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Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analysts are responsible for consolidating and validating the actual budget and/or forecast of key performance metrics, key drivers and assumptions to aid in the development of various models. They will be responsible for performing analysis resulting in value-adding recommendations to various departments throughout the company. Additionally, they assist in the administration of various reporting systems, perform monthly various analysis, and are responsible for other projects and ad-hoc analysis as requested.
Job Duties
- Manage accurate entity structure, data set and calculation in the budget/forecast system. (Essential)
- Create, maintain and ensure accuracy of templates within various system. (Essential)
- Coordinate portions of the annual budget process, consolidate results and review budget models for errors; act as a liaison between Operations, Acquisitions, Accounting and Finance regarding budgeting and forecasting. (Essential)
- Analyze financial and operational results versus forecast and plan, and forecast and actual; research variances and understand the root causes of the variance. (Essential)
- Maintain and provide support for various internal and external reporting models. (Essential)
- Monitor internal Labor Dashboards to ensure accuracy and research variances as needed. (Essential)
- Manage administration of various systems related to budgeting, forecasting, internal reporting, and public reporting. (Essential)
- Assist with the corporate cash flow modeling, and developing models and analyses to aid in the validation of existing forecasts; support strategic initiatives and assist with reviewing critical financial decisions.
- Develop key reporting within various systems to provide timely and actionable financial results.
- Participate in the forecast/budget software implementation and development; assist in evaluation and development of additional models.
- Attend various meetings to disseminate financial information as needed.
- Provide financial support to the Operations department as requested.
- Other duties and special projects as requested.
- Evaluate Company systems and processes for accumulating and reporting data to provide value, adding recommendations to various departments.
- Work closely with other departments to understand and document variances between actuals and budget.
- Perform data analytics over large data sets, summarizing the information into executive level summaries.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of various models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and assist with reviewing critical financial decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance (Required)
- 5 years in budgeting/forecasting experience (Required)
- Working knowledge of multiple budgeting techniques and budgeting tools/software
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail, organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced computer proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Accounting/budgeting software programs
- Prior experience with an accounting software conversion project, a plus
- Prior experience with Anaplan software, a plus
- Prior experience with Tableau, Yardi, Workiva, Netsuite, and/or Anaplan software, a plus
- Prior Experience working at a Big 4 firm, a plus
Source: Sun Communities Career Page
