What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at Thayer Power & Communication?
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Job Summary:
The Financial Analyst is responsible for providing timely, relevant, and accurate financial and operational performance reports and analysis to all operating groups as needed. The Financial Analyst directly supports the CFO, other executives, as well as peers and management within Finance and other assigned functional departments. The Financial Analyst performs business, financial, and operational analysis to impact top-line and bottom-line results and to support Senior Management decision making. The Financial Analyst updates monthly reports, tracks performance against projections, works with Department Managers to develop budgets, investigates data inconsistencies, and assist in the preparation, analysis, and presentation of the monthly financial and operational reports.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Job Summary:
The Financial Analyst is responsible for providing timely, relevant, and accurate financial and operational performance reports and analysis to all operating groups as needed. The Financial Analyst directly supports the CFO, other executives, as well as peers and management within Finance and other assigned functional departments. The Financial Analyst performs business, financial, and operational analysis to impact top-line and bottom-line results and to support Senior Management decision making. The Financial Analyst updates monthly reports, tracks performance against projections, works with Department Managers to develop budgets, investigates data inconsistencies, and assist in the preparation, analysis, and presentation of the monthly financial and operational reports.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Coordinates the completion of Company reporting including analysis and interpretation of data trends and changes in business drivers
- Identifies, assesses, and communicates issues affecting profitability
- Acts as key influencer on initiatives that improve profitability
- Provides advisory support to assigned departments on matters pertaining to budget, accounting, and related financial issues and procedures
- Analyzes and interprets financial and statistical information submitted for trends, checking for reasonableness and accuracy
- Reports findings and recommends course of action
- Develops and implements timely enhancements to accurately and efficiently model noted changes
- Leads, develops, and documents complex financial analysis projects
- Prepares fact-based presentations that articulates financial terms in lay concepts
- Provides support to executive strategic initiatives
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field
- 4-6 years of experience
- Excellent verbal/written communication and strong task organization skills
- Proven track record of increased responsibility and/or promotion throughout career
- Ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment
- Exhibited leadership skills and strong motivation for career advancement
- Capable of thinking analytically and creatively, Strong initiative, confidence, and drive to achieve results without explicit direction or detailed instructions
- Possesses ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks and project
- Excellent attention to detail, Works with others to learn continuously, solve unexpected problems, breaks bottlenecks and challenges the status quo
- Continuous improvement orientation
- Proficient with EXCEL, Access, Word, PowerPoint
