Senior Corporate Financial Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Financial Analyst - CFO Team

Are you interested in joining the fastest growing company in the city? Our client is newly international, hiring career aggressive high achievers to be the next generation of leaders.  They offer highly competitive comp packages & fantastic PTO!

General Function

• Responsible for the execution of highly complex financial analysis and business improvement of all key areas.
• Serve as financial leader to assigned lines of business and affiliates to understand and meet the information needs required to sustain growth. 
• Focus on providing value-added analysis and recommendations to support business growth. 
• Leads the education and development of less experienced staff.                                                                                                                                                                        

**This CFO Team focuses on Forecasting, Planning, Reporting, and Financial Project Management for Capital Projects and Long Range Planning. Position will partner with portfolio management team to asses risks, tying business projects with financial goals to ensure success. High visibility team requiring exceptional communication skills.

Essential Duties + Responsibilities

• Leads peers in the identification of key business factors (both internal and external) that impact all lines of business.   
• Maintains an up-to-date knowledge base to keep current on existing and emerging issues; applies this knowledge to assist business managers in sustaining growth.   
• Develops recommendations and action plans to support growth and eliminate or mitigate observed risks.
• Plays a lead role in the execution of financial analysis and in driving business results.  
• Prepares and analyze monthly reports for all lines of business and affiliates. Investigates and documents unusual items.   
• Performs maintenance on existing schedules and reports for changes to information.  
• Documents, evaluates and improves design of reports and processes to ensure that analytical tools evolve as business changes.
• Develops trend analyses and other quantitative reports to determine business trends.
• Manages the documentation of financial plans and analysis in a format appropriate for meetings with senior management. 
• Establishes, fosters and maintains working relationships with peers and management within Finance, affiliates and all lines of business.  
• Serves as the financial leader to all lines of business and affiliates.  
• Attends meetings with peers to maintain knowledge of current and emerging issues and risks in respective focus areas.
• Is an active participant in process improvement and problem resolution of issues.
• Serves in a lead role with the preparation and analysis of annual profit plan and rolling forecast for all lines of business. 
• Analyzes business performance, make recommendations for improvements and measure progress. 
• Success will be measured by outcomes. (i.e., business improvement)
• Works closely with finance leadership to develop metrics and variance analysis of actual results. 
• Assists with the development of presentations and discussion documents to highlight business issues and opportunities. 
• Creates and publishes graphic metrics to communicate business results and status. 
• Assists finance leaders with the automation of data collection, analysis and communication.
• Provides training and guidance to less experienced analysts.
• Allocates work and reviews work of less experienced staff. 
• Works with staff to set and achieve department objectives.
• Guides and advises subordinates. Resolves routine personnel issues.
• Develops cross training programs and ensures the adequate delegation of duties and responsibilities.
• Recruits, develops and exports talent.
• Acts as Supervisor or Team Leader to assigned team.
• May be responsible for incentive plan administration.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Responsible for providing employees timely, candid and constructive performance feedback; developing employees to their fullest potential and provide challenging opportunities that enhance employee career growth; developing the appropriate talent pool to ensure adequate bench strength and succession planning; recognizing and rewarding employees accomplishments.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills + Abilities Required

• Bachelor’s degree required. MBA or CPA preferred. Thorough knowledge of GAAP strongly desired.
• Typically requires minimum of seven years of accounting or finance related experience in industry or public the accounting.  
• Proficient with MS-Windows and other related PC applications. Possess the desire and ability to learn mainframe applications, and automated data analysis tools and techniques.   
• This position requires excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills necessary to interact with personnel ranging from clerical staff to more senior management.  
• Demonstrated proficiency in performance measurement tools and technology. 
• Ability to work both individually and as a member of a team. 
• Ability to maintain professional composure in a dynamic work environment that often requires management/completion of multiple tasks.   
• Demonstrate sound judgment as well as apply logical/critical thought processes.

*Rainmaker is a search firm focused in Finance, Accounting, Tax, Audit, Risk & Compliance,Treasury, M&A, Investor Relations, Financial Data, Business Intelligence and Analytics recruiting. 

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