Financial Analyst

If you are skilled and looking for work as a Financial Analyst, you'll be excited about the position Robert Half is currently filling. Candidates who want to become a key partner in forecasting, performance reporting, and expense management will be interested in this opening for a Financial Analyst. If you're good at conducting financial modeling on various financial products, as well as measuring, analyzing and forecasting performance in conjunction with operating plans, you're a good fit for this position. This position's duties will also include advising management on the allocation of resources to best accomplish objectives and preparing reports for management. This Financial Analyst role is a long-term contract / temporary employment opportunity and is located in the Beverly, Massachusetts, area.
What you get to do every day
- Inspect performance to date and assess potential risks and opportunities
- Manage monthly reporting to business partners on financial results and actions required
- Enable effective Business Intelligence (BI) to provide decision making support
- Work next to senior executives on long-term 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
- Assemble and overview forecasting reports
- Operate with Accounting on the monthly and quarterly financial close process
- Monitor monthly and quarterly performance by comparison of actuals versus expectations and enable business partners to handle their resources effectively
- Work closely with cross-functional partners in Accounting and Operations to execute against plans
- Adaptable applicant skilled in dealing with large amounts of information and meeting expectations
- Understand and explain internal and external drivers impacting performance and trending
- Authenticate routine Area/Segment-level Bookings and P& L forecasting- Excellent written, verbal and social communication skills highly desired
- Experience with financial data management processes & systems, e.g. Oracle/Hyperion/SAP Business Objects/SFDC/Tableau- BA/BS degree in finance or a related field
- Financial planning & analysis (go-to-market experience suggested)
- Skilled in the construction and delivery of effective presentations to audiences with wide-ranging backgrounds
- Ability to simplify complex problems and build solutions
- Firm understanding of 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)
- Strong familiarity with financial reporting
- Variance analysis experience required
- Ad Hoc Financial Analysis experience preferred
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP& A) experience highly desired
- Solid understanding of budget forecasting
- Skilled in Spreadsheet and ERP system