Financial Analyst - North America FP&A

$80,000 - $90,000/Yr

Veralto - Wood Dale, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Wood Dale, IL

About the position

As a Finance Analyst for North America, you will play a crucial role in the regional finance team, contributing to financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and commercial business partnering. This position emphasizes the importance of FP&A as a business partnering function to enhance decision-making across departments, requiring collaboration with the North America commercial team and Corporate FP&A and Accounting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance key financial models and performance reports to support executive management decision making.
• Collaborate on full P&L monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting to support monthly forecasting and annual budget processes.
• Upload weekly and monthly financials to reporting system (One Stream) and reconcile to ensure accuracy of corporate deliverables.
• Improve and maintain sales commission plans, modelling and analysis for the regional business.
• Build performance analytics and reports to fulfil on demand requests and support the commercial and corporate teams.
• Provide weekly and monthly reports related to order booking, shipments, backlog, margin, and operating expenses.
• Develop and improve business analytics through utilizing BI and creating specific reports and providing regional, global, and functional leaders with key operating statistics and variance analysis for budgets, forecasts, and key ratios.
• Assist in the continuous improvement, development, modification, and implementation of financial systems as necessary, including learning and using VES tools.
• Provide a variance to plan analysis on the operating expenses and related countermeasures.
• Develop and enhance data automation in the day-to-day financial reporting and dashboard to drive efficiency and effectiveness.

Requirements

• Excellent Excel spreadsheet and data analysis skills.
• Strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an excellent communicator, with the ability to develop relationships and influence at senior levels across the business.
• Demonstrable technical finance ability.
• Qualified/Part Qualified accountant (CIMA, CPA or ACCA).

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience of working with senior non-finance managers.
• Manufacturing experience.
• Experience of working with FP&A tools (One Stream, Power BI etc.).

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan