Financial Analyst III

Service Corporation International

Houston, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounting, Analysis Skills, Banking Services, Budget Management, Budgeting, Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, Customer Relations, Data Management, Detail Oriented, Earnings Per Share (EPS), Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Mathematics, Financial Metrics, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Reporting, Financial Trend Analysis, Forecasting, Identify Issues, Internet Search, Leadership, Mathematics, Microsoft Excel, Model Review, Procedure Development, Process Management, Project Evaluation, Project Schedule, Project Tracking, Quality Control, Quantitative Analysis, Regulations, Requirements Management, Risk Analysis, Statistics, Strategic Planning, Sustainability, Testing, Time Management, Variance Analysis, Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
LOCATION
Houston, TX
POSTED
9 days ago

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

Develops and maintains complex financial models that accurately project and reflect business performance. Manages Financial-modeling projects such as complex budgeting and accounting functions; conducts financial, statistical, and analytical studies; prepares financial reports. Continually develops new tools and modeling to improve forecasting accuracy, sustainability, and processes.

Financial Analyst III

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Assist in maintaining financial forecast models for the projection, monitoring, and real-time analysis of corporate earnings / EPS, cash flow trends, operating and financial leverage metrics, strategic planning initiatives, and pro-forma transactions
  • Assist in developing new forecast models, improve existing models, and develop new analysis tools, routines, and reports to increase forward-looking visibility into business
  • Participate in producing annual forecast book to document model output schedules, model assumptions, and summarize projected results for Sr. Mgmt.
  • Collaborates with project sponsor and owner on business and functional requirements. Writes business requirements, functional requirements, and identifies project team member resources and responsibilities; review with Project sponsor and owner. Develops appropriate activity tasks, testing, communications, or similar to support the project delivery as well as tracking status and identifying milestones and risks. Schedules and conducts project meetings ensuring issues are identified and resolved. Responsible for on-time accurate project implementation.
  • Manages annual budgeting process, monthly and quarterly variance analysis.
  • Collaborate with finance & accounting leadership to complete projects, improve analysis practices, address project priorities, and interact with other corporate departments to manage data flow and deadlines. Continually recommends improvements to analysis, modeling, tools, and processes

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field

Experience:

  • At least five (5) years of Financial analysis, consulting, banking, or accounting experience with emphasis on quantitative and financial analysis, forecasting, and scenario/sensitivity analysis
  • Experience building, modifying, maintaining, and reviewing financial models, primarily in MS Excel, for the purpose of assisting and advising senior level managerial decision making
  • Corporate finance experience desired, including capital structure and leverage analysis, calculating WACC, peer group ratio and valuation metrics analysis, financial statement analysis

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Detail oriented with a careful eye for quality control and presentation of work
  • Motivated with interest in analysis approach, improving models and analysis, proposing new ways to view things, helping formulate opinions and action steps based on analysis performed
  • Self-motivated and driven to produce results within tight deadlines and with maximum quality allowed within time constraints
  • Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external clients
  • Ability to interpret and explain complex rules, regulations, policies and procedures; make decisions on a variety of complex matters in accordance with established procedures.

Postal Code: 77019

Category (Portal Searching): Finance and Accounting

Job Location: US-TX - Houston

About the Company

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Service Corporation International

We're more than North America's largest provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services. We are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters who are devoted to the communities where we live and work. We are more than 20,000 dedicated individuals who provide caring assistance to families in need, honor veterans and public servants and deliver lifesaving programs to help keep children and seniors safe. We operate under the umbrella of the Dignity Memorial network of 1,800 funeral homes and cemeteries. Dignity Memorial providers care for more than 300,000 families each year and understand the importance of thoughtful, personalized arrangements. We believe creating meaningful ways to pay tribute to a loved one begins with compassion and is shaped by the understanding that each life is truly unique. For us, there is no greater responsibility than honoring and preserving the story of one's life.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Health Care and Social Assistance
FOUNDED
1962