Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Electrical Source is the leading specialty distributor of need-it-now critical power components including circuit breakers, fuses, motor controls, disconnects and more for diverse commercial and industrial applications. The Company offers the industry's broadest and deepest inventory, covering all major OEM brands and spanning numerous product generations, complemented by superior product support delivered through an experienced and technical sales team.

Electrical Source is a portfolio company of Greenbriar Private Equity. Greenbriar focuses exclusively on sectors where the firm can bring deep domain expertise, decades of experience, an extensive network of industry relationships and significant operating resources to each investment. The firm currently employs 21 investment professionals and is investing from its fourth fund. Greenbriar’s investors include some of the world’s largest foundations, university endowments, family offices and insurance companies. Since Greenbriar’s founding in 1999, Greenbriar has raised over $3.5 billion of committed capital across four funds, acquiring 31 platform companies and 51 add-on acquisitions to date. Greenbriar’s investment professionals have substantial experience investing in, managing, advising and financing companies in these sectors, which allows them to recognize and anticipate the implications of fundamental industry trends and developments.

THE ROLE

Seeking a talented Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to join the Electrical Source Holdings Finance team. This FP&A Analyst position is both a strategic and hands-on role that provides full FP&A support to primarily internal customers.

The Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst is primarily responsible for financial reporting and data analytics. The FP&A Analyst will have an advanced ability to analyze data, highlight key insights, and recommend actions to key stakeholders. This analysis focus includes analyzing, researching, and preparing financial information and reports to meet specific daily, weekly and monthly deadlines. This position will have frequent interaction with internal business partners and should be comfortable building strong relationships and asking questions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ability to understand an internal/external customer's business needs and translate those needs into specific analytics requirements.
• Extract, cleanse, and manipulate large data from multiple data sources into standardized reporting structures.
• Consistently seek out new challenges and opportunities for improvement with demonstrated ability to learn quickly and implement new technologies and platforms.
• Extreme attention to detail and accuracy with an ability plan and organize tasks, responsibilities, and priorities.
• Working collaboratively with other team members utilizing their strengths to achieve optimal performance and results.
• Effective communication including clarifying assumptions, seeking to ensure important information was transferred to the recipient, and providing appropriate updates.
• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to complex problems.
• Ability to work independently, establishing strategic objectives, project plans and milestone goals.
• Ability to engage directly with a very wide of stakeholders in executive management, finance, operations, as needed.
• Self-starter with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
• Must be organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of a team, regardless of the task at hand.
• Must be willing to keep others informed and escalate issues and risks to management.
• Demonstrates stability of performance under pressure and/or opposition. Ability to cope with uncertainty, change and performance demands.

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS

• The FP&A function is not a static environment due to the regular acquisitions we make. The successful candidate will need to be able to manage their workload in a regularly changing environment.
• Ability to manage a high volume of work over multiple divisions in a centralized corporate environment.
• Process improvement contributions. Targeted improvement is important measuring stick. Reducing close cycle time and streamline efficiencies.
• Demonstrated energy and ability to thrive in a fast-paced high-acquisition focused environment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree from an accredited university in finance, economics or an equivalent combination of experience and education is required. Financial statement acumen is required.
• 2-4 years of experience in a directly related area, during which professional capabilities have been clearly demonstrated.
• Solid experience with Data Warehousing and BI systems (Powerpivot, Power BI, Tableau).
• Expertise in MS Excel including the ability to define and debug advanced formulae, look ups, power query, advanced charting, pivot tables.
• Knowledge of Business Intelligence reporting tools, and data visualization tools (SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Business Objects, Power BI, and Tableau and QlikView).

WHAT WE OFFER

• Opportunity to build a career with great benefits including medical, dental & vision, and paid vacation.

Company Description

We operate in a fast paced, growth focused environment. While our financial analyst roles contain the typical FP&A type responsibilities of analysis, forecasting, and budgeting, M&A analysis and integration is also a large focal area for our finance team. Our company's growth strategy is heavily M&A focused, so our environment is ever changing in people, products and locations. This is a great opportunity for a skilled financial analyst to thrive in a fast paced, ever growing environment.