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Description If you want to work at a fast-growing company and consider yourself an outstanding candidate, you might be right for Robert Half's new Financial Analyst position. In this Financial Analyst role, you will conduct financial modeling on a range of financial products and measure, analyze, and forecast performance in conjunction with operating plans. Additionally, you will be responsible for preparing reports for management and advising management on the allocation of resources to best accomplish objectives. In this role, you will serve as a key business partner in areas such as forecasting, performance reporting, and expense management. In this Financial Analyst position, your duties will aim to support world class strategic and financial planning methods, build long-range operating plans to support business imperatives and develop rolling forecast processes to ensure resources every quarter are consumed at maximum effectiveness. On top of your primary responsibilities, you will also assist with operationalizing and cultivating a more data-driven planning process and improved monthly and quarterly reporting. 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. You will provide variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting the outlook models to reflect operational adjustments. This Financial Analyst role is located in the Westbury, New York, and it is a permanent employment opportunity.

How you will make an impact

• This position requires a flexible individual who is adept at managing expectations and comfortable with handling large amounts of information

• Possess the know-how and be able to explain internal and external drivers impacting performance and trending

• Look over performance to date while assessing potential opportunities and risks

• Lead monthly reporting to business partners on financial results and if any actions are required

• Work alongside cross-functional partners in Accounting and Operations to ensure plans are properly executed

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

• Endorse weekly, quarterly and annual Area/Segment-level Bookings as well as P& L forecasting

• Work 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, strategic resource allocation and prioritization, and event tracking and execution

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

• Collaborate with the Accounting team on the monthly and quarterly financial close process

• Compile and supervise forecasting reports Requirements - Spreadsheet and ERP system experience is ideal, but not required

• Ability to effectively interact, verbally and in writing

• 3+ years of experience in problem solving through statistical analysis or with large data sets highly preferable (such as in derivatives, structured finance, or business analytics or in a similarly demanding and analytical role)

• Outstanding communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, both oral and written, and ability to build as well as deliver effective presentations

• Understanding of Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools required

• Financial analysis & planning (go-to-market experience preferable)

• Strong familiarity with Acquisitions

• Adeptness in Ad Hoc Analysis

• Acquisitions strategy experience

• Solid understanding of account analysis

• Comprehension of Analyze Trends

• Acquisition management experience

• Previous experience working with Analyze Financial Statements

• Acquisition Integration experience

• Analyze Variance experience highly valued

• Earlier work involving Analytical Method Validation

• General familiarity with Ad Hoc Reporting

• Analytical software experience highly preferred

• Practical knowledge of analytics

• Good understanding of Analyze Revenues

• Demonstrated knowledge of Ad Hoc Financial Analysis

• Background working with Analytical Skills

• Ability to simplify complex problems and build solutions

• BA/BS degree in finance or a related field

• Practical knowledge in problem solving through statistical analysis or with large data sets highly preferable (such as in derivatives, structured finance, or business analytics or in a similarly demanding and analytical role)

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