Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary
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Penske Logistics is a leading provider of transportation, warehousing, and freight management solutions. The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for data mining and analysis, preparing financial presentations, and providing financial recommendations to management to support decision-making processes.

Responsibilities
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• Perform required monthly financial close related activities including preparing required journal entries to ensure accuracy and compliance

• Analyze financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes

• Develop, update and monitor key performance indicators and key financial metrics or dashboards, highlighting trends and analyzing variances, to understand and be able to communicate the financial health of each location

• Work with the operations team to develop forecasts, and reporting, including financial performance, variance explanations, and cost analysis

• Provide senior management and the operations team with in-depth financial analysis of actual spend to drive insights on trends, investment areas and opportunities to optimize costs, driving better decision making

• Deliver ad hoc reporting and analysis

• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications
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Required
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• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance or other business related field

• 3-7 years of experience in financial planning, analysis, or modeling

• Strong data analytics and mining skills required

• Must be able to exercise moderate independent judgment with direction from supervisor

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required;
Advanced use of MS Access or other Database tools beneficial

• Detail oriented and highly analytical, able to translate data and trends into clearly understandable messaging

• Highly organized and self-motivated individual with a strong work ethic and ability to thrive as part of a financial management team

• Strong understanding of the importance of hands on collaboration with the Operations team and the personnel at the Area, Region and Corporate levels

• Some travel is required

• Complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required

Preferred
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• Logistics/Operations experience preferred

• Quality program certification (Six Sigma, ISO, LEAN, etc.) preferred

Company
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Penske Logistics engineers supply chain solutions. It is a sub-organization of Penske Truck Leasing. Founded in 1969, the company is headquartered in Reading, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.