The Financial Analyst is responsible for supporting a corporate technology alliance function, working closely with business leaders and their leadership teams. This role assists the leaders in the decision making process, providing insightful and action oriented financial analysis, applying best practices, and new perspectives to solve complex problems. They will support implementation and execution of driver-based forecasting and will help define and lead cost efficiency initiatives in partnership with business leaders. This person will interact with leadership to deliver financial information in a concise and meaningful manner.
This role reports to the Senior Director of Finance - Corporate Technology and will be a hybrid workplace, with three days in-office and two days remotely per week. The role will report to our Alpharetta, GA location for in-office days. What You'll Do:
Conduct moderately complex financial analyses and reports for department management. Prepare and analyzes major financial forecasts. May be assigned analyses in support of organizations annual budget process, expense/service fee/staffing forecasts, or statistical reporting.
Provide proactive insightful financial analysis to enable the BU/COE to reach its short- and long-term strategic and financial objectives.
Interface with senior management to deliver financial information in a concise and meaningful manner to foster effective decision making such as analysis of business trends/scenarios and key drivers, development of management reporting to analyze monthly financial and operating results and key metrics.
Participate in value-added planning, budgeting and forecasting activities.
Analyze and track process improvement initiatives.
Analyze and driving results for customer, product and/or business unit profitability.
Work closely with the Management and Technology teams to track pipeline opportunities and prepare accurate forecasts.
What Experience You Need:
Bachelor's degree in Finance or a related business discipline
1-4 years of experience in a finance-related capacity
Strong Excel skills (Modeling, Formulas, Tables, among others)
Financial systems knowledge in either Oracle Hyperion Planning / Essbase, SAP, OBIEE, Business Warehouse/ BPC
Basic knowledge in accounting GAAP principles (Accrual base accounting, cost amortization, expense recognition)
Experience with month-end deliverables
What Could Set You Apart:
Experience in Cloud-based IT environments, software
Master's degree or Finance/Accounting-related certifications
Technology Finance experience including preparation and presentation of complex business cases
Experience with visualization tools i.e. Tableau & Spotfire
Experience with leadership communication - digesting, compiling, and presenting data