Growing, environmentally conscious, publicly traded company and manufacturer of consumer goods is seeking an FP&A Analyst at their Corporate offices in the San Fernando Valley, CA.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support to the FP&A department in terms of forecast and budget consolidation, report generation, financial analysis, and accounting process support.
- Work directly with people in various departments including the manufacturing plants and will interact will all levels of management within the company.
- Assist in projects/tasks as assigned by the Manager of FP&A, the VP of Finance, and the CFO.
- Monthly financial report preparation including variance analysis, highlight issues and work with the individual parties to identify significant variances between actual and forecast/budget results
- Participate in generating the monthly reports which includes file consolidation and commentary
- Consolidate, review and track forecasts, monthly, quarterly and annually
- Assist in the development of the Annual Budget working closely with all stakeholders
- Assist in the completion of the quarterly Board Meeting presentation decks
- Represent Finance on key cross functional initiatives working to resolve and improve upon common issues
- Responsible for providing information and ad-hoc analysis as needed
Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, or related field
- 1 - 2 years in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and modeling
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel
- Finance experience in a manufacturing environment is a plus
- Experience with ERP systems, JD Edwards E1 in particular a plus
- Experience with multidimensional forecasting systems, specifically Oracle EPBCS, a plus
- Good analytical and communication skills
- Experience with dashboard and other BI tools
- Ability to work well in a cross functional team