Finance Analyst - Consumer Consolidation

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news-with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.
A Little About Us:
The Operations Finance teams help to drive success by providing our business partners and key stakeholders with the operational support, insights, and direction essential to growing the business. We're responsible for driving the financial forecast process and providing senior leaders with reporting and analysis on key metrics.
A Lot About You:
You are a self-starter with a love of data, analytics, and operations. You work well in teams and individually. You thrived in the past and are ready to roll up your sleeves and add value to the finance organization while learning a few things along the way. You enjoy collaborating on a whiteboard, analyzing complex datasets, and presenting your solutions. You have fun, are a tech junkie, and use Yahoo/AOL products.
Your Day:
As a Finance Analyst on the Consumer FP&A team, you will be responsible for gathering and consolidating large amounts of data and providing business insights through meaningful visual graphs/data to tell a cohesive story.

• Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  
  • Work with large data sets and provide insights into financial performance. This includes gathering data, performing analysis, creating visualizations, and utilizing your technical expertise as well as a variety of internal tools and/or collaborating with other teams as needed.
  • Gather and interpret data to create accurate, meaningful, and visually appealing reports/packages on a daily, weekly, and/or monthly basis. Communicate insightful data-supported narratives to finance and business stakeholders.
  • Become an expert at using a variety of internal data systems and assist with automating and scripting repetitive tasks where needed.
  • Drive best-in-class analytics to extract key insights from operational and financial trends. Also, evaluate variances and/or issues, and help the business recalibrate and drive forward.
  • Work closely with system/data teams to lead standardization, automation, and/or simplification of the reporting and forecast process.

• Minimum Qualifications:
  
  • 3+ years of professional experience
  • BS/MS in a highly-quantitative field (Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, EE) is preferred
  • B2B or advertising experience preferred
  • Answer complex business questions via data analysis and visualizations to enable business owners to make critical decisions.
  • Knowledge of and experience with data visualization tools (Microstrategy Dossier, Tableau, Looker etc).
  • Demonstrated use of analytics and metrics to drive decisions.
  • Team player in driving growth results combined with a positive attitude
  • Problem solver who never stops thinking about ways to improve.

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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US Only: Please be aware that Yahoo requires all employees entering a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events) are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19. This position will require the successful candidate to obtain and show proof of a vaccination to enter a U.S. Yahoo office and/or attending a company event (including client events). Yahoo is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and local law.
The compensation for this position ranges from $56,625.00 - $111,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.
Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don't require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you'll be given notice to make arrangements.
If you're curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.
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