
Financial Planning and Analysis, Vice President
- Columbus, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with LOBs/Corporate and Finance & Business Managers in all areas of financial management with a focus on cost recovery including budgeting, monthly forecasting and reporting, run-rate analysis, and monitoring allocations
- Develop and track monthly performance, provide financial analysis, and occasionally create presentations on a variety of cost recovery topics to stakeholders
- Responsible for gatekeeping and maintaining billing key tool that provides the methodology for billing out expense to clients
- Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and present commentary to clients, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
- Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible
- Work with tax partners to prepare and provide data to support investment spend and UK Vat audits, as well as with legal entity controllers to address concerns.
- Provide support for inter and intra LOB transfers to ensure that the outgoing allocations portion of the transfer are addressed.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- 7+ years of relevant work experience
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability and desire to operate in multiple financial tools to track/analyze data
- Curious, enthusiastic and diligent, capable of challenging peers, and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
- Ability to create ad-hoc reporting for senior management
- Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments with often little lead time or information
- Respected team player and trusted partner, liaising between Finance & Business Management teams and LOB clients to clarify product details and allocation charges.
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
- Experience with digital transformation initiatives and relevant technologies
- Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets