Financial Analyst Business Finance
Roles & Responsibilities :
- This position will be a critical business partner and will own the P&L for one of product categories.
- This includes, among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis.
The successful candidate will be strategic, analytical and have demonstrated ability to effectively manage finances for a high growth business including:
- Partnering financial reporting, ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling. Presenting recommendations to category leadership on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
- Work closely with the business team to drive critical business goals like vendor terms improvement (margins/credit), operational costs and contribute to Free Cash flows.
- Provide controllership to the business and build processes that augments transparency and improves controls
- Facilitate financial reviews with business group and work with category leader to ensure effective finance and cost management.
- Manage financial reporting and analysis, forecasting product lines using the key input levers to the business - pricing, selection, and convenience.
- Facilitate weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews (WBR, MBR, QBR) with data analysis and follow through with business team on actionable items for improving business metrics over a period.
- Work with accounting team to drive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial book close process for the category.
Essential requirements : - The candidate should be a CA/MBA (finance) with 3 to 5 years of working experience in a relevant role and company.
- Candidate should possess strong ownership, passion for achieving results, diving deep into numbers and gather insights from the numbers.
- Candidate should possess excellent communication skills and should have demonstrated track record to influence without authority and earning trust with stakeholders, team members.