Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Finance professional with strong analytical and communication skills to join our regional finance team as a Financial Analyst and support the Middle East and Africa organization.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support Sr. Finance Manager in all FP&A planning, analysis, and reporting to implement financial goals and initiatives to support our fast growing organization.
- Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights and support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting processes.
- Build and update dashboards using Excel, Hyperion Essbase, PowerBI, and other business intelligence tools.
- Independently investigate data issues, ask pertinent questions, identify root causes, and collaborate with functional business partners to improve data quality.
- Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions and drivers for decision support, and conduct ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights.
- Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, covering areas such as revenue, new product launches, pricing, operating expenses.
- Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability, data flow, and accuracy.
- Perform special projects and ad-hoc reporting as required by finance and business leadership.
How You Will Get Here:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- MBA degree preferred.
Experience:
- 3+ years of relevant experience in finance.
- Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization.
- Proven track record of analytical abilities and experience in presenting analysis to business partners.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Advanced user in Excel. Proficient user in Hyperion, Power BI.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to present analysis concisely and effectively.
- Attention to detail and consistently delivering high-quality work. Ability to learn quickly, and multi-task in a fast-paced setting.
- Good understanding of business processes and financial controls, able to identify control weaknesses and recommend mitigation actions.
- Self-motivated, eager to learn new concepts, able to work individually and as part of a team.