Salary Mid-Point: $70,000
Location: Chicago IL
Job Type: Permanent
Our Fortune 500 client is adding a pivotal Financial Analyst to their Strategy and FP&A team. If you are targeting a new opportunity with a robust scope, keep reading them share your resume for consideration.
- Report financial status by preparing and analyzing financial plans, forecasts and reports.
- Track financial status by monitoring variance from the plan, and determine financial status by comparing and analyzing plans and forecasts with actual results
- Seek to improve the financial status by analyzing results and variances; identifying trends and recommending actions
- Create financial decision support for Financial Planning & Analysis
- Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data
- Increase productivity by helping to develop automated applications; eliminating duplications and coordinating information requirements
- Provide information to the broader the Finance team as well as management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making presentations of findings, analyses and recommendations
- Assist in Monthly Operations Review, identification of areas for cost reductions and operational improvements, annual budget process, periodic forecasting and periodic analysis of operations performance
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree (Accounting, Finance, Business or related discipline)
- 2-3 years related experience
- Broad knowledge of accounting and finance practices/principles and preparation of strategic recommendations to management
- Advanced excel skills
- CPA preferred, but not required