FP&A Finance COE Analyst (Level 6)

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• Able to root cause and perform ad hoc work arounds with little to no preparation.
• Ability to recognize patterns in order to anticipate and proactively avoid recurring symptoms from occurring further
• Able to work with a high level of independent capability and initiative, while being able adjust daily workloads to shift for competing business priorities, to be able to finish assignments without undue supervision
• Partner with business teams to understand and develop requirements for database enhancements.  Develop, design, and partner with IT to implement system solutions based on requirements. 
• Perform all User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on application enhancements for accuracy, completeness, and functionality.
• Lead Parallel Testing with business partners by identifying key users and leading efforts to complete parallel testing efforts.  Leading requires basic PMO abilities such as developing schedules, establishing kick off meetings, developing test cases, maintaining global office hours for support, and leading status updates with business partners
• Stewardship over all aspect of security: Role provisioning, addition/deletions, reviewing security groups, and performing security audits.
• Identify opportunities and implement solutions to streamline processes and procedures to reduce close times.
• Design, develop, and thoroughly maintain standardized processes and documentation for application support - document work steps necessary to achieve consistent and repeatable results with a high degree of quality.

Additional Skills:

Project Management

• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with minimal guidance/supervision
• Ability to relate project with business objectives and results, integrate with business purpose
• Proactively collect sufficient information to resolve issues and move project tasks forward
• Analyze problems from more than one point of view and able to provide alternatives to complex problems

Teamwork/Leadership Skills

• Ability to collaborate with IT, FP&A, Accounting, and Program Management functions
• Able to independently work with a sense of urgency to finish the assignment without undue supervision
• Ensure lessons learned are applied to future situations promoting continuous improvement
• Work productively in the face of ambiguity or uncertainty

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems.
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience in Accounting or FP&A
• Ability to analyze financial statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statements
• Experience performing Forecasting, Long-term planning, and Budgeting
• Knowledge of US GAAP and able to verbalize how to develop a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, or how-to T-account a Buy/Sale transaction
• Able to draw accurate conclusions from financial and quantitative information
• Moderate or better Excel skills with preferred experience using Hyperion Excel add in: Smart View
• Strong English verbal and written communication skills; able to communicate key issues for action/decision
• Experience with Oracle Hyperion Planning, Financial Data Quality Management (FDM), or Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Ability to become self-taught on read and interpret Hyperion code syntax such as VB Script, Business Rules, Calc Scripts, etc.

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