Financial Analyst

EBSCO Information Services is a leader in providing optimized research experiences and is seeking a motivated Financial Analyst to support their Go-To-Market Finance team. This role involves partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Product leaders to provide financial insights that drive revenue growth and improve business performance.

Responsibilities

• Engage as support and act as a business partner with the leaders of the business you are assigned to, maintaining a productive relationship that improves understanding of KPIs, their associated financials & P&Ls, and facilitates effective decision making
• Work closely with department heads to develop annual budgets, long-range expense plans (3yr), and monthly forecasts
• Prepare and distribute timely and insightful financial analysis to determine progress against budget and long-range plans
• Execute monthly reporting and forecast analysis that facilitates business decisions
• Actively interpret and review monthly financial results with business leaders, including variance analysis of current trends, to identify and communicate potential risks and opportunities
• Evolve the various forecasting, budgeting, and other tools to ensure that accuracy and quality are always improving
• Complete and contribute to special projects as needed, such as internal business proposals and business cases, vendor and prepaid tracking, headcount reporting, acquisition support, and other ad hoc requests

Skills

• 1-2 years of professional work experience in financial analysis, financial/strategic planning, and/or budgeting preferably within a technology and/or subscription-based revenue company
• Track record of experience in working through planning cycles
• Experience with SAP, Board, or similar planning and ERP tools
• Skilled with MS Office Suite, specifically Excel
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills with the ability to identify key trends and drivers within financial data with experience to translate that into meaningful information
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner with all levels of the organization
• Bias for action with a high degree of self-motivation to work with minimal supervision
• Team player who is comfortable being coached
• Working knowledge of accounting and finance principles, GAAP

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