Financial Analyst

W2 job to a staffing company 

Top skills:
-Financial Analysis
-Data Modeling
-P&L Management

Schedule: Fully onsite

KEY RESPONSIBILITES/REQUIREMENTS:

Job responsibilities:
• Create and maintain financial analysis reports for ME team and its respective sales channel.
• Simulate and forecast various sales and promotion related activities
• Analyze actual financial data; create and manage investment tracker for ME and sales channel
• Perform post-mortem analysis on promotions.
• Support the development and execution of budgeting and forecasting activities.
• Strong awareness of sales activities, promotions in market, promotional performance, and costs.
• Works closely with sales team and hold sales counterparts accountable, engages sales to drive improved sellout performance; deep understanding of numbers and ability to interpret sales results, drives actions and results.
• Respond to all ME financial related requests and perform ad-hoc analysis as needed
• Liaison between ME team and financial management team to support financial related requests
• Communicates professional emails to account team, SEA teams, and headquarters and articulates complex updates in simplified way.
• Communicates face to face with account team, SEA teams, and RPM teams

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required; Advanced degree preferred
• 4+ years of experience and must have financial acumen and be highly analytical with strong attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and excel skills a must
• High energy and ability to learn quickly
• Can work under varying work pressures, flexible and change environment.
• Strong desire to work in highly collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications
• Ability to influence strategies and make decisions using a data driven approach
• Ability to use a structured problem-solving approach in an ambiguous situation
• Plan, organize and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to synthesize complex business information and make professional business presentations.
• Ability to establish and develop data models, scenario-based analysis, and other deep analytical approaches to solve business and sales problems
• Ability to work in a team environment, working against individual and shared objectives
• Ability to accept tasks and work to resolve problems, when only broad and general guidelines exist.
• Experience with AI tools such as Claude and Gemini

Necessary Skills & Attributes
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all assigned levels within and outside the company.
• Plan, organize, and prioritize multiple assignments and projects.
• Demonstrated competency in both oral and written communication modes for both internal and external personnel at various levels.
• Ability to collect and understand relevant market data and apply it to financial plan
• Work independently and in a team environment in order to achieve customer business objectives, personal and team goals and complete assignments within established time frames and specifications.
• The ability to develop tasks and work assignments, based on sometime vaguely defined objectives.

Physical/Mental Demands and Working Conditions:
• Work is generally performed in an office environment.
• Operate a computer keyboard and view a video display terminal between 50% - 95% of work time, including prolonged periods of time.
• Requires considerable (90 %+) work utilizing high visual acuity/detail, numeric/character distinction, and moderate hand/finger dexterity
• The movement and transportation of equipment, most of the time under 25 pounds.
• Performs work under time schedules and stresses which are normally periodic or cyclical, including time sensitive job stress, fatigue, unpaid over-time, intellectual challenge, constant technical data feedback, language barriers, and business management stress.
• Machines, tools, equipment, and work aids representative and commonly associated with PCs, printers, and office work areas.
• May require working additional hours beyond normal schedule
• Under very little direct supervision with a high level of responsibility to apply general policies and guidelines