Sr. Financial Analyst

Candidates looking for Senior Financial Analyst opportunities might be interested in this long-term contract / contract position. This Senior Financial Analyst consultant role will our client's primary point of contact for all financial issues, including project spending, planning, forecasting and annual budgeting. Consider this Senior Financial Analyst consultant role if you want to perform analysis of the operating results and financial performance of core business segments supporting public reporting requirements, and provide decision-making support for future company investments. This Senior Financial Analyst will be situated in Greenwood Village, Colorado.

Your responsibilities in this role

- Capable of communicating updates to senior management, analyzing financial results, and distilling/synthesizing key issues in the course of advancing existing management reporting

- Implement financial analysis as part of business performance optimization

- Make business, operational, and financial processes to be shared, understood, and repeated by relevant teams

- Offer assistance for ad-hoc analysis and presentation requests as necessary

- Cultivate positive relationships with key business partners and Finance/Accounting leadership

- Coordinate with Functional leads to draft management reporting, accounting and compliance advisement, and guarantee alignment of operational initiatives

- Evaluate financial results, summarize key trends, assess current and future business risks, and communicate critical updates all in the course of preparing monthly and quarterly reporting to senior leadership

- Influence the accuracy and discretion of tracked financial results with Operations and Accounting in order to drive improved management reporting- Able to think critically and operate effectively with management

- Necessary education includes a BA/BS degree in Finance, Business, or a related field

- CPA/MBA preferred

- Ability to simplify complex problems and build solutions

- Skilled in working cross functionally across teams and gaining favor of key decision makers

- Comprehensive knowledge of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)

- Anaplan experience

- Practical knowledge of variance analysis

- General familiarity with Cost Variance

- Cash Flow Forecasts experience preferred

- Oracle Fusion Financials experience

- Adeptness in Microsoft SQL

- Experience with Microsoft Excel

- Variance Explanations experience highly preferred

- Demonstrated knowledge of Power BI

- Proven knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint

- Prior experience with process reengineering and optimization

- Expert Microsoft Excel skills required

- Excellent written, verbal and social communication skills

- Efficient in office systems, reporting software, databases and other BI tools recommended