Financial Analyst & Consultant

Provides senior management with technical reporting, financial analysis and consulting support for all aspects of administrative expense performance. Serves as Hyperion planning business owner for department and primary point of contact for organization. Develops reports and provides controllership of performance on annual budget development and financial forecasting processes.

Provide controllership of Enterprise administrative expense performance by monitoring and evaluating results across business entities
Conduct financial analysis of operational budgets and actual performance using business and financial modeling
Develop and maintain monthly variance reporting summaries and tools to provide insight into drivers of operational performance to support leadership communications
Serve as Hyperion planning application business owner in support of annual budget development, monthly and quarterly re-projection processes, and integration of administrative expense data into the Hyperion network
Manage and monitor aspects of monthly budget controllership, including reconciliation, budget adjustments, position transfers, chargebacks, and alignment with related systems
Support development, controllership and reporting of annual consolidated administrative expense budget across financial systems
Support development of leadership reporting material and provide business insight into drivers of operational performance
Serve as primary point of contact and develop consultative relationships with designated functional areas in budget analysis, development, controllership and technical support

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in related area or equivalent work experience
5+ years of directly related work experience, including financial analysis and consulting, budget development and expense controllership
Strong knowledge of and experience with financial systems and applications, including Hyperion planning; Web Analysis; SmartView; cost allocation methodologies
Strong experience working collaboratively with cross- functional mid-level management.
Analytic research skills
Demonstrates working knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis and reporting (e.g. controllership.)
Extensive knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques, and roles and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients within and outside own area (e.g. identifies alternative solutions and associated pros and cons.)
Demonstrates working ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material (e.g., discusses key criteria necessary for valid financial analysis).
Extensive knowledge in the ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization (e.g. presents ideas, suggestions or concepts to business or functional managers.)
Demonstrates working knowledge of finance, financial methods, tools and strategies employed by private and public corporations (e.g., recognizes and analyzes problems with financial methods and procedures).
Demonstrates working knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques and techniques for recognizing, anticipating and resolving organizational, operational or process problems (e.g., utilizes procedures for monitoring problem resolution and providing feedback to customer).