Senior Financial Analyst

We are currently seeking a qualified individual for the Senior Financial Analyst position, joining our Nottingham, PA team on-site!

Job Summary:
The Senior Financial Analyst will support the Finance Manager and provide financial leadership and decision support for the company. This role will support the annual operating plan process, budget, and forecast process, business analysis performance reporting, assist with the department’s compilation and distribution of management reports, metrics, and analysis of financial trends – including actual results against budget and forecast. The position will also support model development to aid decision making across a variety of opportunities. This position will assist the Finance Manager in providing budget oversight and maintaining financial controls for key financial statement drivers. This is a hybrid role, requiring 3 days on-site per week. 

·         Analyze actual costs against budget, forecast, and historical performance.

·         Understand, validate and challenge the financial performance of various segments

·         Perform research, explain variances, and offer recommendations for improvement in metrics, efficiency, and cost savings

·         Build and maintain budgets at multiple levels ranging from departmental to business unit to operational divisions, adhering to the strategy determined by executive management

·         Monitor trends in relevant markets as well as the emerging environment to which Herrs has an interest and communicate findings to management 

·         Summarize analysis, proposals, and conclusions in succinct presentations for use by management

·         Key player in annual budget process, and ongoing forecast with comparison of results, KPIs, and industry benchmarks

·         Performs periodic cost reconciliation reports, tracking data such as labor, and supply costs

·         Take a proactive role in the development of new reporting formats that drive decision support. Make sure reporting is contemporary, flexible to meet organizational changes

·         Support and participate in ad-hoc requests as well as special project work related to the job. This includes providing support for the ERP project

·         Assist Finance Manager throughout the monthly Integrated Business Planning 

·         Prepare and support monthly KPI reporting needs

·         Assist the budgeting, planning and forecasting processes utilizing the functionality of financial software. Design and maintain reports

·         Analyzes trends in key metrics and drivers to facilitate the monthly review of actual financial results compared to the budgets and forecast at multiple levels

·         Effectively fields questions, discuss financial issues, explain analysis and support financial tracking of key projects with a wide range of audiences with varying levels

·         Professionally communicate, collaborate, and persuade with a positive and productive disposition in a complex environment with a focus on customer service 

·         Develops and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external customers and works proactively to identify and solve problems 

·         Collaborates and shares knowledge across all areas of accounting and finance

·         Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or accounting, and 3-7 years’ financial analysis experience required

·         Strong understanding of the value and application of financial analytics within an organization with the drive and ability to lead change using people, process, data and technology

·         Intellectually curious, desire to be on the cutting edge, inquisitive, continuous learner.

·         Experience in Manufacturing and/or Consumer Package Goods company is preferred.

·         Proven ability to develop models to analyze and make recommendations regarding the business

·         Ability to break down problems into meaningful parts and come to rational and well-thought-out conclusion and communicate them to a diverse audience

·         Ability to gather data from disparate sources, analyze findings and present to make sound business decisions.

·         Formidable business acumen, and Financial Acumen 

·         Comfortable with ambiguity; can handle the unexpected with flexibility.

·         A team player who favors collaborative approaches when working with partners.

·         Experience working in Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP, or another similar ERP 

·         Experience in reporting and analytical tools, such as Power BI, and Silvon.