Our client located in Schaumburg is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic to join our rapidly growing company. Our client offers competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and opportunities for advancement. Training is provided for this opportunity! You should have a strong background in financial analysis, reporting, and modeling. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse financial projects and contribute to strategic decision-making processes.

Financial Analyst Job Description

The Financial Analyst will be responsible for gathering, developing, translating, and delivering financial information within the company. The primary duties include participating in budgeting and forecasting processes, financial modeling, reporting, treasury oversight, and various ad-hoc projects. This role also requires providing variance analysis on performance against budget and forecasts, working closely with the Finance team and various business unit leaders, controllers, operations managers, and other functional leaders.

Essential Duties:

Forecasting & Budgeting:

- Participate extensively in the annual planning/budget process with the accounting/finance department, senior management, and various department heads.

- Understand the key drivers of business performance in each of the company's lines of business and incorporate that knowledge into business planning.

- Learn current budgeting and forecasting models and contribute to their ongoing development for each line of business and corporate expenses.

- Develop expert-level knowledge of the budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis software used by the company.

- Develop quarterly capital expenditure and cash flow forecasts.

- Drive the budgeting process based on business metrics and measure actual performance against plan and forecast.

- Develop methodologies, dashboards, and models for business line budgeting and reporting.

- Drive simplification and standardization across various company functions.

- Assist with preparing presentations and analytical materials for senior management and the board of directors.

- Oversee and manage the continued development of planning tools, business modeling, and dashboard reporting.

Financial Analysis/Ad-Hoc Analysis:

- Collaborate with business leadership to analyze business opportunities, process improvement programs, and research various industry/company trends.

- Provide in-depth return on investment analysis for intermediate to large capital expenditures.

- Perform post-investment reviews on large capital expenditures to measure performance against expectations.

- Prepare a variety of routine and specialized reports for management to analyze efficiencies and profitability.

- Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators, including revenue, cost of sales, expenses, and capital expenditures.

- Support the senior management team and department heads with analysis as requested.

Treasury:

- Work with the Finance & Treasury Manager and Senior Financial Analyst on reconciling daily cash.

- Develop and maintain relationships with different banking partners.

- Oversee and analyze the company's debt structure.

- Perform ad-hoc payment processes (wire and ACH payments).

Position Qualification Requirements:

To successfully perform this job, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Core Competencies:

- Exemplify company values through safety, honesty, accountability, relationships, respect, inclusivity, and excellence.

- Ability to adhere to established schedules and deadlines.

- Demonstrate leadership and professionalism.

- Ability to read and comprehend detailed financial statements.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

- Present a positive image to fellow employees, external contacts, and the general public.

- Maintain the highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized.

- Ability to think creatively, highly driven, and self-motivated.

- Ability to interpret complex data.

- Must be able to prioritize tasks.

- Ability to work under tight deadlines.

Work Experience:

- 1 to 3 years of work experience in Accounting/Finance, preferably with exposure to financial planning & analysis processes and systems.

Education, Certificates, Licenses, or Designations:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.

Specific Skills:

- Excellent data mining skills required.

- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential for interfacing with senior management on a regular basis.

- Financial analysis and budgeting skills.

- Development of business planning models is a strong plus.

- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

- NetSuite software experience is a plus.

- Intermediate knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications.

- Essbase experience is a plus.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Ability to Commute:

• Schaumburg, IL 60193 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Schaumburg, IL 60193: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person