Business Partner Financial Planning and Analysis

NSF•Ann Arbor, MI

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

NSF is looking to add a dynamic Business Partner Financial Planning and Analysis to our Finance Team to support NSF divisions. The Business Partner FP&A will provide all business insight aspects on a global program/project that spans multiple global divisions & functions.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree
Minimum of 5 Years of Finance experience.
Advanced Excel Skills (Modeling, Macros, Pivot Tables, etc.)
Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
Demonstrated ability to develop forward-looking forecasts, budgets & business plans.
Demonstrated ability to prepare and present accurate monthly summary of P&L to senior level leadership.
High proficiency in establishing and maintaining effective relationships across the business to understand the business drivers and goals.
Ability to drive the development and reporting of operating metrics that ensure financial performance.
- Demonstrated ability to support presentation of complex analysis with clarity and to work in a deadline driven environment.
Proficiency to ensure decisions made are aligned with accounting guidelines.
Ability to work onsite a minimum of three days per week

Nice To Haves

MBA
Experience leading a project or project team
Experience with Budget & Reporting Software (Oracle, Power BI, Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), OneStream, Hubble, Tableau, etc.)

Responsibilities

Leads weekly program/project financial review.
Drives and supports the forecast, budget and business plan process.
Collaborate with the business / functions to establish common global KPI's.
Develops business case for any program/project initiative driven by the global division or function.
Drives continuous improvement within the program/project
Always looking for ways to improve the business
Sharing any ideas and wins with all divisional, regional, and functional FP&A teams
Follows the consistent processes established within the finance function.
Interacts and educates with global division or function leaders on how to read and interpret management reports and gathers feedback on enhancements to management reporting.
Analyzes the operational metrics to the monthly financial statement to properly interpret what is happening within the project/program.
Leads discussion with the business or function leaders to tell the financial story from a variance to budget, forecast and prior year.
Provides ongoing education to global division or function leadership to increase business acumen.
Support month end close with variance analysis and collaborate with FP&A and general ledger teams to improve month end process.