FP&A Finance Analyst

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CIAL Dun & Bradstreet in the New York metropolitan area is looking for an FP&A Finance Analyst to join its Finance Team across Latin America. The position will involve working with various members of the finance team to lead FP&A initiatives that continuously improve operational and financial performance for the Company. The FP&A position will require analyzing financial statements, historical and projected trends, operational and financial metrics, KPI’s, forecasts, and other factors in order to develop data-driven insights and recommendations for the broader leadership team. The individual will prepare strategic projects (forecasts, projections, cash flows, dashboards, etc.) and other management reporting initiatives as needed.

The position entails a solid understanding of accounting and financial statement analysis, with a combination of financial modeling skills and an understanding of the key growth drivers of the business.

The Company provides significant professional growth opportunities and is looking for a candidate that not only has strong finance and analytical skills but is eager to grow and learn within the organization.

The candidate must have the ability to be a self-starter, work independently, take initiative, and make recommendations based on data and analyses.

Responsibilities

Financial Statement Analysis and Strategic Planning:

• Support the finance team with various aspects of the company’s finance / accounting department, primarily across financial reporting, FP&A, and strategic planning.
• Work closely with the finance, sales teams, and operations teams in developing forecasts, as well as more complex financial models utilized for strategic planning and sensitivity analyses.
• Develop rolling forecasts and analysis on a monthly, quarterly, and year-to-date basis, with YoY metrics, variance analyses, and relevant financial ratios (working capital, capex needs, liquidity ratios, etc.) across the income statement, balance sheet and cash flows.
• Help structure, build, and maintain Excel driven financial and decision-making models to develop meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Ability to develop fully integrated financial models (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flows), including bottoms-up, top-down, and rolling forecasts. Identify value drivers for the financial models and develop detailed and well documented support and assumptions.
• Communicate effectively and concisely with other members of the finance team and various other stakeholders.
• Assist the finance team in reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing / presenting financial results and providing recommendations to senior management.
• Work closely with the finance team in the preparation and maintenance of monthly and quarterly financial reports, operational metrics, KPI’s, and related dashboards.
• Assist in enhancing and maintaining KPI reporting to track company performance and provide analysis into drivers of revenue, cost structure, and expenses, as well as risks and opportunities.

Budgets and Financial Reporting:

• Develop and prepare monthly budget variance reports and variance analysis, month end financial reporting packages and reports.
• Support the finance team with reviewing the financial statements and providing analysis around actual and YTD performance.
• Support the broader finance team in enhancing and implementing the financial, accounting, reporting, systems, processes and procedures needed to support growth and scale for the business.

Experience/Professional Skills:

• 3 years of proven experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, corporate development, corporate finance, or strategic finance.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field. Strong understanding of analysis of financial statements and accounting.
• Fluent in English and Spanish is a MUST. Portuguese a plus.
• Exceptional Excel and financial modeling skills and attention to detail. Experience developing clean, detailed Excel models that are highly automated, agile, easy to understand, and include well documented support and assumptions.
• Strong experience working with large amounts of data and utilizing VLOOKUP, HLLOOKUP, SUMIF functions in Excel. (Excel VBA, Power Query, SQL language and Power BI / SuperSet experience a plus).
• Ability to work well in an agile, dynamic, and fast-paced environment.
• Strong presentation, communication (written and oral) and analytical skills.
• Familiarity or experience with ERP systems and CRM.
• High level of work ethic, integrity, and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.
• Flexible, creative, and critical thinking skills.
• Self-starter and ability to work independently with a strong initiative to meet deadlines.
• Ability to deliver time-pressured / sensitive projects on-time and on-quality.
• The role will require the individual to work cross-functionally and with various countries across Latin America.

Benefits:

• Competitive Market Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• Work in a state-of-the-art office
• Gym, Spa and Restaurant options available
• Easy commute – public transportation and free parking. 
• Full Time Employee contract.
• Full Office, with Possibility for Hybrid.