Senior Associate Financial Analysis

Job Description
Bring financial and strategic insight to decisions that shape how the firm plans, invests, and performs. You will partner across teams to strengthen budgeting and forecasting, improve management reporting, and elevate business metrics. You will help leaders understand results, drivers, and trade-offs through clear analysis and storytelling. You will also identify opportunities to streamline cycles and improve controls through automation and process improvement.

As a Senior Associate in Finance, Financial Analysis, you will partner across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. You will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data and prepare recurring management reports. You will develop recommendations that improve business procedures and operations and help maintain financial and reporting systems. You will contribute to special projects and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen decision-making, efficiency, and control.

Job responsibilities

Manage annual and ongoing financial planning activities for assigned product areas
Provide business rationale for month-end performance, forecasting updates, and planning decisions
Analyze product financial performance, consumption and demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reporting
Deliver efficiency reporting, analytics, and strategy insights (including location strategy and span of control analysis)
Build financial business cases to support business initiatives and investments
Report on and monitor key metrics, driving data quality improvements across the product area
Develop and track performance metrics and create presentations for senior management
Perform variance analysis, explain key drivers, and communicate changes from prior forecasts and budgets
Design and enhance reports and dashboards that improve the delivery of financial results
Strengthen controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where feasible
Support special projects and cross-team initiatives as needed

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a technical subject
Four or more years of relevant work experience
Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
Proficiency in data mining, data gathering, and data set manipulation
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyze large data sets and summarize conclusions clearly
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly
Ability to create tailored reporting for senior management needs
Demonstrated ability to execute special projects and assignments with limited lead time or information
Ability to work effectively under pressure and tight deadlines
Collaborative working style and ability to be a trusted partner across business and finance teams
Strong time management and prioritization skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

Experience in financial services

Experience in accounting or controllership backgrounds