The Lead Financial Analyst will partner with assigned operational areas to deliver the below critical business deliverables (as required):
Financial Analysis-
- Build ROI/business models (ST <) for major capital expenditures, projects, ventures, promotions
- Analyze profitability for key areas of assigned operational area
- Provide proactive variance analyses
- Produce proformas and post reviews/measurement for key initiatives
Business Analytics-
- Develop and deliver ad-hoc decision support (financial data in addition to operational data)
- Set up and measure test and learns, as appropriate for assigned operational area
- Create, provide, and partner on:
- Descriptive analytics & exploratory data analytics- “What”
- Diagnostic analytics- “Why”
- Predictive analytics- “What if”
- Prescriptive analytics- “Next best action”
Financial Operating Planning-
- Produce assigned deliverables for the annual financial operating plan (as required for assigned operational area) with driver-based targets; guide partner through process and ensure understanding and alignment on all budget submissions
- Deliver single and “rest of year” financial forecasting
Managing & Reporting Business Performance-
- Deliver (thru collaboration with partner) on periodic business reviews
- Prepare Executive (i.e., Leadership, Board Meeting) presentations, schedules & required support (including KPIs and Scorecards)
- Do competitive benchmarking, macro-environment and market share/growth analyses as required for assigned operational area
Strategic Planning-
- Working with assigned operation area, provide the financial view for the longer term (3-5 year) planning process
- Model financial outcomes of the strategies
Data & Systems-
- Provide data sourcing, wrangling, querying & modeling for discovery analytics
- Develop standardized, self-service performance reporting
- Build requirements &validate production ready metrics and reports