Financial Analyst

Overview

Serves as part of the Finance team, responsible for planning, budgeting, forecasting and performing data analysis on business topics across LEG lines of business and serving as a finance partner to various business units to help in decision-making and performance management.

Responsibilities

Performance Management

• Maintains and updates monthly management reporting, including variance and trend analysis, to review with business teams. Assess potential risks or opportunities to the forecast and work with the business to develop mitigation plans when necessary
• Monitors actual versus planned revenues, operating and capital expenditures, and any other relevant financial and operational metrics, to provide timely notification of potential over/under-runs and determine the impact to the plan or forecast
• Collaborates with various stakeholders to propose and recommend processes and tools to promote cost awareness to align expenditures to business goals
• Learn business and use knowledge to assist in preparing market analyses and peer benchmarking
• Continuously monitor and recommend areas for Finance process improvement as needed including data collection, relevant performance metrics and effective visualizations

Planning & Forecasting

• Learn and master business unit-level financial models while making enhancement as necessary
• Contributes to the development of financial plans and forecasts utilizing several financial models and datasets and presents outputs with all relevant assumptions
• Assists in maintaining financial models ensuring inputs, calculations and outputs are functioning as intended while working with appropriate parties to troubleshoot any issues that may arise
• Learn data-collecting methods and explore ways to improve data quality and integration into various financial tools
• Develop analyses to project the financial performance of proposed projects as needed

Completes special projects and other duties as assigned or required based on current priorities.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience                                                  

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related field from four-year college or university; Advanced degree in Finance and Accounting preferred; minimum three years related experience. Must possess a fundamental understanding of finance/accounting concepts.

 

Computer Skills                                                             

To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Power Point. Experience with reporting and data analytics in Power BI is preferred.