Job Opening — SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
To apply send resume to Kim Adler at kim@corporatecollaborations.com
Summary
Serve as an internal ‘Business Consultant’ to VPs and General Managers. Develop, interpret and implement complex financial and accounting concepts or techniques for financial planning and control in order to drive business results, by performing the following duties. This position reports to the Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis.
Duties and Responsibilities
Value Creation:
• Be an expert on business unit and industry value creation and how and where value has been created in the past and how and where it will likely be created in the future.
• Reconcile the value of discrete decisions with the likely value created to the Company based on that deep understanding of the businesses’ value creation drivers.
• Fully understand competition / dealer / customer and can anticipate likely competitive, dealer and customer actions & reactions in strategy formulation.
• Develop strategic options and plans to test them, and identify uncertainty and success drivers.
Business Analysis:
• Identify key business problems and opportunities where analysis will provide important insights.
• Lead analytical efforts to advance business results including multiple scenario analyses with results based on multiple contingencies / variables (e.g., marketing, pricing, product margins and cost savings, manufacturing sourcing, capacity planning, new product initiatives, acquisitions, competitive SWOT analysis, customer value assessments, portfolio analysis, opportunity assessment, competitive response modeling, target setting, deal structures etc.).
Financial Analysis:
• Evaluate complex profit plans, operating records, and financial statements and has a comprehensive knowledge of how and when to apply specific cost, capital, and financial analysis and statistical tools, and use them appropriately.
• Penetrate key issues quickly and thoroughly, identify key drivers, demonstrate the interrelationships between variables and the impact of those variables on the business as well as any resulting cost / benefit tradeoffs, and perform in depth reconciliations that explain differences and provide perspective.
• Proactively and creatively work with business partners in other functions to resolve key uncertainties in assumptions and develop risk mitigation and project optimization options.
• Complete projects that are framed to identify linkage to strategy and to identify “real” options”.
Change Management:
• Coordinate with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare recommendations regarding financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, trending future business requirements, government requirements, and operating forecasts.
External Focus:
• Identify, track and forecast industry trends (internal and external metrics) and recommend changes / improvements accordingly.
• Analyze business information integrated from multiple sources and identifies potential opportunities.
• Monitor external regulatory / competitive / industry environment, analyze new and revised requirements / information and engage with internal resources to develop response plans or build into business strategies.
• Establish and maintain databases of pertinent information for use in analyzing future plans and forecasts.
• Understand data availability across business areas.
Communication:
• Communicate financials simply and clearly such that business partners clearly understand the financial implications of recommended and alternative courses of action.
• Be an expert at framing complex business decisions, reflecting the real option value of individual decisions as part of a sequence of decisions including condensing analysis down to the key conclusions and recommended actions and influencing outcomes.
• Effectively explain the details of external opinions to Company management to ensure incorporation into plans or positions on issues, contracts, deals, compliance approach, etc.
Internal Controls:
• Provide interpretation of corporate financial policies, accounting theory, or customer financial regulations.
• Identify policy and disclosure issues and handles appropriately.
• Conduct special studies to analyze complex financial actions and prepares recommendations for policy, procedure, control or action.
Accounting:
• Maintain moderate level of U.S. GAAP knowledge across most business areas, sufficient to identify potential issues and consultation needs.
• Maintain broad knowledge of policies across multiple business areas, with extensive knowledge in several pertinent areas.
• Apply knowledge of accounting processes in several business areas. Implements new methods to improve processes and information reporting.
• Apply knowledge of financial reporting implications in multiple business areas including impact on general ledger, income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
• Anticipates and resolves potential issues.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Qualifications include:
Strategic Vision:
• Take a vision from the ‘top’ and interpret implications for one’s area of responsibility (process or organization) and translate broad organizational direction (vision) into more immediate changes.
Communication Skills:
• Exceptional communication skills including the ability to make recommendations to upper management, develop consensus, and persuade others to follow recommendations.
• Deliver concise effective oral presentations using engaging visuals and with comfortable speech and can adjust to changing circumstances and time constraints.
• Prepare concise effective written memos, issue sheets and/or reports for a variety of audiences, including senior management, citing only relevant facts and rationale which supports conclusions / recommendations.
• Be direct and effectively communicate both good and bad news, providing options and influencing decisions.
• The individual must “know his / her audience” and use the appropriate information and level of explanation to lead to a decision / drive action and have the ability to simplify information and reports through standardization, structure, and integration with other reporting mechanisms.
• Leverage strong relationships and understanding of multi-functional & multi-organizational work to create breakthrough insights in analysis and leverage external interactions and relationships to find new business opportunities (products, processes, capabilities, technologies, etc.) and reapply them inside the Company or solves an issue (i.e. transfer funds to a remote bank, meet regulatory requirements).
• Leverage external relationship opportunities / issues across functions and business units for resolution; sometimes going beyond typical F&A responsibilities.
Change Management:
• Design, implement, and facilitate change management including assembling design team, gaining alignment, and allocating resources needed to facilitate design process.
• Coach and develop individuals and teams involved in driving the change and use appropriate project management skills - as needed to implement change.
• Handle the human-side of transition - including ‘resistance to change’, by anticipating and / or identifying emerging issues and developing plans to address.
Prioritization:
• Easily handle multiple analytical projects by quickly grasping concepts, focusing on priorities, being decisive, and anticipating potential questions and needs.
Technical Expertise:
• Be an “expert” at using a wide range of computer-based analytical technologies.
• Identify, assess and advocate new information gathering tools.
• Train others in key data sources, concepts, and/or laws and advanced applications of existing and new analytical technologies.
• Improve or create systems to gather, manage and analyze information.
People and Organizational Development:
• Coordinate development of a brand or function strategy as the “FP&A” representative on a strategy team and proactively teach / train business partners and more junior F&A people.
• Coach others on effective communication and educate and facilitate communication across relevant parties (hierarchy, customers, business partners and key constituencies) to gain alignment.
Fiduciary Responsibility:
Demonstrate fiduciary responsibility as some of the projects will require a high degree of confidentiality (acquisitions, reorganizations, cost reduction plans, etc.)
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting / Finance along with four to eight years of corporate finance experience. MBA or equivalent combination of experience and education is required.
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Location
Ohio | Compensation
Highly Competitive |
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Industry
Medical Devices/Equipment | Opportunity Date
July 14, 2010 |
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