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Financial Analyst
Are you looking for the opportunity to advance your career in an exciting, fast-paced environment at a rapidly growing and innovative technology company? If so, the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team at Park Place Technologies is seeking a Finance professional to join our team in Cleveland, OH. This position will work closely with senior leaders, be involved in producing long-term operating plans / forecasts and work on ad hoc business critical projects in support of key strategic company initiatives. If you’re looking to meaningfully grow your career by working alongside Executive leadership to solve business critical problems, and position yourself for upward career mobility, we want to hear from you!
What you’ll be doing:
- Effectively communicate the status of planning, forecasting and other strategic projects and related reporting throughout the Company.
- Identify and analyze new key performance indicators to drive performance improvement and operational efficiencies across all functional areas.
- Identify opportunities to improve manual and automated systems to realize process efficiencies in finance and/or all other functional areas.
- Develop, refine and maintain financial models used for forecasting and planning purposes by reporting unit and geography.
- Contribute to a monthly re-forecasting process and the analysis of actual results, including the preparation of related reports and analyses.
- Responsible for other recurring or ad hoc internal reports and analyses as required and/or requested by Executive Leadership
- Assign, direct, monitor and review work of those involved in the budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Collaborate with the accounting team to ensure accuracy in financial reporting of budgeted, actual and forecasted results, including detailed analyses and specific explanations supporting related variances.
- Interacts with all levels and departments within the Company.
- Other duties as assigned.
What we’re looking for:
- 3 years of work experience.
- Familiarity with GAAP and accounting principles and practices.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite with expert Excel competencies, including modeling.
- An aptitude for problem solving; strong writing and verbal communication skills
- The ability to work autonomously and thrive in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
- Willingness to take initiative to understand the business
- A record of team, project and/or people leadership in a work setting
- Process ownership/improvement experience.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business
- Masters or advanced degrees are a plus
Travel:
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