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Financial Planner & Analyst

Vyond

Financial Planner & Analyst

San Mateo, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Vyond is seeking an experienced Financial Planner & Analyst to act as the analytical engine of the company to provide insights and support ‘optimal’ business decision making. This role will be a key asset in the future growth of the company. This individual will be responsible for the Company’s annual budgeting process, quarterly forecast, operating plan variance analysis and special projects. S/he will provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management including preparing board presentations, financial presentations, capital expenditure analysis, industry/peer group comparisons, new business opportunities, acquisition analysis and other projects requested by senior management. This position reports to the Head of Finance.

    Position Responsibilities:

    Develop and enhance financial plans including budgeting and modeling, and strategic planning of various revenue and expenses drivers to drive insightful analyses.

    Develop thorough understanding of interdependencies of all P&L line items and profitability drivers.

    Work with individual departments to prepare budgets and consolidate them into one overall company budget.

    Provide analyses and trends on business by departments, region or business unit, and perform variance analyses to explain differences in performance and make improvement going forward.

    Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses and capital expenditures.

    Examine and evaluate the cost-efficiency of each department of the company, in light of what percentage of the company’s financial resources each department consumes.

    Understand accounting rules governing the financials and facilitate analysis and understanding of impact when accounting rules change.

    Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies and understand ROI in marketing programs, new campaign rollouts as well as new projects.

    Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes.

    Assist with the company’s Business Intelligence initiatives and projects.

    Continuously improve and streamline the financial management processes including monthly reporting and forecasting.

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA highly preferred

    4 years experience in financial planning & analysis, business analysis or equivalent experience in software or high tech industry

    Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

    Accounting/GAAP and finance knowledge

    Broad business knowledge and a good understanding of business best practices

    Must be able to manage projects across multiple departments with limited supervisions

    Experience in financial modeling and data driven financial analysis

    Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills

    Ability to think creatively, highly-driven and self-motivated

    Capable of handling and intelligently analyzing a mountain of different types of data and data evaluation metrics

    Great problem solver – able to decipher the various puzzle pieces that constitute a company’s finances and envision putting the pieces together to formulate a variety of possible growth scenarios

    Ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on capacity