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Financial Analyst
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An exciting consumer products company in the South Bay is looking for a Financial Analyst. The company is involved in selling dozens of cosmetic brands direct to consumers. This role will have dual responsibilities: treasury functions (banking, cash forecasting, payment processing, and credit card activities) and financial analysis (reporting, forecasting, and various ad hoc analysis). There is a lot of exposure to senior executives throughout the organization and this is a great opportunity for someone to get their footing in a large organization and launch their career.
Responsibilities
- Treasury:
- Update Cash Position file daily with latest actuals to provide up to date balances.
- Manage weekly payment run to ensure proper funding is in place for all entities.
- Constantly track actuals vs. forecast to ensure most accurate go forward picture is in place.
- Maintain good communication with AP, AR and other groups to ensure accurate assumptions are being leveraged.
- Get comfort level with business to properly classify various cash expenses in order to perform proper variance analysis.
- Work with internal teams to do long term cash forecasting by business unit to project cash flow.
- Analyze and report bank and credit card processors statements. Identify anomalies, issues, or opportunities
- Provide deep analytics on credit card chargeback and disseminate reports to the business
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- Finance:
- Prepare monthly reporting of P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet (e.g. actual vs. Budget/forecast, and prior year), including the reporting of direct and indirect expenses and variance analysis.
- Analyze financial and business performance against key business metrics and document relevant financial highlights that will enable management to determine progress against budgets and strategic/business plans. This includes analyzing and researching significant variances of actual revenue and expenditures versus budget/prior year and presenting explanations for these variances.
- Work with accounting to correct recording/booking errors and problems to ensure proper recording of revenues and expenses. Accordingly, must understand the accounting cycle and the flow of financial information within the General Ledger.
- Perform complex analytics, report, draw conclusions and develop recommendations for process improvement
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Qualifications:
- BA/BS in Finance/Accounting/Economic/Statistics
- 2-4 years analytical experience, with a progressive Finance and Accounting record with some budgeting and reporting experience
- Mastery of MS Excel is a must as is strong modeling skills
- Proficient with MS Powerpoint and MS Word.
- Experience in the Consumer product industry preferred
- Experience in a subscription business preferred
- Experience with Oracle is a plus
- Ability to learn technical material and apply the knowledge to their work.
- Must have close attention to detail in reviewing work for accuracy and thoroughness
- Desire to improve processes, takes initiative and committed to developing creative solutions that generate value
- Growth mindset, demonstrated ability to learn quickly
- Able to prioritize and quickly switch from task to task and manage several projects at a time
- Sound judgment and critical thinking
- Must have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate to varied audiences, both verbally and in writing
- Must be able to work well independently but also be a team player
- Likes to work in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment