Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Complete complex financial modeling development, improvement, and maintenance
- Execute accrual and reclassification processes, validate expense inputs and supporting documentation, and reconcile records to support an accurate and timely financial close.
- Support headcount forecasting and position management by maintaining planning inputs, tracking hiring, attrition and internal movements, and reconciling workforce data with finance partners.
- Analyze headcount and expense variances, identify discrepancies, and support forecast updates and financial planning consolidations.
- Process finance master data requests in Oracle EDM through standardized intake, completeness and accuracy checks, approved execution, verification, and confirmation to the requester; maintain a record of every change.
- Support validation and downstream-impact assessment for new departments, department name changes, and department hierarchy changes.
- Support maintenance of additional finance master data within assigned permissions, including product codes, legal entities, GL accounts, source members, etc.
- Audit and reconcile financial models, accrual records, headcount inputs and master data to identify and resolve accuracy issues.
- Partner with Strategic Finance, Accounting and system stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies and assess the impact of master data changes on planning and reporting.
- Establish and document repeatable processes, validation checks and controls for accruals, headcount forecasting and EDM execution.
- Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting on financial results, headcount forecasts and master data request status.
- Provide strategic and ad hoc analysis to support key business decisions and evolving priorities
- Ensure reporting systems and source data are accurate and reconciled, with consistent cost center, department and ownership mappings.
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in finance, accounting, or related field 4+ years of financial analysis experience
- Advanced Excel modeling skills
- Hands-on experience with accruals, headcount forecasting or finance master data management, including data validation and reconciliation.
- Experience working with financial planning, accounting or enterprise master data systems.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM), including:
- Master data request validation, attribute maintenance and approved change execution.
- Cost center and department structures, ownership attributes and hierarchy mappings.
- Downstream-impact assessment, change verification and traceable change records.
- Finance dimensions and mappings supporting FP&A, budgeting and reporting.
- Experience supporting headcount forecasting, position management and workforce data reconciliation.
- Familiarity with Oracle EPM / EBS, Workday and related financial planning or accounting systems.
- Experience maintaining finance master data, resolving mapping discrepancies and supporting hierarchy changes.
- Strong understanding of accruals, expense timing, reclassifications and financial close processes.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience documenting finance processes, validation controls and master data change procedures; understanding of segregation of duties.
- Suggested Skills:
- Accruals & Financial Close
- Headcount Forecasting & Position Management
- Master Data Management / Oracle EDMStakeholder Management
- Data Reconciliation, Governance & Controls