Financial Analyst - Schaumburg, United States - Connect Search, LLC

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    Description

    The ideal candidate will be responsible for using their analytical mindset to analyze and interpret financial data, then relating it to potential business trends and issues. This candidate will feel comfortable using insights they have discovered to communicate important themes and discoveries to company leadership.

    Responsibilities

    • Participate heavily in the annual planning/budget process with accounting/finance department, senior management, and various department heads
    • Drive the budgeting process based on business metrics and measure the same for Actual vs. Plan and Actual vs. Forecast.
    • Perform post-investment reviews on large capital expenditures to measure performance against expectation
    • Work with Finance & Treasury Manager and Sr. Financial Analyst on reconciling daily cash
    • Consistently analyze financial information based on both routine and ad-hoc reports
    • Interpret financial data to recognize changing trends, patterns, and their meaning related to key performance indicators
    • Communicate financial insights suggesting business issues to management

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, or Finance or equivalent experience
    • 1 to 3 years of work experience in Accounting/Finance, preferably with exposure to financial planning & analysis processes and systems
    • Excellent data mining skills required
    • Financial analysis and budgeting skills
    • Development of business planning models a strong plus
    • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel
    • NetSuite software experience is a plus
    • Intermediate knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications
    • Essbase experience a plus