Senior Financial Analyst
Focus Brands
- Atlanta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Financial Management:
- Oversee brand financial activities, including forecasting, budgeting, and profitability analysis.
- Utilize predictive models to provide actionable insights for financial performance and long-term forecasts.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze relevant information, presenting insightful findings and recommendations to management.
- Support the annual budgeting process and develop cost-efficient initiatives to optimize resource utilization.
- Finance Support:
- Partner with brand teams to provide financial insights and support short and long-term initiatives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve analysis and ensure accurate reflection of monthly performance in financial systems.
- Conduct monthly analysis of profit & loss statements and provide performance recommendations to business partners.
- Assist in preparing monthly and quarterly financial results packages and presentations for senior leadership teams.
- Forecast and Budget:
- Participate in the annual budgeting process and perform quantitative analysis to provide insights on profitability drivers.
- Conduct detailed research and variance analysis against forecasts, budgets, and actuals.
- Assist in coordinating and analyzing monthly forecast cycles and financial statement forecasting.
- Financial Reporting:
- Prepare and automate detailed financial reports, dashboards, and presentations for management and finance team.
- Reconcile financial systems to ensure accurate reflection of business data in financial reporting.
- Respond to ad hoc financial analysis requests.
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting (Required), Master's Degree (Preferred)
- 3-5 years of progressive finance or FP&A experience (Required), experience in forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis (Required), retail, franchisee, restaurant, food, or beverage experience (Preferred)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, with extensive skills in MS Excel.
- Ability to build, organize, and retrieve reports using financial software applications.
- Working knowledge of budgeting and forecasting models, processes, and financial reporting systems.
- Strong analytical, communication, and project management skills.
- Ability to manage complex projects in a constantly changing environment while meeting critical deadlines.