Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

The Security BU Finance team is a business partner to the BU President and his team. While reporting to the Sr Manager, Sales Finance the Sr. Financial Analyst plays a critical role in our financial reporting & planning processes, providing in-depth analysis to the FP&A team and supports the Sales VPs in partnership with the Sales Finance team. This role helps to identify opportunities for profit improvement and to drive above market revenue growth. This individual will be a strategic business partner for the Sales Organization. This is an excellent opportunity to partner with executive leaders and cross-functional teams. This position will frequently be the financial representative on selected core teams.

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

• Develop, analyze, and report on the annual operating plan as well as monthly reforecasts for the North American customer accounts and sales departments’ expenses. 
• Analysis of sales, allowances, and SG&A at month-end to provide accurate, relevant and timely input for sales and finance decision making.
• Analysis of proposed new sales pricing and promotions, including incremental and fully allocated analysis of key new promotions; review of price changes and impact on future results.
• Review of price elasticity for key promotions, and recommendation of pricing/programs to optimize sales and profitability.
• Foster M&A integration to help streamline and improve processes.
• Provide the sales team with ad hoc requests as needed.
• Assist in production of monthly reports and participate in various department projects and assignments where appropriate.

Qualifications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• 5+ years Finance / Analytical experience required. 7+ years of experience preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.  Moderate proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Access and Word
• Must communicate and present, both verbally and in writing, extremely proficiently to a broad range of staff. Teaching, motivating and persuading individuals throughout the organization is a critical competency for this position
• Must demonstrate strong analytical skills and understand financial concepts intimately and be able to teach them to others. Must understand accounting concepts and know how to research actual versus expected results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous experience supporting sales teams and financial planning

• Previous experience with Oracle EBS, HFM, Essbase, Tableau