Sr. Financial Analyst, FP&A

About the position

Want to use your leadership and financial skills to help the company deliver on their key strategic goals and initiatives? This is a critical role for our FP&A team that works with the executive team and cross functionally to help shape location performance for over 230 affiliated office locations. Reporting to the Manager of FP&A, you’ll help develop short-term and long-term strategic financial planning, reporting, and strategic initiatives. This position is located at the GEDC Practice Support Center in Southfield, MI and would require an on-site presence at least 4 days per week. During the initial training period, full in-office attendance (five days/week) may be required.

Responsibilities

• Developing Strategic Financial Plans - financial and strategic planning for Great Expressions.
• Driving long-term Financial Planning - partnering with different departments to assess overall corporate goals.
• Building key storylines and insights - drive long-term strategic objectives; acts as thought partner to Regional Leadership.
• Collaborates with Senior Leadership - plan and analyze business plans by identifying gaps between business goals and corporate objectives.
• Act as the lead finance support for regions – Prepare monthly financial reporting including variance and financial statement analysis.
• Interact with the Region VP to point out revenue and cost opportunities to improve the EBITDA performance for the region.
• Proactively develop and share ideas – as a champion for continuous improvement in financial processes and margin reporting.
• Communication and Presentation - Provides strategic input for business decisions by producing complex financial models.
• Lead period P&L review with the Region teams, covering key variances and escalating meaningful trends.
• Acquisition Integration – This role will play a key player in the development and analysis of future acquisitions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• 4-6 years of applicable finance experience in public or private industry.
• Strong accounting and financial analysis skills.
• Proven ability to model and analyze to synthesize insight.
• Experience with ERP / CPM software, Workday Adaptive Planning strongly preferred.
• Advanced/Expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice-to-haves

• CPA a plus.
• Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or Domo a plus.