Principal Financial Analyst
About The Position
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation. AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered. At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us. As a key member of the FP&A organization, the person in this role will consolidate, monitor, process and report OPEX and allocations. The ideal candidate has experience in business partnership in order to assist business leaders in making informed operational and investment decisions. Your Impact The Principal Financial Analyst will draw heavily on their financial modeling and system skills to provide insights to help drive financial decision making that yields maximum, long term value for the business. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded performer who thrives in a fast-paced and demanding environment, embraces a collaborative work style and possesses a clear customer and operations focus, with a passion for business support. If you are a change agent, thought leader, and builder, this is a great role for you!
Requirements
- A track record of good judgment and decision-making in positions with significant responsibility.
- Highly autonomous and able to independently identify high-value projects and drive them to completion.
- Demonstrated leadership capability in cross-functional team environments.
- Having and being able to articulate/defend an informed opinion on important topics.
- Process improvement and automation
- 7+ years of progressive experience in a Finance role, preferably in FP&A with Business partnership experience
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Self-starter, proactive, with the ability to multi-task.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at all levels within the company.
- Strong excel, financial and ERP reporting, Power BI, Tableau skills
- Collaborative, able to influence across teams, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- work both independently and as part of a team
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or Economics.
Nice To Haves
- Technology or Telecommunications industry experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Consolidation, validation, and reporting OPEX and P&L results, includes variance analysis and commentary.
- Drive and maintain allocation of expenses, including process, models and systems
- Recommending actions by analyzing and interpreting financial and operational data. This may include scenario analysis, aggregation of necessary data, development of supporting models, coordination with Business Leaders to determine assumptions, and completion of key metrics, reporting, and benchmarks.
- Gather information and data from various systems, reporting tools, and people. Ability to bring those data points together in a meaningful way to provide granular insight into the various models
- Own and manage end to end BU level reporting to Senior Executives. Includes automation, quarterly presentations and adhoc analysis
- Perform ad-hoc analysis to support various business initiatives and special projects.
Benefits
- At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page.
- As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
