Financial Analyst
EBSCO Information Services is a leader in providing optimized research experiences and is seeking a motivated Financial Analyst to support their Go-To-Market Finance team. This role involves partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Product leaders to provide financial insights that drive revenue growth and improve business performance.
Responsibilities
- Engage as support and act as a business partner with the leaders of the business you are assigned to, maintaining a productive relationship that improves understanding of KPIs, their associated financials & P&Ls, and facilitates effective decision making
- Work closely with department heads to develop annual budgets, long-range expense plans (3yr), and monthly forecasts
- Prepare and distribute timely and insightful financial analysis to determine progress against budget and long-range plans
- Execute monthly reporting and forecast analysis that facilitates business decisions
- Actively interpret and review monthly financial results with business leaders, including variance analysis of current trends, to identify and communicate potential risks and opportunities
- Evolve the various forecasting, budgeting, and other tools to ensure that accuracy and quality are always improving
- Complete and contribute to special projects as needed, such as internal business proposals and business cases, vendor and prepaid tracking, headcount reporting, acquisition support, and other ad hoc requests
Skills
- 1-2 years of professional work experience in financial analysis, financial/strategic planning, and/or budgeting preferably within a technology and/or subscription-based revenue company
- Track record of experience in working through planning cycles
- Experience with SAP, Board, or similar planning and ERP tools
- Skilled with MS Office Suite, specifically Excel
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business
- Strong analytical & problem-solving skills with the ability to identify key trends and drivers within financial data with experience to translate that into meaningful information
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner with all levels of the organization
- Bias for action with a high degree of self-motivation to work with minimal supervision
- Team player who is comfortable being coached
- Working knowledge of accounting and finance principles, GAAP
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