Financial Analyst II

Financial Analyst II

At Client, the Technology Finance team is not a detached corporate function. The expectation is to actively contribute to decision-making at all levels of the organization. This position will partner deeply with Financial and Business colleagues to evaluate, budget, and actively manage the financial discipline for the company's technology organization. Key components of the role include helping to build the budget and forecasts, ensuring the accuracy of reported actual costs, and reporting on variance analysis to both Business and Financial leaders. The Sr. Financial Analyst will support leadership with financial reporting and analysis to be used for strategic and tactical decision-making, long range financial plans, annual operating plan and forecast cycles. In addition, the role will work with stakeholders across the business to develop and validate investment business cases for capital projects and optimize priorities across the portfolio.

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Assist in preparation, review, and consolidation of the annual operating and capital budgets as well as Long Range Planning (long range plan, annual budget, and monthly forecasts).
• Partner with business partners to help "move the needle".
• Assist with monthly capital/expense tracking, forecasting and, variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly reporting, variance analysis, and communicates monthly results to department heads and project owners.
• Prepare the monthly accounting close including accruals and journal entries.
• Review Capital Expenditure Requests (CER) including NPV modeling.
• Communicate and partner with the Tech Finance Leads to manage operational budgets, model business scenarios, and build positive relationships that drive transparency and accuracy.
• Analyze and monitor financial and operational trends, integrating data from multiple sources, to develop a holistic view of performance.
• Manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment with a high level of accuracy.
• Ad hoc analysis as needed, including corporate finance team requests, and supporting the greater Tech organization.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in Finance or related field
• Knowledge of accounting (GAAP) and finance principles.
• Experience in Media/Entertainment or a technology facing role/industry a plus.

Additional Qualifications:

• Highly analytical, able to synthesize data and provide concise and actionable narratives.
• Proactive self-starter and phenomenal teammate, ability to learn quickly, be flexible and adapt to changing industry and organizational landscape.
• EnProducts digging into financial analysis, process improvement, and owning end to end processes
• Has a strong sense of urgency and understands that "speed" matters, manage multiple responsibilities, and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Detail oriented.
• Continuous improvement mind-set – ability to seek out and implement internal or external best practices.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint; experience with SAP, Oracle, TM1, Longview, and PowerPoint are a plus.