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• Perform
  financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking.
• Keenly
  analyze financial data – and create financial models for decision support
• Reporting
  on financial performance and preparation for regular leadership reviews
• Analyze
  past results, perform variance analysis; identify trends, and make
  recommendations for improvements
• Work
  closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting
  and decision support
• Evaluate
  financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans
  and forecasts
• Guide
  cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and
  procedures
• Provide
  analysis of trends and forecasts and recommending actions for optimization
• Recommend
  actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative
  analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials
• Identifying
  and driving process improvements, including creation of standard and
  ad-hoc reports, tools and Excel dashboards
• Increases
  productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools
• Market
  research, data mining, business intelligence, and valuation comps 

• Grow financial performance through
  analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends.
• Create recommendations to be presented to
  management and executives
• Develop financial models to support
  valuation, planning, and forecasting
• Aid in the capital budgeting and
  expenditure planning processes
• Reconcile existing transactions through
  cross-referencing of incoming and outgoing data
• Conduct comparables analysis and market
  research to support internal financial analysis
• Responsible for maintaining up-to-date
  technical knowledge on financial instruments, market conditions and trends

• The applicant must hold a BA, BS or B.Com
  degree required (Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics). MBAs
  are preferred
• Strong analytical and data gathering
  skills
• Good business acumen
• Three years of business finance or other
  relevant experience
• Three to five years of business finance or
  other relevant experience
• Finance, Accounting, Economics or
  Statistics are preferred fields
• Proven work experience in a
  quantitatively-heavy role
• CFA, CMA, CPA or like designations
  preferred
• High proficiency with financial modeling
  and techniques
• Strong fluency with Excel formulas and
  functions
• Strong
  financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models
• Proficiency
  with Microsoft Excel is required; familiarity with data query/data
  management tools extremely helpful (Access, SQL, Business Objects)
• Strong quantitative and analytical
  competency
• Self-starter with excellent interpersonal
  communication and problem-solving skills
• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• Personality and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with the ability to
  streamline functions and passion to learn and grow
• Strong interpersonal skills, including
  written and oral communication skills
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and ability
  to work independently
• Experience working with and presenting to
  senior executives
• Must possess excellent communication and
  presentation skills, and be comfortable interacting with executive-level
  management
• Strong financial modeling experience

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