Senior Financial Analyst - Austin, United States - Jobs for Humanity

Description

Job Description

Member of the finance team for Macmillan Learning, reporting to VP Finance and taking responsibility to be the primary Finance business partner for Marketing, Product, and Institutional organizations.

The candidate should have excellent financial skills and experience in business finance partnership, FP&A, reporting, and ad-hoc analysis. This individual is joining a very active and dedicated team of professionals.

We are looking for someone that is willing to take initiative, dive in head-first, and tackle the new and exciting challenges this current business environment has provided us.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Primary Finance contact and business partner for the Institutional iclicker organization. Lead sales forecasting, analytics, reporting, and P&L support
Primary Finance contact and business partner for the Marketing and Product organizations. Reporting key financial information, analyzing trends, and identifying key risks and opportunities
Coordinate with business partners to prepare annual operating plan, periodic forecasting, and monthly metrics
Analyze financial information, prepare monthly financial review documents, and other ad-hoc analysis
Investigating and explaining variances to budget and forecast. Review charges for appropriate accounting on a monthly basis.

Become knowledgeable in the company's business systems, and financial and operational data structures, in order to create and modify standard reports and prepare ad-hoc analysis.

Qualifications


Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent degree.
Minimum of 3 year's professional experience in financial and operational analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and variance analysis.
Proficiency with Excel is critical. Proficiency with Power BI or Tableau is a plus.
Knowledge of Oracle or SAP ERP and Hyperion or Cognos systems.
Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and presentation skills.
Detail oriented, team player and desire to learn is important.

Exemption Status:
This role is exempt.


Physical Requirements:
Must be able to concentrate and multi-task for long periods of time in a noisy/busy environment. Must be able to travel and work more than 40 hours per week on occasion. Must be able to sit for long periods.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Austin, TX office. Candidates from Austin, TX preferred.

Additional Information

Regular full-time and qualifying part-time employees and their dependents are eligible for Macmillan benefits, effective on the employee's date of hire.

Macmillan also offers health benefits coverage to qualifying same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners (may require additional documentation) of active employees.

Competitive pay and bonus plan
Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity
Generous paid time off, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays (International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Juneteenth, Indigenous People's Day, and more)
Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program
100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance
And much more

Macmillan Learning is a privately-held, family owned company that improves lives through learning.

By linking research to learning practice, we develop pioneering products and learning materials for students that are highly effective and drive improved outcomes.

Our engaging content is developed in partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers. To learn more, please visit or see us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or join our Macmillan Community. Macmillan Learning is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a family-owned global media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, veteran, family and economic status and background, geographical background and status, and perspective.

We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels.

You can read more about our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives here.

The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning.

Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC has developed an affirmative action program in compliance with the NY Department of Education's guidance.

Portions of the affirmative action program are available for review by applicants and employees by contacting Human Resources at Macmillan Learning.

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