Senior Financial Analyst

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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for supporting various accounting, planning, forecasting, causaling and reporting processes and analyses in support of Rockwell’s IT function. The role reports to the Global Analytics and Insights organization and engages with business partners in IT to develop financial plans, forecasts and analyze actual performance against those goals.

The mission of the Global Analytics and Insights organization is to provide business and functional partners with information to manage performance and support decision making, while driving operational excellence in the process. The Senior Financial Analyst will own certain reporting and analytics for the IT function. The role utilizes global consolidation financial systems (Oracle EPM) and SAP to provide analytics and insight on a variety of key financial metrics including commercial expenses and capital project spending.

The Senior Analyst also works to automate processes and support simplification and standardization efforts. The role entails business partnering, mainly supporting stakeholders based in North America.

Essential Functions:

• Perform accounting adjustments for various IT activities

• Develop financial plans utilizing business partner input and leveraging standard tools and processes to enable clear explanations for financial performance in a particular region for the IT function

• Maintain and enhance standard reporting including regional performance, trends, and key variances to plan, forecast and prior period

• Developing and advocating for automation, simplification, and standardization in reporting

• Create ad hoc analyses and respond to business inquiries to understand material drivers of financial performance

• Present and explain financial performance and key variances and changes vs. forecast, plan and prior year

• Assist with team training efforts and help develop co-workers’ FP&A skillsets and systems knowledge

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, information technology and/or business administration

• 3-5 years of experience in finance/accounting with an FP&A emphasis

• Strong verbal and written communication skills both in Spanish and English

• Proven business partner - results oriented, resourceful, service driven professional

• Experience with SAP, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and PowerBI, preferred

• Knowledge of MS Offices, specifically strong Excel skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization

IPC (Information Processing Capability) 

• Ability to interpret large amounts of data and communicate effectively to clearly present financial concepts to key stakeholders

• Ability to manage competing demands, accept criticism and constructive feedback, while being extremely adaptable and flexible

• Strong business acumen

• Ability to collaborate effectively within a matrix organization and influence others

Temperament 

• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and proactively drive issue resolution

• Successfully transfers skills and knowledge to team and other individuals 

• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question partners across functional areas 

• Seeks and incorporates relevant perspectives when assessing a situation, making a decision or presenting 

Accepts Role Requirements 

• Minimal travel - less than 10%

• Ability to flex work schedule to accommodate business needs and working across multiple time zones

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a time-sensitive sometime unstructured environment

• Work independently with minimal supervision

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