Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Analyst

The successful Senior Analyst will provide direct support to the finance team and work with field and headquarters leaders on financial analysis to facilitate decision making. The Senior Analyst will also be responsible for enhancing the design and assist the budgeting and forecasting processes for the US Automotive Parts Group (APG). This includes working with all levels of management to ensure budgeting and forecasting is conducted via a uniform process.

Responsibilities

• Identify and summarize key drivers of financial performance on a consolidated and department level.
• Identify notable trends and variances within the financial results
• Expense management, risk analysis and mitigation.
• Actively monitor expense levers and cost controls required to maintain profitability and achieve budgeted profit targets.
• Interface with Business Leaders to inform strategic inputs to financial models
• Preparation of regular and special budget reports.
• Execute on Ad-Hoc reporting and analysis
• Assist in the creation and development of monthly and quarterly reports
• Provide peer review support on reporting packs to insure accuracy.
• Keep Team Leader / Department Leader apprised of progress on key work items.
• Be a subject-matter-expertise on TM1 while developing and enhancing its current capabilities to better integrate with the US APG's budgeting and forecasting processes.
• This includes, but is not limited to, defining the integration roll-out of budgeting and forecasting from APG HQ to field operations
• Exploring TMI integration with other financial and business intelligence tools (such as Qlik, OBIEE, COGNOS, etc.) and 3rd party partners (XL Group, RL Fisher, etc.).
• Improve the overall reporting, visualization and comprehension of the budget and forecast.
• Developing and enhancing TM1 training for HQ and field managers.
• Providing monthly support for budgeting and forecasting reports for all levels of US APG management.

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