Job Description

Robert Half is currently trying to staff a critical need for a Senior Financial Analyst for one of their clients in the the White Plains, New York area. This role will allow you to directly be involved in the coordination of various planning cycles (annual planning, quarterly forecasts and monthly outlooks), while providing strategic analyses and recommendations. You will manage variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting the outlook models to reflect operational adjustments. Administer the long-range operating plans to support business initiatives, drive world class strategic and financial planning methods, and develop rolling forecast processes to ensure resources are leveraged with maximum effectiveness, as the Senior Financial Analyst. The Senior Financial Analyst will be key in operationilizing and cultivating data-driven planning processes and improving upon monthly and quarterly reporting. Make a difference as a Senior Financial Analyst in a pivotal role, which gives you the opportunity to directly work with senior leadership of the company and contribute a strategic input. Don\'t wait - apply today! A company in the Agriculture field has an opening for a permanent opportunity.

Your responsibilities in this role

- Overview performance to date and assess potential risks and opportunities

- Cooperate closely with cross functional partners in Accounting and Operations to execute against plans

- Explain monthly reporting to business partners on financial results and actions required

- Support Accounting on the monthly and quarterly financial close process

- Keep an eye on monthly and quarterly performance through comparison of actuals versus expectations and enable business partners to handle their resources

- Accumulate and regulate forecasting reports

- Approve effective Business Intelligence (BI) to provide forward-looking insight and decision support

- Get together with senior executives on strategic deep dives by developing financial models and insights on topics such as: Retention forecasts, Campaign Planning & Tracking, return on investment of strategic investments, event tracking and execution, strategic resource allocation and prioritization

- Interpret and point out internal and external drivers impacting performance and trending

- Lead weekly, quarterly and annual Area/Segment-level Bookings and P& L forecasting

Requirements

- Professionally trained in financial reporting tools

- Top-notch presentation skills

- 3+ years\' experience with advanced financial analysis, planning and budget controls required

- Business Intelligence (BI) experience desired

- Skillfulness in simplifying complex problems and building solutions

- Bachelor\'s Degree in Finance, MBA preferred

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