Analyst - Financial

As a Financial Analyst, you will prepare, coordinate, and document forward-looking financial projects, including forecasts and reports, while providing analytical support to drive strategic decision-making. You will also manage the calculation and documentation of variable pay programs, such as sales commissions, by extracting and organizing data from various systems. This role combines financial analysis and compensation processing to ensure accurate reporting and impactful business insights.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares financial forecasts, analyses, and reports for assigned business unit management team.
• Supports development of unit’s annual budget, tracks and analyzes variances throughout the year.
• Gather and prepare data from different sources to facilitate a basic variable pay program for assigned BU.
• Monitors progress toward objectives.
• Provides analyses and recommendations based on financial data and other pertinent information.
• Respond to basic questions from Finance, sales leaders or managers regarding data used to calculate commissions and adjust information if it is determined to be incorrect, to ensure that sale compensation is accurate and track results.
• Interact with sales managers and sales employees to help them understand the reports they are receiving and regarding basic transactions and variable pay programs.
• Identifies issues and suggests courses of action, makes recommendations for improving operations, and resource allocation.
• Works closely with other corporate and business unit resources to improve standardization and implements best practices.
• Supports and directs implementation of operational improvements.
• Serves as corporate finance’s point of contact for assigned business unit(s).
• Ensures compliance with policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ Degree required
• 2 years of financial analysis experience
• GAAP, financial statements, internal controls, and SOX requirements
• Strong overall business skills and common-sense approach to issues
• Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to translate complex analytical data into easily understandable format
• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Large information and accounting systems
• Report writing experience is preferred

Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

Los Angeles Unincorporated County Candidates Only : Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

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