Senior Analyst - Financial

Wesco
Pittsburgh, PA

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be responsible for the preparation, coordination, and documentation of forward-looking financial and business-related projects. You will prepare financial forecasts and/or reports and provides strategic analytical expertise for assigned areas. You will identify issues and suggests courses of action and makes recommendations for improving operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and manage profitability analysis across multiple lines of business.
  • Enhance and maintain standardized approaches in analyzing, evaluating, and obtaining approvals for financial support of RFP’s, bids, and proposed contracts.
  • Evaluate actual performance on contracts vs. proposed.
  • Coordinate across functions and business units to obtain information and garner input on key assumptions and variables.
  • Support development of unit’s annual budget, and tracks and analyzes variances throughout year.
  • Monitor progress toward objectives. 
  • Identify issues and suggests courses of action, makes recommendations for improving operations, and resource allocation.
  • Perform additional strategic analytical functions.
  • Conduct detail end of period review of financials to ensure proper reporting.
  • Monitor sales and margins to ensure appropriate billing margin is earned.
  • May provide direction and support to more junior analysts.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors’ Degree - Accounting, Finance, or business related required
  • 3 years required of financial analysis experience; including discounted cash flow
  • 1 year required of data query extraction and analytics experience
  • 1 year required of profit and loss and balance sheet forecasting and management experience
  • Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to translate complex analytical data into easily understandable format
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite – High proficiency in Excel
  • Strong teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
  • Managing and organizing large amounts of data
  • Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects and deadlines
  • Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections
  • Report writing utilizing Hyperion and Oracle
  • Short and long-term budgeting and forecasting, rolling budgets, and product-line profitability analysis is preferred
  • Ability to travel up to 25%

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