Financial Analyst

Position : Financial Analyst

Location : San Diego, CA

Duration : 3 Months Contract

Total Hours/week : 40.00

Description:

Education:

• Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree: Accounting / Finance MBA or CPA Preferred

Experience

• Minimum: 5 years Accounting / Finance Experience
• Ideal: FP&A and/or Systems Experience (SAP, HFM, BPC)

Qualifications:

• Budgeting / forecasting, general accounting, analytical skills; team player, ability to lead a team, own and drive financial reporting & results, leader, with a proven work ethic.

General Description:

• Under general supervision, employee will forecast, budget, report, and analyze results for the global Quality & Regulatory organization across the legacy client business units.
• The role will interface with multiple parties including but not limited to Finance, global Quality leadership, global Regulatory leadership, Shared Services, etc. to enact appropriate forecasting and budgeting.
• Role will require an individual with the ability to problem solve independently while providing updates and communications to management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all planning, reporting and analysis of annual global budgets, global forecasts, and three-year strategic reviews for legacy client business units.
• Provide value-added finance support, monthly variance analysis, and spend reports to global leadership teams to aid in the decision-making process.
• Develop an understanding of key business drivers to better predict possible outcomes and impacts.
• Coordinate with global leadership teams to implement long-term initiatives.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis to leadership and finance teams.
• Drive changes as needed, reviewing and delivering recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Create forecast and budgeting models.
• Analyze trends.
• Work closely with the Quality and Regulatory leadership team across the globe to assist them in understanding and delivering on financial targets
• Keep effective communication with corporate office and region finance, providing accurate and timely financial information.
• Travel to local quality and regulatory leadership teams on a monthly basis to review financials.
• Ability to understand and become subject matter expert quickly on the quality and regulatory organizations as well as understanding various financial ERP systems utilized.
• Ability to organize, analyze and report on financial results originating in various ERP systems into one standardized report.
• Support various ad hoc projects as needed such as systems integration and cass implementation.