Financial Accountant
Full Time
Job Description
- You will partner with us to support budget owners in analyzing areas for potential spend savings and recommending solutions for effectively managing their spend
- You will provide monthly reporting around spend and assist in providing ad-hoc analyses to help support business decisions
- You will recommend and lead improvements to deliver high-quality results as well as implement new standards/processes across the team
- Drive the quarterly and monthly forecasting cycles for specific business units within the Organization
- Utilize SAP and Anaplan to track, manage, and report all spend forecasts
- Work closely with Finance Business Partners and HR to track headcount including to-be-hired activity and provide ad-hoc financial analyses for fixed costs
- Own quarter-end activities including preparing and submitting cross-charges and accruals as well as being the primary liaison between Corporate Accounting and the Sales Finance team
- Lead special projects including building new models/templates, revamping existing processes, and ad-hoc analyses that arise as the business changes
- Successful candidates will have high attention to details, excellent analytical skills, and a self-starter mentality. In addition, strong professionalism and communication skills are crucial in order to proactively partner with key stakeholders
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- BA/BS in Finance or Accounting preferred
- Minimum 3 years finance experience
- Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, analyzing, and managing spend
- Candidate should be willing to work on EMEA time-zone as the person may be required to catch-up with FBP/Business partner based in EMEA/AMER
- Strong aptitude and expertise with excel, macros, power bi, data management
- Excellent skills in communicating, listening, planning, and organizing
- Problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Experience with SAP, BPC and Business Objects is a plus
- You build strong customer relationships and gain insights into their needs. You identify opportunities that benefit our customers and build and deliver solutions to meet their expectations
- You follow through on commitments and make sure others do the same. You act with a clear sense of ownership, taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures. You establish clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results, including opportunities to give and receive feedback
- You have the passionate self-belief and trust necessary to be bold and brave in your actions to take controlled risks and encourage others to challenge your ideas, and delivery strong results
- You are comfortable working with colleagues at all levels and from all over the world to achieve shared objectives. You partner with others—representing your own interests while being fair to others. You easily gain the trust and support of others and credit others for their accomplishments and contributions
- You are a self-starter who steps up to handle new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. You take action—identifying and seizing opportunities without unnecessary planning
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