Financial Analysis Associate

Responsibilities:

Financial Analysis is responsible for partnering across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams are responsible for a wide range of activities including financial control, forecasting and budgeting, analysis of financial/business metrics, delivery of weekly/monthly/quarterly management reporting, development of new reporting capabilities (e.g. dashboards), and advising the line of business CFOs on how to increase profitability and efficiencies.

• Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
• Lead the Expense planning cycle, including annual budgeting, periodic forecasting and analysis of variances in the plan
• Ad hoc analysis of the business and business drivers.  Identify opportunities for business improvement and recommend actions across the business
• Ensure data integrity, accuracy and timeliness in all financial reporting
• Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
• Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver financial results to senior management

Qualification and Skills:

• MBA/CA/CFA in Finance. 6+ years of work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/business partnering background
• Experience in planning, forecasting, and budgeting (P&A role)
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
• Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely

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