Financial Analyst

Summary

The ideal candidate will support the Chief Financial Officer and help shape the business reporting, providing accurate and timely financial information to assist the business in their decision-making. They will help drive efficiencies around the month-end, budgeting/forecasting, and general financial reporting. The candidate must have a proactive and adaptive approach to work as well as a willingness and interest in understanding the nature of the business.

Essential Functions

Job duties include, although are not limited to:

• Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
• Work with the senior leadership and their wider teams to ensure budgets, forecasts and monthly reporting roll up are completed in a timely fashion and to the required level of detail
• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and Excel dashboards
• Enhance the weekly finance reporting, ensuring the delivery of pre-show and post-show flash financials
• Own the bottom-up cash flow planning during budgeting and forecasting, coordinating the input from the Business Units
• Risks and Opps are flagged as necessary by BU and escalated as necessary
• Develop the teams use of BW reporting (add on to SAP) by becoming BW Super User and working out how to get the best out of this tool for our teams reporting.
• Support reporting from BPC (add on to SAP) used for managing forecasting and actuals reporting
• Assist in a range of projects across multiple departments as assigned by the Executive Committee
• Detail oriented and must be able to work and communicate effectively across all departments

Internal Relationships

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

External Relationships

Has regular contact with resort leaders.

Qualifications:

Financial planning and strategy, statistical analysis, reporting skills, forecasting, analyzing information, process improvement, detail-oriented, strong work ethic, self-motivated, positive attitude, team player.

Education/Experience Requirements

• 
  Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting; MBA preferred
• A minimum of 5+ years directly relevant work experience
• Experience with strategic planning, budgeting, investment and profitability analysis
• Knowledgeable of accounting and GAAP is preferred
• Ability to deliver accurate results while working under time-sensitive conditions
• Capable of managing competing priorities while working across multiple departments
• Self-motivated and comfortable working in fast fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Familiar with using SAP and BPC software is preferred
• Ability to work extended and flexible hours during peak seasons is required

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