Senior Analyst, Finance

Job Summary

This role's main responsibility is financial and commercial reporting, analysis, and general support for financial and commercial executive requirements.  It will focus heavily on streamlining and automating reporting, providing insightful analysis, and continually identifying opportunities for process and cost improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with operations leadership to understand variances across three distinct business units and provide actionable insights to both division and corporate leadership. Research, analyze and explain drivers of performance at the business unit and consolidated level.
• Prepare, review, and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual actual-to-budget/forecast variance analysis reports.
• Utilize analytical capabilities to identify margin improvement opportunities, cost drivers, and revenue trends specific to the Services operational model, and partner with business unit leaders to implement actional recommendations.
• Provide timely, insightful, and relevant analysis of consolidated financial results on a periodic and ad hoc basis.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support forecast, budgeting, scenario analysis and strategic decision-making.
• Prepare, review, and analyze Board of Directors, Monthly Business Review, and Monthly Forecast management presentations.
• Assist with coordination of the annual budget process and periodic forecasting.  Prepare, analyze, and consolidate financial projections.
• Develop and maintain division-specific KPI dashboards using tools such as Power BI or Tableau to provide real-time insights to leadership.
• Involvement in special projects as required for process improvement and drive cost down across the organization.
• Assist, as needed, with other projects, processes or tasks as assigned by the Director of Finance.

Required Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
5- 7 years related experience

Preferred Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
CGMA, CMA and/or CPA desireable
8-11 years related experience

Other Preferred Skills, License & Certificates

Strong analytical and computer skills required. Excel super user (pivot tables, V-Lookups, macros, ability to manage large amounts of data). High level proficiency with other Microsoft Office applications.
Experience and comfort with working with IT financial systems required.  A high degree of knowledge of all Southwire IT financial systems a plus.
Confidentiality in handling sensitive financial information.
Highly motivated self-starter with good organizational skills to meet tight deadlines and to perform in a fast-paced environment.
Interact closely with management and the ability to provide recommendations for process improvement.
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all levels of personnel across various functions.
Ability to gather information and review assumptions for logic and reasonableness.
Capable of working in a timeline driven environment while providing accurate information.
Flexibility to work extended hours as required to meet deadlines.
Understand the use and application of Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

Travel

None

Working Conditions

Office

Hybrid (2-3 days a week On-Site)

Competencies

Skills