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Job Summary
The Financial Analyst serves as a strategic partner to functional leadership, providing critical oversight of corporate cost structures through tracking and reporting of spend. Utilizing core financial and analytical skills, the Financial Analyst will develop a comprehensive understanding of each function's cost structure and will partner with functional leadership to drive overall spend efficiency as well as adherence to spending targets and budgets. This role will also have various responsibilities related to forecasting and the annual budgeting process, ensuring the delivery of projected spend within plan timelines. As part of a broader team focused on SG&A spending, the Financial Analyst will be a critical part of the monthly close process providing insight into spending vs. performance targets and highlighting variances that require review or adjustments by the corporate accounting team.
Essential Duties
- Support the monthly expense review process for corporate functions, collaborating with department heads to analyze actual vs budget variances.
- Analyze spend details to identify opportunities for savings.
- Work on process efficiency and improvement of the monthly close activities.
- Review and analysis of ad-hoc financial reporting and special analytical projects as assigned.
- Drive reporting utilizing SAC, developing reporting views that drive accountability for business partners.
- Lead role in the Annual Budget process – developing analysis, preparing budget estimates, and finalizing budgets for leadership approval.
- Support monthly forecasting efforts, allowing the FP&A team to have a better view of the most up-to-date trends in spend by function.
- Review expense items and partner with accounting for items that need to be accrued or re-classed to proper accounts.
- Conduct these activities while ensuring that internal and external standards are being met.
- Support the launch of SAP OPEX as part of Project Skyline through testing and user training.