Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis
About The Position
First Quality is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis for its office in Great Neck, NY. As part of the Enterprise Central Finance team, this role provides transactional and analytical support for general accounting and financial reporting, including enterprise-wide analytics and process automation. The position designs, develops, and maintains solutions that improve business processes and financial analysis, and participates in business process internal audit reviews as needed. The role supports internal and external financial analyses, financial statement consolidation and eliminations, management reporting, compliance reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of financial and business trends. It also supports process and control reviews across the organization under the direction of the Senior Director, Strategic Finance. The position may lead a work group and serves as a specialist on complex technical and business matters.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a similar field.
- Typically 3 or more years of related experience.
- Experience in internal audit, internal controls, process improvement, or similar work, including strong end-to-end process understanding and evaluation.
- Business analysis and project management experience.
- Demonstrated experience driving process improvement and automation.
- Strong analytical and technology skills.
- 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 and intellectual curiosity.
- Financial analysis and financial forecasting skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP.
- Knowledge of basic U.S. GAAP principles and internal control elements.
- Understanding of a manufacturing accounting environment.
Nice To Haves
- CPA.
- Experience with RPA and other automation tools.
Responsibilities
- Support enterprise-wide internal and external financial analyses, including financial statement eliminations and consolidation.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting and external compliance statements for banks, as well as regulatory and compliance reports such as U.S. Census and tax-planning reports.
- Prepare, coordinate, and document financial analysis projects involving financial and expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, and working capital.
- Provide analysis for forward-looking financial and business projects.
- Prepare budgets and forecasts and analyze trends in manufacturing, sales, finance, general business conditions, and related areas.
- Provide financial support and analytics to individuals and departments throughout the organization.
- Identify and develop analytics and automation opportunities for Finance and other business processes.
- Participate in end-to-end and targeted process and control reviews under the direction of the Senior Director, Strategic Finance.
- Conduct process walkthroughs; document process narratives and flow charts; and evaluate process and control design.
- Create and/or execute control testing procedures and document work performed in accordance with department standards.
- May assume a team lead role for a work group.
- Complete annual data privacy and security training, as applicable to the role.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities, including an annual discretionary bonus.
- Paid time off, with a three-week minimum.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on the first day of employment.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Paid parental leave.
- Child and family care assistance through a dependent care FSA with employer match up to $3,750.
- Bundle of joy benefit providing a year’s worth of free diapers to 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
