What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at MDI?
Overview
The Financial Analyst will contribute to the company's success through providing financial and analytic partnership and deliverables to their assigned operational areas. The Financial Analyst will also assist other team members on any required deliverables enabling team success
The Financial Analyst will work with their business partners to ensure optimal short-term and long-term decision making. He/ She will provide assistance “planning the work” and then “working the plan” most efficiently and effectively. Financial data is at the core, but the FP&A team will be responsible for providing a balanced view of the business including operational metrics and activity drivers.
To be successful in this role, this individual must have a desire and education required to provide financial and analytical deliverables and guidance to partners. He/ She will attentively listen to his/ her partner's business needs and either directly deliver or work with Manager to successfully meet their expectations. This person should also have good presentation skills, experience working with large amounts of data (transactional, point of sale and/ or customer data preferrable) and ability to build reports (standardized, interactive self-service and/ or adhoc).
Responsibilities
The Financial Analyst, will partner with an assigned operational area to deliver or help to deliver the below critical business deliverables (as required): "Financial Analysis-" • Build ROI/ business models (ST & LT) for major capital expenditures, projects, ventures, promotions • Analyze profitability for key areas of assigned operational area • Provide proactive variance analyses • Produce proformas and post reviews/ measurement for key initiatives
"Business Analytics -" • Develop & deliver ad-hoc decision support (financial data in addition to operational data) • Set up and measure test and learns, as appropriate for assigned operational area • Create, provide and partner on: ‒ descriptive analytics & exploratory data analytics – “What” ‒ diagnostic analytics – “Why” ‒ predictive analytics – “What if” ‒ prescriptive analytics – “Next best action”
Financial Operating Planning - • Produce assigned deliverables for the annual financial operating plan (as required for assigned operational area) with driver based targets; guide partner through process and ensure understanding and alignment on all budget submissions • Deliver single and “rest of year” financial forecasting Managing & Reporting Business Performance - • Deliver (thru collaboration with partner) on periodic business reviews • Prepare Executive (i.e. Leadership, Board Meeting) presentations, schedules & required support (including KPIs and Scorecards) • Do competitive benchmarking, macro-environment and market share/ growth analyses; as required for assigned operational area
Strategic Planning - • Working with assigned operational area, provide the financial view for the longer term (3-5 year) planning process • Model financial outcomes of the strategies • Identify & track KPIs/ balanced scorecards which link to the strategies
Data & Systems - • Provide data sourcing, wrangling, querying & modeling for discovery analytics • Develop standardized, self service performance reporting • Build requirements & validate production ready metrics and reports
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Analytics or similar quantitative field of study; Master's Degree preferred. • Strong desire to learn analytics (financial & operational) with some prior experience (either professional or academic). • Experience working in Microsoft tools (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint); knowledge of other business intelligence software (i.e. Cognos, Microstrategy) preferred. • Knowledge of Financial/ GL Systems (i.e. Fusion, Hyperion), Database querying tools, Visualization tools and/ or Statistical tools preferred.
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