Senior Financial Analyst - Revenue

ADP - Elk Grove Village, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Elk Grove Village, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A at ADP, you will play a crucial role in financial planning and analysis, focusing on consolidating, planning, forecasting, and analysis activities. This position involves creating financial models, partnering with business units, and supporting finance transformation initiatives. You will work closely with various finance teams and business partners to provide critical analysis and support, ensuring data integrity and accuracy in financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Create the annual operating plan aligned to the strategic plan and perform forecasting to provide visibility into business results.
• Assist in the creation of revenue financial models, review and validate assumptions, and ensure proper reconciliation and data integrity.
• Support and build forecast models using key drivers, trend analysis, and external factors, monitoring the accuracy of existing models.
• Continuously improve forecast accuracy by aligning to key drivers and identifying root causes of previous errors.
• Govern and maintain the Sources of Revenue (SoR) hierarchy, including the creation and deletion of accounts for all business units.
• Standardize calculations and definitions across common revenue drivers.
• Expand and streamline governance of uploads for actuals, plan, forecast, and operating plan cycles.
• Produce and distribute recurring and ad hoc management reports, ensuring financial reporting accuracy and adequate control environment.
• Assist in driving the financial close activity and prepare monthly variance analysis on actual results versus plan/forecast.
• Participate in presentation preparation on results, forecasts, and plans to senior management, making recommendations on opportunities/risks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in relevant data analysis and Excel modeling skills in a Financial Analyst or similar role.
• Ability to think critically and work within set guidelines while navigating uncertainties in projections.
• Comfortable with an uneven work calendar, especially during peak times of month-end close and forecasting cycles.
• Willingness to continually learn and grow knowledge base in financial analysis.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to challenge assumptions and explain positions on revenue metrics.