Global RME Finance is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its Central Finance team. This opportunity is ideal for a finance professional who enjoys optimizing operational excellence through a strategic lens to mitigate future risk. RME Senior Financial Analysts share ownership over all things cost when it comes to providing network FP&A support (MEC, Controllership and Operational Planning Cycles) and strategic cost out validation and tracking for the Global RME Central team.
The ability to learn and be curious while working through ambiguity in order to think big while inventing and simplifying for process improvement is mission critical. The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical, and have the demonstrated ability to effectively manage the finances of a large organization.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling.
Work cross-functionally with business partners to determine opportunities for cost reduction.
Contribute to business decisions by providing insightful analysis and methodical consideration for the end-to-end impact to systems, financial controls and ongoing support requirements.
Identify opportunities and drive automation in existing manual process
Facilitate financial review meetings with cross functional teams and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management.
Manage the annual financial planning & analysis and quarterly budgeting exercise accurately, completely and in a timely basis
Develop ad hoc business analysis and present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
Facilitate the Business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items.
Leveraging internal systems to deep dive financial and productivity results to drive action (QuickSight, PowerBI, SQL, PAX, Cognos, CAMP)
A day in the life
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following abilities: they influence business owners, effectively lead meetings with senior leaders, support thoughtful decision-making through data, and adapt to a rapidly-evolving environment. This individual will also play a key role in decision making and developing financial insights as part of monthly and quarterly business reviews. This individual is able to drive network scale initiatives, enforce standard work, review and action purchase requests, develop and lead cost business reviews, and provide ad-hoc analysis on large or ambiguous tasks.
About the team
The team supports the Global RME Central Team, along with NA, EU and ROW field RME across NACF, ATS and GDS.- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a Bachelor's degree and experience in quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance)
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- Experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis
- Experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
- Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience as a lean sensei, or experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer- MBA, or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
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