Job Description
Summary
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join our growing Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team, reporting to the Senior Manager, FP&A. In this role, you will be a member of the team partnering with the Go-To-Market (GTM) leaders, providing insights into budgeting, expense management, resource planning, and financial operations to drive informed decision-making. You will also work closely with the Finance and Accounting teams on the close, reporting, and forecasting process. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with senior leadership and contribute to the company’s overall financial strategy.
This role will be supporting business leaders in the US. Successful candidates are expected to participate in meetings with the US leaders in the at least for the portion of the US time zone.
Preferred Working Hours:
2 pm to 11 pm IST (flexibility to work with team members across PST, IST, EST)
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the GTM organization to manage budgets, forecasts, monthly budget variance to actual (BvA) reporting and analysis, and support their respective expense management and headcount needs
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the organization
- Work with the accounting team to ensure that expense accrual and budgeted expenses are in alignment and improve the forecast accuracy
- Assist with monthly and quarterly management and executive-level reporting packages, consolidation and forecast updates
- Drive growth and operational improvements across the team and the company
- Perform deep dive ad-hoc analysis as requested by FP&A and senior management
- Focus on continuous process improvement as it relates to planning and forecasting
- Be knowledgeable to support and maintain planning and commissions tools
- The right person for this role will demonstrate a strong aptitude for fiscal management, detailed data compilation, review, and analysis, independence, good business judgment, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
Key Experience:
- 3+ years combined relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic planning, or management consulting
- Strong understanding of corporate finance concepts and accounting principles
- Excellent knowledge of MS Excel, Google Sheets and Google Slides
- Expertise in financial applications such as Salesforce, Netsuite, CaptivateIQ, Pigment, and advanced Excel modeling.
- Excellent financial modeling skills as well as data analysis & reporting
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, to juggle multiple priorities, and to stay flexible through growth and change
- Approach work with curiosity, an eye for detail, strong initiative, and a “roll up your sleeves” mentality
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and writing skills.
- Ability to succinct convey complex information in an easily understandable form to business leaders
Skills
- Accounting
- Communications Skills
- Excel
- Financial Modeling
- Strategic Thinking
- Team Collaboration