Financial Analyst

NorthPoint Search Group • Greensboro, NC

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About The Position

The Financial Analyst will join the client’s team in Greensboro, North Carolina. The role supports financial reporting, accounting, management reporting, data analysis, and continuous improvement. It includes helping the Finance Director with the month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations, analyzing financial and operational results, and providing timely reporting and insights to management and sales teams. The analyst also supports cash-cycle improvements, maintains relationships with logistics vendors, and promotes the effective use and ongoing improvement of financial and sales reporting tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• At least 8 years of experience in a financial role in professional services or industry.
• Familiarity with, and ability to quickly learn, financial and other data programs and software.
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, and process-improvement skills.
• Proven ability to develop excellent relationships with a diverse range of internal and external customers.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• QuickBooks experience.

Responsibilities

• Determine operating costs by establishing standard costs and collecting operational data.
• Compare actual results with plans and forecasts to identify the organization’s financial status.
• Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing procedures, providing trends and forecasts, explaining processes and techniques, and recommending actions.
• Analyze results, monitor variances, identify trends, and recommend actions to management to improve financial performance.
• Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Maintain databases by entering, verifying, and backing up data.
• Protect confidential financial information.
• Maintain technical knowledge through educational workshops and publications.
• Support the Finance Director with an efficient month-end close process.
• Analyze balance sheet accounts and prepare balance sheet reconciliations for the Finance Director to review.
• Extract and organize financial, sales, and operational data from accounting and other relevant systems.
• Compile, analyze, and interpret financial, sales, and operational reports showing trends, variances, risks, and opportunities for management.
• Communicate sales trends and distributor depletion status to sales directors and area managers regularly and promptly, with a focus on driving sales.
• Work with the accounts administrator to improve the cash cycle, including accounts payable timeliness and accounts receivable aging management.
• Promote continuous improvement in site processes, systems, and the quality of information provided to leadership and others.
• Maintain relationships with logistics vendors and ensure invoice accuracy.
• Develop understanding of product cost components.
• Champion sales reporting tools, including QuickBooks, VIP, Karma, Nielsen, Seven Fifty, and other relevant data tools.
• Use reporting and data tools to develop best-practice reports, including business intelligence reporting, to support business improvement and performance.
• Manage QuickBooks from a finance reporting perspective and champion its ongoing improvement.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package.

What This Job Offers

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