Senior Financial Analyst

Industry: Accounting

Company: Overhead Door Corporation

Job Description

The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst will report directly to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis. This role will support the corporate financial planning and analysis function by providing ongoing financial analysis of consolidated business performance as well as performance at the division level.

This is a highly visible role within Overhead Door Corporation’s headquarters. The right candidate will develop, analyze and review business performance as well as be involved in a wide range of other analytical and strategic activities. This role requires highly skilled analytical and project management talent. A motivated individual with a demonstrated understanding of finance, economics and strategy is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical support for month end close process including divisional reviews, variance analysis, account reviews, etc. – multi-division/multi-national environment.
• Consolidate and report results from monthly forecasting, annual budgeting and long range strategic planning efforts.
• Analyze, interpret and explain actual results against a range of comparators to identify issues and areas of opportunity.
• Conduct analysis and develop/maintain presentations for Senior Management and the Board of Directors.
• Influence cross-functional business partners and effectively provide the finance point-of-view on complex business issues to team members and Senior Management.
• Maintain benchmarking analytics, both internal and external, which are used as gauges of business performance.
• Assist with ad-hoc reporting and other various financial related projects.
• Create, maintain and deploy financial models and analytical tools.
• Provide support as an active liaison with ODC’s Japanese leadership team.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years of progressively increasing work experience, ideally in a similar capacity.
• Manufacturing industry experience is preferred.
• Must have a strong financial acumen and be very detail oriented.
• Self-motivated, flexible, deadline-oriented and able to complete tasks with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Excellent organizational skills with multi-tasking abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to interface and work with a wide variety of individuals at all levels including experience supporting C-level executives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Explicit ability to lead and to track complex global projects, with a clear track record of owning projects/initiatives/analyses from conception through final presentation.
• In depth experience developing analytical tools, processes and templates.
• Able to frame analysis, identify insights from complex data sets and synthesize how those insights might impact business strategy.
• Professional and approachable style.
• Ability to work overtime as need.
• Advanced level Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Strong Hyperion Essbase experience is required.
• ACCESS is a plus. Oracle is a plus.

Education

• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and/or Business preferred.
• CPA a plus.