What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Financial Analyst position at Taylor Root?
Summary
The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst will be responsible for developing and preparing various analysis of firm financial results as well as assisting with the budget process and subsequent reporting of actuals vs budget.
This is a hybrid role. Three days in an NYC office.
This is a Senior Analyst opportunity for someone experience with Law Firm Financial Planning & Analysis.
Responsibilities
- Assist and support key strategic initiatives in the Firm with financial modeling and data mining analysis
- Prepare impactful visual presentations of complex data to facilitate decision making
- Develop new approaches to integrate information from multiple sources to improve the ability of decision makers to have access to critical business intelligence
- Help identify and analyze new ways to understand underlying Firm profitability, including development of business models for practice areas of the Firm
- Weekly, monthly and annual preparation of standard management reports as well as any ad-hoc analytical requests from management
- Assist in managing the annual budget and reforecast process together with preparing related summary analyses and presentation which entails working with different Branch Office / Departments
- Perform monthly detailed expense analyses between actuals vs budgets of departments, offices and projects within the Firm including explanation for the variances
- Work and communicate with Branch Office / Department Heads as a Finance liaison to improve analysis of financial information
- Manage project improvement initiatives involving coordination of efforts between multiple departments
- Provide system support related to the extracting and loading of data across aggregate storage system
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree
- 6 years in Law Firm Financial Analysis
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Oracle Hyperion Essbase
- Knowledge of SQL and legal / professional services database structure
- Knowledge of various information technology / accounting systems (experience with Elite 3E is a plus)
- Comprehensive analytical and problem-solving skills including profitability, cost accounting and financial modeling experience
- Strong and proven project management skills, written and oral communication skills, interpersonal skills, business writing
- Proactive and results oriented with excellent organizational skills
- Ability to deal with all levels of firm personnel and client contacts
- Ability to work in a team environment and independently
Salary : $90,000 - $160,000
