What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Financial Analyst position at Intuit?
Overview
At Intuit, our mission is to power prosperity around the world by attracting top talent, building strong partnerships, and making a positive impact through our corporate citizenship. Our Global Business Solutions Group (GBSG) is a key driver of this mission, serving over 7 million customers with our QuickBooks products and services.
The Intuit Customer Success (ICS) ecosystem takes a platform approach to connect people to expertise and serve customers along a spectrum of preference. We enable and drive significant growth for Intuit through customer & expert experiences across all Intuit products and services, on a global scale. As a key finance partner for the Quickbooks Live (QBL) business, this individual will be responsible for driving strategic conversations that enable growth, expense forecasting, and providing operational leadership.
We work in a highly collaborative environment, providing financial partnership through planning, insights, and analysis across all functions while working closely with business leaders and other finance and accounting team members. This person should be a team player with an owner’s mindset, eager to learn and grow in a fast-paced and high-expectations environment with significant executive exposure.
What you'll bring
Core Responsibilities
You are a financial analyst with strong analytical and modeling skills. You also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business, you need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate has worked in the high-tech industry and enjoys operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Core responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
At Intuit, our mission is to power prosperity around the world by attracting top talent, building strong partnerships, and making a positive impact through our corporate citizenship. Our Global Business Solutions Group (GBSG) is a key driver of this mission, serving over 7 million customers with our QuickBooks products and services.
The Intuit Customer Success (ICS) ecosystem takes a platform approach to connect people to expertise and serve customers along a spectrum of preference. We enable and drive significant growth for Intuit through customer & expert experiences across all Intuit products and services, on a global scale. As a key finance partner for the Quickbooks Live (QBL) business, this individual will be responsible for driving strategic conversations that enable growth, expense forecasting, and providing operational leadership.
We work in a highly collaborative environment, providing financial partnership through planning, insights, and analysis across all functions while working closely with business leaders and other finance and accounting team members. This person should be a team player with an owner’s mindset, eager to learn and grow in a fast-paced and high-expectations environment with significant executive exposure.
What you'll bring
- 8-10 years of experience within FP&A function or equivalent tenure from related positions in corporate finance, accounting or investment banking
- Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models. Tableau and Hyperion Essbase experience preferred.
- Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.
- Attention to details and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to the executive leadership team.
- Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions and business outcomes
- Ability to lead teams to deliver exceptional results and drive business growth
- Grace under pressure with a good sense of humor and dose of humility
- Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners with confidence, conviction, and credibility
- BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics preferred or equivalent work experience
Core Responsibilities
You are a financial analyst with strong analytical and modeling skills. You also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business, you need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate has worked in the high-tech industry and enjoys operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Core responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Strategic planning: Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team to develop and refine our 1- and 3-year strategic plans, proactively highlighting risks and opportunities related to business growth and drive optimal investment decisions through data-driven insights and business modeling expertise.
- Operational Excellence: Partner with, Marketing, Analytics and Finance teams to develop and monitor key performance indicators to drive insights and decision making in order to achieve our strategic and financial goals
- Modeling: Create financial models to analyze complex business scenarios that drive and inform our go-to-market strategy (e.g. promotion, pricing, new sales channel opportunities, product portfolio)
- Financial reporting: Prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, variance explanation, etc) to enable transparency into the business’s performance and drivers. Liaise with the Accounting team and cross-functional business partners to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities.
- Process improvement: Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement by streamlining, standardizing and automating processes and reporting requirements
