Insticator - Senior Financial Analyst

Job Overview

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will serve as a partner to all business leaders. The Senior Financial Analyst is essential to Insticator's strategic planning, budgeting, business analytics and reporting outcomes processes. This role requires hyper-intellectual curiosity, expertise with reporting tools, knowledge of business planning and processes, familiarity with financial statements and metrics measurement, effective presentation skills and the ability to work with a high degree of uncertainty.

Challenges and Opportunities for the position

Senior Financial Analyst faces challenges in utilizing both quantitative and qualitative analysis of all operational aspects of a company in order to evaluate the company's progress toward achieving its goals and to map out future goals and plans. The analyst shall consider economic and business trends, review past company performance, and attempt to anticipate obstacles and potential problems, all with an eye toward forecasting a company's future financial results. In addition to the technical challenges involved in aggregating and interpreting this complex data, one of the other challenges they face is the fast pace of the industry.

Responsibilities and Duties.

- Evaluating whether the company's assets and investments are the best use of the company's excess working capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways, the company might utilize its cash flow.

- Gauging the company's overall financial health

- Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data to ensure accuracy of financial reporting

- Develop, update, and refine management reports and tools to support the business and contribute to profitable growth

- Assist in completion of forecasts/business plans and provide required information to corporate departments and business unit partners

- Examining and evaluating the cost-efficiency of each department of the company, in light of what percentage of the company's financial resources each department consumes

- Working with individual departments to prepare budgets and consolidate them into one overall corporate budget

- Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making

Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the company's future operations

- Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward

- Considering opportunities for the company to expand or grow. Mapping out growth plans, including capital expenditures and investments. Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts.

- Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications.

Professional competencies

- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA preferred.

- 5+ years experience in the field of Accounting, or Finance

- Strong leadership skills required. Experience in multi-unit IT/advertising concepts preferred.

- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint. Spreadsheet skill set to include advanced functions such as graphics/charts and pivot tables.

- Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized.

- Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret documents. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires intermediate analytical and quantitative skills.

- Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity