Location: New York,NY, USA
JobID: 210544237
Category: Financial Analysis
JobSchedule: Full time
Posted Date: 2024-11-19T16:11:22+00:00
JobShift:
Base Pay/Salary: Jersey City,NJ $83,600.00-$115,000.00; New York,NY $83,600.00-$115,000.00
Seeking a motivated individual with a strong foundation in finance and business management to support our team in driving financial analysis, budgeting, and strategic planning. The ideal candidate will have excellent analytical skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.
As an HR Finance & Business Management Associate within our New Joiner Experience F&BM team you will help business performance by providing strategic financial analysis along with forecasting, budgeting, timely reporting, and the development of new reporting capabilities. You will always be looking for and devising ways to streamline and minimize cycle times through automated applications and process improvement.
We are seeking a dynamic Finance and Business Management Associate. The ideal candidate will assist in financial planning, businesses analysis, and develop strategies to promote growth.
You will also help develop recommendations effecting business procedures and operations and maintain financial and reporting systems. In addition, you will assist the department and other team members with special projects or components of other projects as needed. This F&BM role supports the New Joiner Experience organization within HR.
Job responsibilities:
* Providing day-to-day support for the ED and VP Business Managers for NJE
* Managing annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rational and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports
* Performing Efficient reporting, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
* Work with Central HR FP&A, LOB P&A teams, and other BMs across HR F&BM to provide a consolidated view of HC and expenses in NJE each month
* Respond to monthly budget management requests from the Central HR FP&A (e.g. outlook adjustments, risks & opportunities, walk commentary, MoM movements, etc._
* Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives
* Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
* Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
* Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
* Support with vendor expense review and management as a key central point of contact for NJE, working with NJE Vendor management team to pull together information for requests and consolidate for review by NJE Finance Lead
* Helping to design new reporting and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management and preparing analysis and insights for materials (papers, presentation decks, slides etc.) across a wide range of topics and multiple different teams, often for senior management
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
* 2+ years of work experience in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background
* Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field
* Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
* Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
* Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
* Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
* Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
* Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skillsProven track record for executing on special projects / assignments with often little lead time or information
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
* Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
* Desire to expand technical skills through automation tools such as Alteryx & Tableau
* Proactive and results-oriented, ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines
* Team oriented, ability to build strong partnerships and manage stakeholders at all level
* Strong understanding and experience with Excel and PowerPoint