Assoc Financial Analyst, Corporate Development

C&S Wholesale Grocers • Keene, NH

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About The Position

The Associate Financial Analyst will assist in the Finance function for the company, including planning, reporting and analysis. Responsibilities include providing financial expertise to business partners in order to fully understand performance and optimize strategic and tactical decision making.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of applicable experience, including understanding key accounting principles
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Demonstrated proficiency in Excel; some experience with other software (i.e. Access, GL Packages, Financial Reporting system) preferred

Responsibilities

• Partner with business customers to ensure the accurate and timely preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Work with Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis to determine timeline and requirements
• Prepare budget and forecast templates ahead of plan, ensure business customers understand requirements and assumptions
• Assist business partners in completion of template; prepopulate and review with them for business rationale
• Assist with deployment of required plan changes and provide analyses of final budget
• Ensure Hyperion planning and reporting environments are correct
• Assist in the ongoing assessment of template/dependencies and planning process for potential improvements
• Identify changes, implement and communicate changes
• Provide business customers with recurring weekly, monthly and quarterly analysis by, including KPIs and performance vs budget/forecast
• Create ad hoc analysis to assist business customers as required
• Provide supporting analytics for strategic projects
• Collaborate with Accounting to ensure the correct representation of the P&L for business activities
• Provide business partnership to customers
• Ensure their understanding of P&L representation of business activities
• Ensure their understanding of financial dependencies
• Ongoing, field queries and create analysis as required
• Fully understand business context and considerations of business partners

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree