About the position
The Senior Financial Analyst will support the successful financial outcomes for Solera's Dealer Solutions Business Units and/or strategic initiatives by providing detailed, timely, and insightful analysis. This role will provide ongoing support for key topics such as revenue and results analysis and reporting, contribution margin and financial trend analysis, analytics and forecasting of key revenue and cost drivers in the business and provide support for finance reviews. The successful individual in this role will utilize their keen eye for detail and ability to reconcile and align multiple data sources to present well-structured and clear analysis and reporting for a senior audience to consume.
Responsibilities
- Become embedded with departmental leaders across the Dealer Solutions Business Unit, establish trust and quickly understand the business, economics and metrics
- Focus on sources of variability, understand causes and implement data-driven forecasting improvements and insights as part of variance and forecast analysis
- Heavy data mining to develop robust models on trends, key business drivers and financial results to prioritize and plan key decisions including revenue forecasting
- Communicate and work with the business and accounting on close, forecast, variance and ad hoc items
- Design, prepare, and automate periodic dashboards / reports of operating results, trends and metrics for the sales and senior leadership teams
- Ability to analyze key business drivers, then translate the findings in terms of financial impact to the business
- Support preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting packages and key metrics
- Work with corporate Solera FP&A towards corporate initiatives and reporting requirements of the business unit to the total company consolidation, including monthly business unit uploads to TM1 of results, KPIs and forecast loads
- Analyze, review and challenge business units' forecast assumptions
- Monitor business performance against KPIs and strategic plans
- Ad hoc reports as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field, MBA a plus
- 3-5+ years of experience in FP&A role, with experience across revenue, margin, and expenses
- Strong financial acumen (forecasting, variance analysis, report and analytical analysis of revenue/gross and contribution margin or such financial trends)
- Superior financial modeling and using analysis to influence decision-making, including prior experience in finance and/or strategy-related role
- Experience compiling data from multiple sources and summarizing to drive towards goal
- Clear communication both verbally and via presentation of financials
- Self-motivated / Self-starter with a strong work ethic, inquisitive, enjoy problem solving and looking to seek and drive solutions/improvements towards results
- Knowledge of financial and reporting process optimization a plus
- Advanced skills with Excel required, powerpoint and word preferred; experience with budgetary planning software preferred (TM1), ERP (Cognos, Oracle) and/or analytic tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, etc.) a plus
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