reports and GAAP-based general ledger reports.
- Maintain constant partnership with stakeholders to ensure strategic and tactical initiatives are aligned cross-functionally and with corporate goals.
- Create financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives.
- Provide product managers with finance-based decision support for implementing new as well as maintaining existing products and processes.
This includes ongoing development and maintenance of KPI metrics and reports.
Prepare presentation materials for Board of Directors, management and total company consumption regarding projected business results.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting.
- 2-3+ years of experience in retail, manufacturing, or a consumer goods brand.
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookup functions, cell linking / referencing) and PowerPoint.
- Be extremely analytical and quantitative and very comfortable building advanced spreadsheet models.
- Knowledge of accounting, including understanding the relationship of the 3 financial statements.
- Ability to meet deadlines quickly and accurately, multi-task and work well under pressure with changing priorities. Comfortable taking initiative and working independently to achieve successful results.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to compose and execute presentations for senior management.
Please submit a resume for consideration.