Senior Analyst, Finance & Strategy

Our partner client is a growing consumer products company. They seeking a Finance & Strategy Senior Analyst to join their Finance team. This is a newly created position that report directly to the Director of Finance and also work closely with the CFO.Our business is growing and changing rapidly, and your work will have a significant impact on our ability to successfully execute our strategies. Your work product and insights will be leveraged by cross functional partners on the Supply Chain/Operations, Sales, Marketing, e-commerce and Analytics teams.

The Finance & Strategy Senior Analyst will play a critical role in analyzing data involving revenue, expense and operational trends to provide visibility and actionable insight to the Executive Team.The Finance & Strategy Analyst will be instrumental in providing timely financial decision support to help business partners improve internal decision-making, drive growth initiatives, and improve operational efficiency and profitability. The right person for this role has exceptional modelling skills, analytical skills, experience developing formal presentations for an executive-level audience, and is an outstanding communicator and team leader. Someone who loves data, thrives in a highly-visible role, and gains satisfaction when partnering with other teams across the organization.

Finance Planning and Analysis (40%):

• Assist in the preparation of the annual budget and associated analyses for budgeting, forecasting and planning process
• Maintain financial models, rolling forecasts and tracking of risks and opportunities
• Continuously refine projections, analyze variances / KPI performance against expectations, and elevate insights that will enable senior leads to make fully informed business decisions
• Participate in the design, implementation and operations of an efficient planning system and process to support on-going analysis, reporting, and planning needs. Recommend and implement best practices and process improvements

   

  Financial Reporting (25%):

• Prepare monthly and annual financial statements and dashboards
• Develop meaningful reports and analytics to support the needs of the board, internal functional executives, external shareholders and investors. Manage company-wide data requests efficiently.
• Assists in the preparation of various internal reporting packages, which are distributed across all levels of the organization and to the Board
• Creates reporting processes so that they are repeatable and scalable
• Supports the Operations business function and provides visibility to performance vs budget
• Works with IT to improve data quality and accessibility
• Provides weekly, monthly and quarterly KPI reporting for Finance and Operations leadership team

   

  Strategic Finance (35%):

• Support various business leaders with ad hoc projects which may include revenue driving, cost reducing and other strategic or operational initiatives.
• Drive accurate and timely analytics, reports, and insightful observations to business leaders to increase operational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Evaluate acquisitions and development opportunities and strategic partnerships
• Understands business processes, systems and quality checks across the organization to identify weaknesses/gaps and recommend and/or implement solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business related field; MBA a plus
• 5+ years of relevant experience in an analytical role – with demonstrated success in the key responsibilities for this role – for example, financial planning, corporate strategy, management consulting, or investment banking

• Strong analytic, problem solving and judgement skills
• Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and complex financial modeling
• Ability to link big picture to details with ease; use data to drive decision-making process
• Strong team player with excellent communication and presentation skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and passion for accurate, high-quality work
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to frame key questions and the analyses needed to answer them
• Strong initiative and ability to manage multiple projects while delivering them in a timely manner.
• Self-starter, able to work independently in a cross functional environment
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CPG and/or e-commerce companies a plus
• Cost accounting experience
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Working knowledge of EPM software such as Host Analytics, Adaptive Planning or Vena
• Working knowledge of SAP B1