Senior Financial Analyst (Cepheid Only)

Job Title: FP&A Analyst
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Pay Rate: $58.22/hr
Duration: 1 Year

Job Description

• Perform FP&A activities including financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.
• Analyze historical, actual, and projected financial data to support business planning and decision-making.
• Manage month-end, quarter-end, and year-end FP&A close activities, including journal entries.
• Prepare and maintain headcount and operating expense forecasts.
• Partner with Marketing and business leaders to review actuals, forecast variances, trends, and execution against plan.
• Review purchase requisitions in iBuy for funding accuracy, GL accounts, and cost centers.
• Support improvements to financial reporting, budgeting processes, and finance systems.
• Develop financial reports, ad hoc analyses, process documentation, and training resources for finance stakeholders.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of relevant Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) experience.
• Financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.
• Month-end, quarter-end, and year-end FP&A close processes.
• Headcount and operating expense forecasting.
• Financial modeling and historical/forecast financial analysis.
• Accounting processes, procedures, and internal controls.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including macros, PivotTables, and lookup functions.
• Financial reporting and database-based data analysis.

Preferred Skills

• SAP experience.
• Business Intelligence (BI) tools and financial reporting systems.
• iBuy procurement system experience.
• Experience improving financial reporting and budgeting processes through new systems and tools.