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Job Title: Senior Finance Analyst
Newark, CA
Description
- We are looking for a General & Administrative (G&A) Senior Finance Analyst reporting to the Head of FP&A to deliver accurate, data-based financial information and reports.
- This role will play an integral part of the Finance team that directly helps secure the success of the company.
- Provide accurate Headcount and Payroll analysis for all employment types and contracted labor services.
- Develop effective planning, reporting, and analysis processes for all administrative teams.
- You will be responsible for functional spend models, return on investment analyses and assisting in contract negotiations.
- Consolidate and analyze financial data including reconciliations, period-to-period variance analysis, establishing relevant KPI and cost targets, analyzing operating cost changes with insightful explanations.
- Develop annual operating plans and provide monthly financial forecasts
- Review purchase requests to ensure accuracy and compliance with financial plan.
- Facilitate operating team alignment and decision making, present data in cohesive reports that provide clear communication and recommendations.
- Provide objective business consultancy and financial guidance to the company.
- Partner closely with all internal stakeholders and operating teams (including General Counsel, CFO, Head of People) to provide clear financial inputs and provide guidance on operational decisions.
- Additional ad-hoc assignments and projects supporting departments across the organization including month-end financial reporting, longer-term Business Plan development, benchmarking and process analysis.
- Provide new perspective to identify and propose opportunities for improvement across processes and business functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or Economics. MBA or CPA is a plus.
- At least 3 years’ relevant experience, with a minimum of 2 years of financial analysis experience and variance/period-to-period analysis.
- Outstanding forecasting methods and techniques.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management abilities.
- Proven technical, quantitative and critical-thinking skills, high level of independent judgment, initiative and creativity to identify and clearly communicate key performance drivers to management.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and assignments with a high degree of autonomy and accountability for results
- Demonstrated effective written, interpersonal and oral communication skills. Strong relationship building and collaboration skills as well as comfortably interact with executive management team.
- Established ability using SAP and Microsoft Office software with a particularly high proficiency with Excel.
