Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

$75-100k/year

Overland Park, KS (Hybrid)

Job Summary: As a Financial Analyst you play a key role in accelerating organizational success by collecting business data, analyzing information, ensuring accurate reporting, and developing improvement and enhancement solutions.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Variable Compensation Calculations
2. Recurring Financial Metric Reporting
3. Sales Forecasting and Reconciliation
4. Ad-Hoc Reporting

You successfully fulfill the following essential duties and responsibilities:

You will use your COLLABORATIVE SKILLS to:

• Work directly with all levels of the organization to identify problems, understand complex business concepts, analyze opportunities, develop, recommend, and implement business solutions.
• Administer variable compensation plan, create, send, perform ongoing maintenance, check for accuracy, and process documentation.
• Promote team values, demonstrate positive team behavior, and contribute towards building and maintaining an elevated level of morale.
• Research and implement continued automation of compensation and other recurring reporting, adding additional tools to increase efficiency and enhance visibility, as necessary.
• Support the company by completing other duties as assigned.

You will use your TECHNICAL SKILLS to:

• Administer financial reports for internal and external use by collecting, organizing, formatting, and presenting information in a manner understood by end users.
• Administer and maintain compensation plans and files.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting in collaboration with accounting, market leaders, department leaders, and senior leadership.
• Maintain operational and KPI analysis reports and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Develop templates for annual operating and capital budgets in partnership with the Senior Financial Analyst and company leadership; including reviewing and advising on strategies to increase efficiency.
• Maintain financial forecasting models to provide insight to future company performance.
• Ensure financial data integrity in alignment with Controller and Senior Financial Analyst.
• Develop and maintain standard costing systems and maintain pricing/cost models.
• Help drive the implementation of technology and process solutions from concept to completion including improvements to existing systems.
• Assist in design and maintenance of data systems and databases.
• Identify trends and developments in competitive environments and presents findings.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and procedures.
• Perform ad-hoc data analysis, forecasting, reporting, and special projects.

As a successful employee, you will demonstrate the following professional skills as you carry out your position:

• Strategic Thinking - Develop strategies to achieve organizational goals, identify opportunities, and adapt strategy to changing conditions.
• Oral Communications - Speak clearly and persuasively in positive and negative situations; respond well to questions; demonstrate group presentation skills and participate in meetings.
• Written Communications - Write clearly and informatively, edit work for spelling and grammar; present numerical and statistical data effectively and read and interpret written information.
• Presentation - Deliver business presentations to internal customers.
• Ethics - Inspire the trust of others; work with integrity and ethically; uphold company values.
• Organizational Support - Follow company policies and procedures and complete other duties as assigned.
• Customer Service - Communicate with customers, employees and various business contacts in a prompt, professional and courteous manner.
• Judgment - Include appropriate people in decision-making process.
• Interpersonal Skills - Maintain confidentiality; keep emotions under control; listen well; work with and communicate with all levels of management throughout the organization.
• Planning and organization - Prioritize, organize, and manage multiple priorities and meet scheduled deadlines while handling multiple tasks; use time efficiently; plan for additional resources; set goals and objectives.
• Professionalism - Approach others in a tactful manner; react well under pressure; treat others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accept responsibility for own actions; keep commitments.
• Adaptability - Adapt to changes in the work environment; manage competing demands; deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events. Work effectively in both independent and team settings.
• Detail & Task Oriented - Manage and follow through on multiple tasks, items, and communications in a timely manner. Perform work with an exceptional attention to detail.

You will meet the following educational, licensing, certification, and work experience requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Finance or related Business discipline required.
• 2-5 years of progressive experience as business, financial or Financial Analyst preferred.
• Data base structure experience.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Power BI, Vena, ConnectWise, and Sage Intact a plus.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within IT services and telecommunications industries a strong plus.