Financial Analyst

As a Financial Analyst, you will contribute to Boston Dynamics's short-term and long-term profitable growth by assisting the Director of FP&A to implement and drive business planning, budgeting, cost control and reporting for the assigned business/product unit and functional areas. Every day, you will work with the finance team, middle managers and senior leaders on budgeting, long term strategic financial planning and analysis. To thrive in this role, you must have strong communication skills, proficiency in excel and the ability to prioritize tasks, work on multiple engagements and manage rapidly changing assignments.

Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. For years, our awe-inspiring viral videos on YouTube have shown the world what remarkably capable robots can do. Now we are quickly becoming a recognized leader in automation solutions for industrial applications and warehouse logistics.

Day to day activities:

• Contribute to building out and managing the financial planning processes and monthly reviews of performance, profitability, variance analysis, and long-term modeling
• Support the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes and provide monthly expense reporting and variance analysis to cost center managers
• Work with Accounting team to understand gross margin and inventory trends and provide timely and insightful financial analysis of costs and margins to business/product unit leaders
• Partner with assigned business/product unit leaders to support the financial component of strategic planning and long range planning/business reviews
• Partner with Demand Planning to review, challenge and contribute to monthly sales forecasts and identify risks and opportunities for assigned business/product unit
• Support varying levels of management by evaluating impact of operational decisions
• Participate on cross-functional teams in a matrix environment and perform various ad hoc financial projects as required

Desired skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• Minimum two years of experience in general or cost accounting is preferred
• Knowledgeable in excel and experience with multi-dimensional databases
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Previous experience in high tech, software, or manufacturing industries preferred
• Previous experience in financial analysis, forecasting and budgeting, variance analysis, and long-term modeling
• Strong communication skills
• Experience in creating and presenting reports to senior management

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.