Senior Principal Corporate Finance Strategic Initiatives Analyst

Senior Principal Corporate Finance Strategic Initiatives Analyst

Requirements

• 7-10 years of relevant professional experience in FP&A, strategy, and/or consulting.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business or related field.
• Exceptional quantitative and financial modeling with high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, G-Suite applications; Adaptive Insights and NetSuite experience a plus.
• Ability to work in Excel with unstructured data sets to glean insights.
• Excellent verbal and written communications – clear and concise with the ability to present in formal and informal settings to influence teams, as well as Executive partners.
• Strategic / analytical approach with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop analytical frameworks.
• Demonstrated success working closely with Senior Leadership, and experience influencing across the organization.
• Self-starter who is self-directed, highly motivated, intellectually curious and proactive.

Responsibilities

• Create and rigorously assess business cases and stress test against market and customer needs. Outline financial returns to aid in capital allocation decisions.
• Act as an internal ‘financial consultant’ by assisting company leaders to assess their capital allocations, build robust analytics and provide influencing recommendations.
• Develop and maintain complex financial models to analyze current and future financial performance, supporting key business decisions and investment strategies.
• Create and maintain a robust capital allocation framework, reporting, and tracking.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance across products, identifying key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide financial thought partnership to leadership and business partners, and work on projects that identify and harness growth and cost opportunities.
• Synthesize and present findings to Senior Leadership and organizational team members, as necessary.
• Support forecasting, annual budgeting, and 3-year long term strategy and financial plans to deliver organic growth, margin, and cash in line with business expectations.
• Prepare detailed ad hoc analysis in preparation for financial reviews.
• Ability to manage multiple high priorities and high visibility deliverables.
• Excellent Executive presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while demonstrating technical and cross functional flexibility to adapt to varying work dynamics dependent upon project needs.
• Lead internal process scope, launch & execution of internal business cases and robust capital allocation across the organization.
• Mentor junior team members to support business case creation, capital allocation analysis, and analytical framework development.
• Promote an open, collaborative environment built on trust to foster positive teamwork.
• Empower and lead teams of cross-functional resources in a matrixed organization with contending priorities, with or without direct authority or reporting relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience rolling out or supporting capital allocations across an organization strongly preferred.
• Experience working for a large public company strongly preferred; consulting or banking background is a plus.