Financial Analyst

HireStrategy is seeking a Financial Analyst to join a company in the Washington D.C. metro area. The ideal candidate will be helping establish new, actionable, operating metrics, budgets, forecasts and reports.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the annual P&L budgeting process and subsequent monthly/quarterly forecasts across shared services
• Performance management through monthly variance analysis of budgeted, forecasted and actual financial performance, clearly interpreting and documenting variance drivers
• Assist in identifying and implementing financial and operationally relevant Key Performance Indicators and dashboards across area of responsibility
• Work in concert with sales operations in supporting the sales teams with analytics and measurement around strategic initiatives.
• Proactively develop the supported functional areas proficiency in interpreting and acting on financial/quantitative metrics to improve organizational performance; assist in developing and measuring action plans
• Execute ad-hoc financial/quantitative analysis and various reporting requests in support of the business
• Maintain a working knowledge of current principles and methodologies in financial reporting; profit planning, cost accounting and profitability analysis best-practices as they apply to service organizations

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• Bachelor of Science in Finance, Accounting
• 1-3+ years of finance experience
• Variance analysis of P&L statements
• High proficiency in MS Office, particularly with Excel and PowerPoint
• Functional knowledge of financial reporting systems and methodologies for reporting using business intelligence tools
• Effective oral and written communication skills with a strong ability to efficiently communicate financial results to both financially and non-financially oriented persons
• Initiative; originate productive actions without specific instructions; generate new ideas, processes and approaches to meet business needs