Senior Financial Analyst
Livonia, Michigan
Summary:
Our client is a pioneer and industry leader in the gourmet greenhouse industry. As a family-owned business, they have proudly served the community for the last 65 years. Our client is a growing company who is looking to add an experienced and professional Senior Financial Analyst to their team. The Senior Financial Analyst will act as the key analytical support to the Operations and Logistics teams, and along with the corporate finance/accounting teams will drive the monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting and budgeting processes, along with ad hoc projects to drive results.
The Senior Financial Analyst must have 3+ years in Financial Analysis and be proficient in Excel.
Senior Financial Analyst Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required
- Three to five years of related analytical experience required
- Experienced in designing dynamic financial models in performing scenario analysis
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Communications, customer service, change management, and process improvement skills and experience
- Proficient in analysis of financial and operating information to facilitate decision making and recommending actions to improve performance
- Advanced MS Excel capability, including experience in cleansing and manipulating large data sets for reporting and analysis
- Experience in VBA and SQL preferred
- Experience operating in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently
- Typical office environment
- May periodically travel to visit company facilities in USA and Canada
Senior Financial Analyst Description:
- Analyze financial data and extract and define relevant information; interpret data for determining past financial performance and/or to project future costs and benefits
- Support the strategic business planning process, providing essential analysis on KPIs
- Use deep understanding of objectives, issues, and root causes and provides insightful, fact-based data analysis to help solve complex problems
- Proactively support the roll out of a detailed Business Intelligence reporting plan for the operations and logistics teams, including but not limited to the automation of reporting, creation of various dashboards, combining of various data sources, working with IT development team to validate data
- Responsible for working closely with Operations partners to achieve accurate and timely analysis on Company initiatives (e.g. War on Waste tracking and reporting)
- Lead periodic forecast, budget planning, and close processes, and facilitate periodic reviews
- Determine costs of business activities and recommended budget adjustments or other cost improvement measures
- Perform scenario, simulation, and sensitivity analysis where required
- Design, improve, and maintain complex models for granular analyses (SKU-level, Freight lane-level, etc.)
- Independently perform variance analysis summarizing key drivers, insights, and risks/ops into succinct high-level commentary
- Assist in building business cases to support and guide business decisions
- Maintain processes to ensure data quality and accuracy
- Assess data, process, and reporting needs, define requirements, support testing efforts and execute assigned implementation and support of corporate business systems
WHO WE ARE
Choosing the Hire Road is about shared success, active and committed partnerships and relationships that last. Hire Road is solely focused on connecting highly skilled professionals with leading organizations. We are a solutions-based, results-oriented staffing company specializing in a wide range of industry specific practices. To put it simply, we recruit, screen and hire talented people for temporary and full-time positions.
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