Financial Analyst-NYC

King & Spalding • New York City, NY

20h

About The Position

The Financial Analyst assists the Financial Analyst team with reporting and modeling financial and profitability data. The role works with internal business customers to define reporting requirements, builds parameter-based reports for end-user execution, develops electronic report distribution, and serves as a liaison with financial systems and finance operations groups. It also helps maintain the balancing and integrity of the firm’s financial system.

The position identifies and analyzes key performance measures, breaks metrics into underlying components, investigates changes and their causes, compares performance with industry benchmarks, and assesses the results of performance improvement efforts. It compiles data for further analysis and reports financial metrics to Partners and Senior Management. The role works under immediate supervision and relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Ability to prepare organized schedules and supporting work papers that document the work performed and make the information source and work clear to others.
• Ability to translate vague directions into specific actions.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks and tight deadlines effectively, including understanding scope, deliverables, and timelines.
• Ability to communicate results and analysis clearly to different audiences, knowing when to summarize or provide detail.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• High proficiency with Excel, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and macros.
• Ability to analyze relationships in financial data, identify variances from normal, and investigate and explain them.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to interact with personnel at all levels.
• Strong working knowledge of computer concepts and experience using personal computers.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.

Nice To Haves

• 1–2 years of experience in a law firm or corporate environment preferred.
• SQL experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate recurring data requests for possible creation of reports with end-user execution.
• Advance the firm’s electronic distribution of reports.
• Work with IT to assess data integrity issues across applications.
• Map data elements from various sources to target databases.
• Extract data from the financial system and ensure that it is maintained accurately.
• Serve as the team’s primary contact for resolving application software problems with vendors or the internal K&S IT Helpdesk.
• Prepare or assist in preparing recurring and special management reports and graphs.
• Prepare queries across multiple tables and databases to generate data.
• Manipulate data in Excel spreadsheets, SQL, or other databases to summarize requested financial reports.
• Generate ad hoc financial models and data analysis.
• Monitor key performance indicators regularly.
• Conduct competitive analysis for benchmarking.
• Compile data, analyze performance measures and variances, and report financial metrics to Partners and Senior Management.

Benefits

• Bonuses and raises awarded in recognition of individual merit-based performance.
• Comprehensive benefit program for full-time Business Services employees, including a health and wellness plan, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a health savings account, a 401(k) plan, a profit sharing plan, and a substantial Paid Time Off (PTO) program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level