Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

This is an exciting professional opportunity for someone with the right mix of experience, drive, and professional qualities. We are a growing international video game company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, with offices in Rockville, MD and are looking for a sharp, organized, detail-oriented professional with four plus years of financial planning and analysis experience. The Senior Financial Analyst will be responsible for financial/business analysis including preparation and consolidation of budgets and forecasts, financial system maintenance and management reporting. We are looking for someone with the caliber to become a key member of the FP&A organization. If you are a team player who pays attention to detail, and if you possess the key ingredients below, then this could be the career move you’ve been waiting for.

Responsibilities

• Work as a member of the Corporate FP&A team on variance analysis, monthly and quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting
• Refresh and distribute monthly and quarterly corporate FP&A reporting
• Updating and maintaining the internal forecasting application, Adaptive Planning
• Assist in communicating current corporate financial message through decks and presentation.
• Provide analytical review of support costs during monthly closing process including preparation of expense accruals to submit to accounting
• Proactively identify financial issues and opportunities
• Assist with ad hoc analysis on various projects as required

Qualifications

• Four or more years of experience in financial analysis, reporting and budgeting/forecasting
• Superior intellectual and quantitative analysis capabilities
• Expert working knowledge of advanced Excel features and basic working knowledge of data query tools and data warehousing
• A hands-on approach to data analysis, modeling, and simulation of complex systems
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college/university in Accounting or Finance
• General understanding of accounting; accruals, capital, and P&L
• Ability to work in a time sensitive environment with tight deadlines

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Adaptive Planning or modeling in other Budgeting and forecasting tools.

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