Senior Financial Analyst

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Job description

Role: Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis)

This is a great role for someone looking to leverage their finance and accounting skills to make an impact, help guide change and continue moving the organization forward. This is an organization that truly cares for, values and appreciates its employees. In addition to being able to work with a world-class Finance team, this company offers stability and job security within a larger organization. This is my favorite client. Truly amazing people. I would 100% work with this team and everyone I've helped them hire loves the team. We need someone with a strategic mindset that thrives in a fast-paced environment.

At a high level: you'll get to work on a variety of things including: budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling 3-statement (BS, IS, CF) and SGA modeling in Excel, consolidation reporting, long range strategic planning, financial and operational analytics such as: sales (pricing/volume), profitability (revenue/GM/expenses) at the product and market level, SG&A analysis, M&A, accrual allocation, cost mitigation, building reporting & consolidation models and much more. The ideal candidate will have some industry experience within manufacturing, industrial, retail, mining/metals, chemical, supply chain/logistics industry experience or equivalent (something that is a manufactured tangible product at a plant location that includes transportation costs to move the product to their customers).

Location: Greater Cleveland, OH (Ideally someone that is near Independence area). Must currently live in the Greater Cleveland Area metro. Relocation assistance is not available. Currently working on a hybrid schedule with additional flexibility.

Duration: Full Time (FTE), permanent role

Benefits:

• Broad scope of responsibilities so you won't get bored or pigeonholed into one area of finance
• Work with a dynamic progressive team and collaborate with some of the best minds in the business
• Opportunity to work with an exceptional Finance Leadership team and report to an amazing Director of FP&A that truly values and appreciates their team and is a great mentor to help push your personal growth & development.
• Comes with an excellent compensation package, benefits, vacation, holidays
• Stability and job security within a larger organization

Position Overview:

• Assist with the budgeting process
• Work closely with the finance team and business leaders to gather insight into business trends to update monthly forecasts
• Responsible for monthly executive P&L reporting and being able to present monthly results to the Executive Team
• Responsible for financial modeling in Excel and understanding forecast models thoroughly, works in partnership with departmental leaders
• Identify growth opportunities in the business and develop ideas with organization leaders into strategic business plans including financial outcomes
• Presentations - produce enterprise-level reporting such as P&Ls, KPI's, reviews financial presentation produced by the broader finance team including monthly financial reviews with executives, board of directors' presentations, and ad hoc supplemental materials

Background Profile:

• Knowledgeable in Corporate FP&A and plant level operations, corporate & plant finance, accounting, related reporting and operations or willing to learn quickly
• 3+ years of Finance or Accounting experience with a blend of public accounting and corporate industry experience preferred (ideally manufacturing)
• Exposure to accounting and finance software (SAP, Oracle, HFM, Hyperion Planning/Essbase, Power BI/Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Adaptive Insights, etc.) is a big plus
• An overall aptitude for Finance issues in a large public company
• Advanced degrees/certifications strongly preferred (CPA, CFA, CMA, Financial Modeling, MBA, MAcc)
• BA degree in Finance or Accounting or a related field or related equivalent work experience
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 suite of products
• Advanced Excel skills and is comfortable data mining and creating/updating Excel models/templates to use for recurring monthly analysis
• IT background or ability to run queries would be helpful, looking to enhance their processes to automate as much as possible
• Must have a strong work ethic, be a true team player, roll up your sleeves, can-do attitude, is okay with getting into the details to truly understand if something does not pass the sniff test
• Seeking someone that considers themselves to be a life-long learner and has a lot of intellectual curiosity in trying to understand how and why things work
• Must have a great personality and be able to laugh

Exploratory conversations are currently being conducted, for immediate consideration or interest, please let us know.

Though we'd love to see your resume, we don't need to in order to have a conversation. Send me an email to shane (at) fourpillarstalent.com and let me know what is appealing to you about this role, and why you feel you're qualified.

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