Senior Financial Analyst

LarraStaff • Boston, MA

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About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst performs key functions in the annual planning process, ensuring timely completion and escalating issues as needed. This role proactively assists business users with financial planning and develops ad hoc and ongoing financial forecasts and models to support business decision-making. The analyst creates complex management reports and analyses to explain financial results, trends, and forecast changes, investigating discrepancies and business drivers. Responsibilities also include overseeing financial systems, coordinating enhancements, and resolving production issues. The role involves continuously assessing business value and efficiency, suggesting improvements, and leading or participating in departmental projects and continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Senior Financial Analyst fosters team development by sharing expertise and providing feedback.

Requirements

• Bachelor`s degree (Finance or Accounting) is required.
• Minimum of 3 years of finance experience.
• Must demonstrate attention to detail in a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously to drive results.
• Communicates effectively with teammates and others, leading meetings and interacting with increasingly higher levels of management to gather information and effectively present results and recommendations.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Word is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Performs functions of the annual planning process, monitoring timely completion and escalating issues for resolution.
• Proactively assists business users in the financial planning process.
• Develops ad hoc and on-going financial forecasts and models that assist the business in making decisions, effectively communicating trends and outcomes.
• Creates complex management reports and associated analyses that explain financial results or changes to the forecast or plan, investigating discrepancies and trends to identify business drivers of results.
• May review the analysis and reports developed by other teammates.
• Oversees other financial system, coordinating enhancements and assisting in resolving production problems.
• Continually assesses the business value and efficiency of the work performed, making suggestions for improvements and collaborating with others in implementing them.
• Leads or actively participates in increasingly complex department projects and continuous improvement activities.
• Fosters the development of teammates by sharing expertise and experience through training or reviewing their work.
• May provide feedback on performance.

What This Job Offers

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