Lead Financial Analyst

Job Description:

Company Overview:
At AT&T we’re redefining the future of connectivity. At our core is a passion to serve our customers with products and services that create connections, improve lives and allow millions to share the stories and experiences that matter. Our Corporate teams are fueled by innovation and a desire to connect the world in meaningful ways. Join our team and bring your bold ideas, supporting and transforming our business across areas like marketing, finance and more.

Overall Purpose: Conduct comprehensive financial analysis, ensuring accurate forecasting, strategic planning, and data-driven recommendations to achieve and optimize organizational financial objectives.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis: Lead financial planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning. Provide strategic recommendations to senior management based on financial analysis and projections. Analyze financial performance against key business metrics to document and assess progress.
• Financial Reporting and Data Interpretation: Prepare and present comprehensive financial reports (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements) ensuring accuracy and compliance. Conduct in-depth financial analysis to identify trends and provide actionable insights for decision-makers.
• Budget Management and Financial Modeling: Oversee the preparation and management of company budgets, monitor actual performance, and analyze variances. Develop and maintain financial models to support business initiatives, investments, and financial opportunities.
• Team Leadership and Development: Mentor junior financial analysts, providing training and development opportunities to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Other Duties as Assigned: Identify financial risks and develop mitigation strategies, ensure compliance with financial regulations, streamline financial processes, communicate financial insights to stakeholders, and support audits and reviews.

Job Contribution: An experienced professional, recognized as an expert, creatively resolving complex issues with broad and in-depth knowledge. Leads significant projects with strategic autonomy, influencing executive decisions. Mentors less experienced staff, implements long-term plans impacting the organization, and frequently collaborates with senior leadership.

The successful candidate should have the following skills:

•    Strong Power BI/Visualization skill

•    Quantitative/Analytical Skills: ability leverage large amounts of data and apply quantitative methods including statistics in drawing inferences. 

•    Financial Concepts:  in-depth understanding of financial concepts including NPV, IRR, FCF, time value of money and economic concepts such as marginal cost, sunk cost and fixed cost.

•    Problem- Solving Skills: ability to connect the dots and get at the root cause.

•    Communication Skills: deliver clear and concise written and oral presentations.  Conclusions should be logical and supported by data.

•    Collaboration/Team Player - engages team, business partners and other stakeholders – avoids surprises. 

•    Culture Contributor: more interested in getting it right than being right.  Celebrates team’s success and is a champion of Win As One.

•    Persona/ Qualities: candidate should be intellectually curious, have strong career ambitions, passionate about creating value for the company, strives to understand the business, champions continuous improvements, embraces technology and is a continuous learner.

•    CFA/CPA/MBA in Finance desired

Work Day Schedule:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted.  No relocation is offered

Work Location:  Dallas, TX

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired. 5+ years of related experience. Certification is required in some areas.

Our Lead Financial Analyst earn between $118,800 - $178,200 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. From health insurance to tuition reimbursement and paid time off to discounts on products and services just to name a few. There is a lot to be excited about around here. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan