Sr. Financial Analyst

Financial AnalystThe Financial Analyst is responsible for conducting quantitative analyses of information affecting budgets, operating expenses, and/or other financial projects. Focuses on short and long-term financial planning and/or financial analysis of business operations for the purpose of measuring and forecasting future business performance. Develops strong understanding of business process and data flows to perform ad-hoc financial impact analysis. This position has the ability to make positive financial contributions to the company by discovering cost saving opportunities and ensure a standard high level of reporting integrity.Responsibilities:Build a strong understanding of business processes and data relationships necessary to understand a business need, analyze related data, and deliver reporting that provides key insights used in decision making.Assist with the annual budget and quarterly reforecast process, model preparation and submission, and completion of presentation packages. Assist the Director/ Manager with personnel and contractor costs tracking.Facilitate delivery of data or reporting supporting operating expense variance analysis and reporting.Build and deploy financial models and utilize analysis to identify cost savings opportunities.Analyze, educate, and recommend changes to accounting operations policies and procedures to support a strong control environment.Track, document, and work to resolve outstanding project tasks and issues.Prepare and review reports & other analysis as required for achieving financial objectives.Perform analysis of data trends on operational budget spendPrepare monthly accruals, journal entries and other analyses as part of the monthly accounting close.Perform monthly review of financial statements and identify trends.