Sr. Financial Analyst

Description

Robert Half is currently recruiting a Hybrid Senior Financial Analyst for our SaaS client. The Senior Financial Analyst will be in charge of driving world class strategic and financial planning methods, developing rolling forecast processes to ensure resources are leveraged with maximum effectiveness, and building long-range operating plans to support business initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for operationalizing and cultivating data-driven planning processes and improving upon monthly and quarterly reporting. Make your mark as a Senior Financial Analyst in a career-building role and gain experience working directly with senior leadership of the company and contribute your strategic input. This role will allow you to directly be involved in the coordination of various planning cycles (annual planning, quarterly forecasts and monthly outlooks), while providing strategic analyses and recommendations. You will manage variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting the outlook models to reflect operational adjustments. This permanent employment opportunity is based in the Austin, Texas area.

What you get to do every day

• Submit monthly reporting to business partners on financial results and actions required

• Grasp and define internal and external drivers impacting performance and trending

• Support Accounting on the monthly and quarterly financial close process

• Permit effective Business Intelligence (BI) to provide forward-looking insight and decision support

• Join forces with senior executives on strategic deep dives by developing financial models and insights on topics such as: Retention forecasts, Campaign Planning & Tracking, return on investment of strategic investments, event tracking and execution, strategic resource allocation and prioritization

• Organize and check forecasting reports

• Work in close collaboration with cross functional partners in Accounting and Operations to execute against plans

• Record monthly and quarterly performance through comparison of actuals versus expectations and enable business partners to handle their resources

• Direct weekly, quarterly and annual Area/Segment-level Bookings and P& L forecasting

• Analyze performance to date and assess potential risks and opportunities

Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Finance, MBA preferred

• 2+ years experience with advanced financial analysis, planning and budget controls required

  • Capability to simplify complex problems and build solutions

  • Strong presentation skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of financial modeling

• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel

  • Demonstrated ability with financial reporting tools

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