Financial Analyst
Skills
Accounting SoftwareAd Hoc ReportingCash Flow ForecastingExpense AnalysisFinancial ForecastingFinancial ModelingMargin Analysis
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, economics, or finance
- MBA in business, management, or finance preferred
- 5+ years of relevant experience in finance, financial modeling, or accounting
- Experience with Sage accounting software
- GAAP knowledge
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Office including Excel, PowerPoint, and Office Suite
- Knowledge of financial modeling software programs
Day to day
- Supports business unit general manager and senior-level directors/managers
- Serves as finance lead for assigned business unit
- Compiles and analyzes all financial information
- Works with project team on status updates and reports
- Generates internal reports and project tracking
- Conducts project margin and expense analysis
- Assists in preparation of annual budgets and forecasts
- Researches and synthesizes data from multiple sources
- Supports strategic planning process
- Prepares financial and business-related analysis and research
- Analyzes trends in revenue, expense, and capital expenditures
- Prepares consolidated forecasts and budgets
- Refines and improves current reporting and analysis
- Performs month-end review of results
- Assists in revenue, expense, and cash flow projections
- Analyzes projections with respect to various strategies and metrics
- Analyzes actual results to understand variances and revise projections
- Prepares multi-year financial forecasts