Financial Analyst – II – India &#82...

<div> <strong>JOB TITLE:</strong> <strong> Financial Analyst II</strong></div>
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<div> <strong>JOB LOCATION: India (Remote)</strong></div>
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<div> <strong>FUNCTION: Finance</strong> </div>
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<div> <strong>JOB DESCRIPTION:</strong></p>
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<li>The Rackspace Corporate Finance Team has a pivotal role in supporting Corporate Functions business partners in understanding their expense structure, helping to manage expense increases/decreases, and analyzing forecast to actual variances. With a wide scope of accountability/ownership, you will perform analysis of the relevant financial metrics and work closely with the wider business to understand trends as well as internal needs. You will take a proactive approach, working with Directors and VP’s through the development process of each budget and makes recommendations.</li>
<li>Within this team, a Financial Analyst will primarily support Corporate Functions such as HR, IT, or Legal.

You will be responsible for developing department’s annual budgeting process: plans, develops, prepares, inputs, and maintains company’s budgets and monthly forecast. </li>
<li>Daily tasks include analyzing and evaluating the department’s operating results and financial position to summarize, report, and influence key financial decisions. In addition, develop/review forecasts for accurate and timely cash flow projections, expense projections, headcount, department performance, and direct expenses. </li>
<li>We are looking for someone who can work under pressure, maintain high standards of deliverables and attention to detail, who thinks in a structured way and is highly analytical. A successful candidate should be able to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks, be curious about technology, willing to learn and should have a very strong understanding of financial concepts. </li>
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<div> <strong>JOB REQUIREMENTS:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Key Accountabilities</strong></li>
<li>Provide guidance to corporate organizations with regards to expense budgets and forecasts </li>
<li>Owning full life cycle of annual budget to monthly forecast to actual results with variance analysis and reporting throughout</li>
<li>Help drive expense reduction efforts through quality information management and advice</li>
<li>Constantly improve processes & reporting to meet the needs of senior business partners</li>
<li><strong>Key Performance Indicators</strong> </li>
<li><strong></strong> Maintain and improve forecast to actual reporting</li>
<li>Ensure that business leaders are taking healthy financial decisions and that the company’s overall financial targets are achieved</li>
<li>Evaluate profitability and margins for the organization through objective and data-driven analysis</li>
<li>Improve tools enhancing the understanding of financial performance by the business</li>
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<div> <strong>MAIN CONTACTS (external/internal):</strong></p>
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<li>Corporate Functions business partners such as the head of HR, IT, or Legal</li>
<li>Accounting, wider Finance team members</li>
<li>Executive Leadership</li>
<li>Third Party Vendors</li>
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<div> <strong>PERSON SPECIFICATION:</strong> </p>
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<li>Bachelors in Business Administration/Finance/Economics</li>
<li>Masters degree or 1-2 years of relevant working experience highly desirable </li>
<li>Technical knowledge of budgeting, financial statements, cash management, and financial analysis processes</li>
<li>Self-starter that takes ownership of issues and drives them toward a conclusion</li>
<li>Able to succeed in a fast, high-growth and fairly unstructured work environment</li>
<li>Ability to dig into details as well as analyze data from a high level view</li>
<li>Advanced Excel skills</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal/networking skills.</li>
<li>Team player with an open and internal customer focused approach</li>
<li>Works under minimal supervision.

Provides updates of work performed as needed.</li>
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