One of our favorite Baton Rouge clients has a current Senior Financial Analyst position open and is ready to interview immediately! They work from home 2 days a week, have an incredible team culture, and are known as one of the best places to work in the city. This is a critical role reporting directly to the CFO where you conduct the development of forecast processes to ensure resources are leveraged with maximum effectiveness, and build long-range operating plans to support business initiatives.. As a team you will put into effect and cultivate data-driven planning processes and improve upon monthly and quarterly reporting. Make your mark as a Senior Financial Analyst in a career-building role and gain experience working directly with senior leadership of the company and contribute your strategic input. The ideal candidate will have prior knowledge of annual planning, quarterly forecasts and monthly outlooks, which will be imperative to the coordination of various planning cycles. In this role, you will also provide strategic analyses and recommendations. You will ensure variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting the outlook models to reflect operational adjustments. This permanent employment opportunity is based in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area.What you get to do every day:- Decipher and resolve internal and external drivers impacting performance and trending- Sanction effective Business Intelligence (BI) to provide forward-looking insight and decision support- Come together with senior executives on strategic deep dives by developing financial models and insights on topics such as: Retention forecasts, Campaign Planning & Tracking, return on investment of strategic investments, event tracking and execution, strategic resource allocation and prioritization- Accumulate and regulate forecasting reports- Monitor weekly, quarterly and annual Area/Segment-level Bookings and P& L forecasting - Submit monthly reporting to business partners on financial results and actions required- Keep an eye on monthly and quarterly performance through comparison of actuals versus expectations and enable business partners to handle their resources- Aid Accounting on the monthly and quarterly financial close process- Determine performance to date and assess potential risks and opportunities- The Senior Financial Analyst collaborates closely with cross functional partners in Accounting and Operations to execute against plansWe love this clients and have many many placements with them over the last 10 years and now many of our candidates are leaders in the company! For immediate confidential consideration please apply directly or call Carrie Lewis at 504-383-0612. Thank you for your interest in Robert Half!