Financial Analyst

Assist the SVP Finance in leading and managing the annual financial budgeting processes. Partner with the SVP Finance to provide comprehensive and timely analytical responses to business partners, especially concerning financial performance, risk management, guiding business decisions, and future projections. Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A processes with systematic variance analysis, forecasting, and scenario planning. Familiarity with accounting principles and practices to ensure consistency and accuracy in financial reporting. Serve as the critical partner to the Operations team in bringing analytics to management of the company, – key areas include field team productivity, recruiting, staffing, and all internal operations. Evaluate and analyze strategic opportunities, build complex defensible models to support decision-making, improve cross-functional processes, systems, and automation. Develop timely and accurate financial reports and analysis on performance, financial trends, and budgets in order to assist the SVP Finance , CFO, COO, CEO, and Board of Directors . Evaluate and advise on the impact of the introduction of new programs/strategies. Provide strategic financial input and leadership on decision making issues affecting the organization; i.e., evaluation of potential alliances, acquisitions and/or mergers. Provide technical financial advice and knowledge to others within and outside of the financial function. The ability to interface with operators with limited financial acumen is critical. Continual improvement of the forecasting and budgeting process through education of department managers on financial issues impacting department budgets. Ability to work with disparate systems and incomplete data to create meaningful reports and analytics.