What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Financial Analyst position at RS Americas?
About RS Group
Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses. We provide global access to an unrivalled range of over 750,000 stocked industrial products. Each day our team of experts deliver solutions to resolve our customer’s challenges across design, procurement, inventory and maintenance. We consistently strive to deliver the best possible service to all of our customers and challenge ourselves to provide a seamless procurement experience.
We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.
Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.
About The Role
Role Purpose
The primary function of the position is to support the Sr. Director of commercial finance with financial analysis and business partnering with key areas of the business. This includes building reports along with performing analysis of key financial data, operational data, and Key Performance Indicators to assist senior management in making informed decisions.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the value-add finance can bring beyond the numbers. You will investigate innovative ways to improve our insight capabilities as well as business partner across functions to assess trends and opportunities for growth.
Key Responsibilities
RS Americas is an equal opportunity employer and maintains policies and practices that are designed to prevent and prohibit unlawful discrimination against any qualified employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military/veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other unlawful classification to the extent protected by law. This policy of non-discrimination applies to all employment practices, including hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, training and termination. Employees who engage in unlawful discrimination will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses. We provide global access to an unrivalled range of over 750,000 stocked industrial products. Each day our team of experts deliver solutions to resolve our customer’s challenges across design, procurement, inventory and maintenance. We consistently strive to deliver the best possible service to all of our customers and challenge ourselves to provide a seamless procurement experience.
We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.
Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.
About The Role
Role Purpose
The primary function of the position is to support the Sr. Director of commercial finance with financial analysis and business partnering with key areas of the business. This includes building reports along with performing analysis of key financial data, operational data, and Key Performance Indicators to assist senior management in making informed decisions.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the value-add finance can bring beyond the numbers. You will investigate innovative ways to improve our insight capabilities as well as business partner across functions to assess trends and opportunities for growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Business partners with commercial functions providing business insight into critical decisions.
- Prepare monthly financial reports, analyze key trends and variances, and highlight improvement opportunities.
- Support budgeting and rolling forecasting processes, ensuring accurate data and analysis.
- Highly analytical and can transition between being strategic and completing hands on tasks.
- Support monthly and quarterly financial performance analysis across P&L, working capital and cash flow.
- Develop and own dashboard(s) and reports to spot trends and highlight areas of opportunity.
- Support month-end close with updating reports and researching variances between actual and forecasted balances.
- Be support for the wider commercial finance team on ad hoc projects.
- Strong analytical skills
- Proactive
- Clear thinking/problem solving
- Ability to work, collaborate and communicate across all levels of experience
- Familiar with standard accounting and financial reporting concepts, practices, and procedures
- Ability to work under deadline pressure and initiative to see projects/assignments through
- Self-starter with the ability to transition between priorities effectively
- Highly proficient in Excel, including advanced formulas and functions
- Experience with dashboard tools such as Power BI
- SAP and OneStream experience is a plus
- Bachelor's degree with a major in Finance or Accounting
- 4 years’ experience in Finance or Accounting
- Analytical and quantitative abilities with expertise in financial modeling and data analysis
RS Americas is an equal opportunity employer and maintains policies and practices that are designed to prevent and prohibit unlawful discrimination against any qualified employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military/veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other unlawful classification to the extent protected by law. This policy of non-discrimination applies to all employment practices, including hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, training and termination. Employees who engage in unlawful discrimination will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.