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Flexan Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst in lincolnshire, Illinois
Job Title: FP&A Director Job Level: Professional
Reports to: VP FP&A FLSA: Exempt
Job Summary:
The FP&A Analyst will lead financial planning, analysis for Flexan with accountability for influencing business decisions aligned to the overall growth strategy and operational priorities. This highly visible position will serve as the business partner to the divisional President and drive financial leadership across the sales, pricing, contracts, operations, and project management in order to ensure strategic finance alignment.
Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Serve as a primary business partner for finance related concerns, including assessing business needs, and developing and implementing financial reporting and insights in support of the division’s strategic priorities.
Spearhead the weekly and monthly forecasting process, including revisions based on business changes and communicating changes to business partners by presenting specific, actionable and forward-looking commentary while offering possible solutions on potential risk.
Lead the annual budgeting process for the division.
Ensure timely completion of assigned tasks in month-end/quarter-end/year-end close activities, including recognition and resolution of atypical items and issues.
Produce thorough financial analysis, including contribution margin, variances vs budget, customer bookings vs budget, open orders spreads, and individual businesses’ revenue vs budget.
Maintain and create dashboards with commentary, including sales activity & pipelines and P&L for Space & Engineered Solutions (MTD/QTD/YTD encompassing details by customer and project)
Maintains and develops various financial models and standard templates for use during the planning processes, ensuring quality, accuracy and focused analytic review
Monitors performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
Create financial models based on analyses to support organizational decision making.
Develops financial plans and reports for organizational leaders. Analyzes financial trends and makes recommendations based on those trends.
Participate in various, ad hoc Flexan finance wide-projects; projects will vary depending on business need
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related field of study
Master’s Degree and/or CPA Preferred
5 -10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis or general accounting experience.
Experience working with or in a government contract environment is required.
Working knowledge of project accounting methodologies.
Ability to operate and work across functional groups in a matrixed organization. To drive the behavior of the business effectively, the Sr. Financial Analyst must be comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills in building strong business partner relationships and are essential in this role.
A mindset towards process improvement and automation.
Advanced knowledge of financial modeling using MS Excel and data visualization tools (e.g. MS PowerBI).
Ability to analyze and interpret complex financial data and identify issues/opportunities and implement solutions.
Organizational skills and attention to detail with ability to independently manage shifting priorities on multiple assignments
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