Lead Financial Analyst(FP&A)

The Lead Financial Analyst(FP&A) is responsible for supporting a corporate technology alliance function, working closely with business leaders and their leadership teams. This role assists the leaders in the decision making process, providing insightful and action oriented financial analysis, applying best practices, and new perspectives to solve complex problems. They will support implementation and execution of driver-based forecasting and will help define and lead cost efficiency initiatives in partnership with business leaders. This person will interact with leadership to deliver financial information in a concise and meaningful manner. 

This role reports to the Senior Director of Finance - Corporate Technology and will be a hybrid workplace model offering the flexibility to work remotely as well as in our state-of-the-art office building in Alpharetta, GA.
 

What You’ll Do: 

• Prepare and analyzes major financial forecasts.

• Conduct moderately complex financial analyses and reports for department management.

• May be assigned analyses in support of organizations annual budget process, expense/service fee/staffing forecasts, or statistical reporting. 

• Provide proactive insightful financial analysis to enable the BU/COE to reach its short- and long-term strategic and financial objectives. 

• Interface with senior management to deliver financial information in a concise and meaningful manner to foster effective decision making such as analysis of business trends/scenarios and key drivers, development of management reporting to analyze monthly financial and operating results and key metrics.

• Participate in value-added planning, budgeting and forecasting activities. 

• Analyze and track process improvement initiatives. 

• Analyze and driving results for customer, product and/or business unit profitability. 

• Work closely with the Management and Technology teams to track pipeline opportunities and prepare accurate forecasts.
   

What Experience You Need: 

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or a related business discipline

• 3-5 years of experience in a finance-related(FP&A) capacity

• Strong Excel skills

• Financial systems knowledge in either Oracle Hyperion Planning / Essbase, SAP, OBIEE, Business Warehouse/ BPC

• Basic knowledge in accounting GAAP principles (Accrual base accounting, cost amortization, expense recognition)

• Experience with month-end deliverables

What Could Set You Apart:

• CPA/CFA Certification

• Experience in Cloud based IT environments

• Master's degree or Finance/Accounting-related certifications

• Technology Finance experience including preparation and presentation of complex business cases

• Experience with visualization tools i.e. Tableau & Spotfire

• Experience with leadership communication - digesting, compiling, and presenting data

• Knowledge of Technology Infrastructure

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