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The Senior Financial Analyst provides budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis support to the Finance and Legal teams, ensuring accurate financial management and strategic guidance.
Role Description
The Senior Financial Analyst, supporting the Finance and Legal orgs, is a cross-functional role acting as the primary business partner for these teams - driving budgeting, forecasting, headcount management and expense tracking. The ideal candidate has a strong attention to detail, while still being able to understand the big picture, a penchant for process improvement, and a desire to learn and grow.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day business partnering support for the Finance and Legal Teams, including Budget management and spend approval, monthly variance reporting, and strategic guidance to encourage budget utilization and accuracy.
- Drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast for the Finance and Legal Teams — gathering budget inputs and helping budget owners meet their strategic goals within their budget envelope.
- Produce accruals for the Finance and Legal Teams on a monthly basis.
- Support ad-hoc FP&A projects and deliverables, including support of short- and long-range Planning cycles.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive experience in a financial analyst role
- Robust analytical and modeling skills with a strong attention to detail
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, month end close and variance analysis; either through direct business partnership experience or experience with these responsibilities from a corporate consolidation perspective
- Experience or understand of accruals
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with or a strong understanding of accruals.
- Knowledge of financial systems, such as Oracle
- Experience supporting G&A orgs (General and Admin: Finance, Legal, HR)
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$112,900—$152,700 USD
US Zone 3
$100,300—$135,700 USD
Top Skills
Oracle
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