Sr. Financial Analyst

  • Robert Half Finance & Accounting
  • Redwood City, California
  • 02/18/2022
Full time

Job Description

Description Do you want to make an impact as finance detail oriented? There's an urgent need for a Senior Financial Analyst to join a client via Robert Half in the Bay Area. The Senior Financial Analyst provides the operation of data-driven planning processes and improves upon monthly and quarterly reporting. Conduct the development of forecast processes to ensure resources are leveraged with maximum effectiveness, build long-range operating plans to support business initiatives, and drive world class strategic and financial planning methods, in this Senior Financial Analyst opportunity. You will ensure variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting the outlook models to reflect operational adjustments. In this role, you will be directly involved in the coordination of various planning cycles (annual planning, quarterly forecasts and monthly outlooks), while providing strategic analyses and recommendations. If you are looking for a pivotal role which will allow strategic input to the senior leadership of the company, this is the Senior Financial Analyst position for you! A company in the IT Software field has an opening for a full-time opportunity and it can be remote for the right person. Interested? Apply today!


What you get to do every day


- Consider performance to date and assess potential risks and opportunities


- Collaborate with senior executives on strategic deep dives by developing financial models and insights on topics such as: Retention forecasts, Campaign Planning & Tracking, return on investment of strategic investments, event tracking and execution, strategic resource allocation and prioritization


- Work with Accounting on the monthly and quarterly financial close process


- You will be closely engaged with cross functional partners in Accounting and Operations to execute against plans


- Explain monthly reporting to business partners on financial results and actions required


- Interpret and point out internal and external drivers impacting performance and trending


- Permit effective Business Intelligence (BI) to provide forward-looking insight and decision support


- Oversee monthly and quarterly performance through comparison of actuals versus expectations and enable business partners to handle their resources


- Gather and oversee forecasting reports


- Administer weekly, quarterly and annual Area/Segment-level Bookings and P& L forecasting Requirements - Highly-skilled with financial reporting tools


- Ability to simplify complex problems and build solutions


- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, MBA preferred


- 3+ years' experience with advanced financial analysis, planning and budget controls required


- Exemplary presentation skills


-Prior valuations experience is required


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