The Financial Analyst will partner with Cirrus’ Supply Chain leaders on key strategic projects. This position will provide analytical support to Cirrus’ Supply Chain and Operations team by working with leadership to develop Key Performance Indicators, leveraging and improving upon existing metrics, and identifying business insights and trends through related measurement and analysis. This position will also analyze historical spending trends, evaluate different scenarios and help the business team understand potential trade-offs. This position is rife with opportunity to make an impact both at a direct financial level and indirectly through the influencing of processes and policy.
Duties and Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Acts as business partner to Supply Chain leadership providing financial outlook and performance, actively participating in cross-functional meetings and presenting relevant reporting and documents to all levels of management
- Participates in preparation of annual financial budgets and updated financial projections as needed to track performance and outlook of projects
- Prepares actual to budget/forecast variance analysis including identification of headcount, operating, outsourcing and expense savings opportunities, and provides actionable recommendations to leadership as well as identification of potential risks, meanwhile encouraging accountability for achieving forecasted/plan results
- Supports and validates business plans for new and ongoing projects and investments within the Business Unit
- Engages in monthly reviews, providing financial insights to key drivers of change and ensuring results are well understood by decision makers
- Collaborates with Business Unit to make recommendations for scalable business solutions related to planning and budgeting
- Acts as liaison between business team and accounting department ensuring transactions are appropriately accounted for in the financials
- Assist in the preparation, validation, and execution of the standard cost roll
- Support cross-functional teams with data and processes that proactively recognize changing operations
- Performs ad hoc financial analysis as requested
- Creates, maintains, and validates reporting tools for analysis
- Working on multiple projects at a time, this role will focus on the details while simultaneously working to take on high level/big picture challenges
OTHER
- Actively supports our mission, vision and core values and demonstrates Cirrus’ Service Essentials
- Follows standard operating procedures and processing guidelines while maintaining attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness
- Participates in department meetings and offers suggestions and