Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis
About The Position
First Quality is a family-owned company with over 35 years of history, operating as a group of companies employing over 5,000 team members. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, First Quality produces personal care and household products. The Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis role is part of the Enterprise Central Finance team, based in Great Neck, NY. This position provides transactional and analytical support for general accounting and financial reporting, including enterprise-wide analytics and process automation. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining solutions to enhance business processes and financial analysis, and participating in internal audit reviews across the organization. The role reports to the Senior Director, Strategic Finance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or similar.
- Typically requires 3+ years of related experience.
- Experience in internal audit, internal controls, process improvement and/or alike, involving strong end-to-end process understanding and evaluation.
- Business analysis and project management experience.
- Demonstrated experience in driving process improvement and automation.
- Analytics driven and tech savvy.
- Experience working independently and leading complex projects.
- Strong prioritization and project management skills, including timely, and proactive communication of timelines, and status.
- Continuous process improvement mindset.
- Intellectual curiosity to help get to the best solutions.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience in ERP systems such as SAP.
- Knowledge of US GAAP basic principles and elements of internal controls.
- Understanding of manufacturing accounting environment.
Nice To Haves
- CPA is a plus.
- Experience with RPA and other automation tools, preferred.
Responsibilities
- Supports the Enterprise Finance team on group’s internal and external financial analyses, including elimination and consolidation of financial statements.
- Prepares monthly and quarterly management reporting.
- Prepares external compliance statements (bank), regulatory and compliance reports (US census, tax planning, etc.).
- Responsible for the preparation, coordination and documentation of financial analysis projects, such as financial and expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, and working capital.
- Provides analysis for forward-looking financial and business-related projects.
- Prepares budgets/forecasts and analysis of trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, general business conditions, and other related areas.
- Provides financial support and analytics to a wide range of individuals and departments throughout the organization.
- Identifies and develops analytics and automation opportunities for Finance and other First Quality business processes.
- Participates in end-to-end and/or targeted process and control reviews.
- Conducts process walkthroughs, documents process narratives and flow charts and evaluates control and process design.
- Creates and/or executes control testing procedures and documents work performed in accordance with the Department' standards.
- May assume a team lead role a work group.
- Acts as a specialist on complex technical and business matters.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
- Paid time off (three-week minimum)
- Medical, dental and vision starting day one
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
- Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
- Tuition assistance
- Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
