FP&A Analyst

Job Description

Position Title: FP&A Financial Analyst

$110,000 – $125,000

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Salaried Full-Time

6400 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN

Takes ownership, responsibility and leads work efforts in the following areas:

• Supports broader strategic plan and enterprise, developing ad hoc financial analysis to understand trends in key Business or Enterprise performance drivers – serves as thought partner in Enterprise strategic or financial analysis/projects
• Supports efforts to maintain good communication with Business MBAs and Analysts’ to ensure driver based analytics are aligned with Finance, Business, and Enterprise needs – Monthly Business Reviews, external communications, ad hoc requests
• Supports efforts to align business targets (plan, forecasts, outlooks) with supporting analytics and driver based impacts — tracking key assumptions and performance metrics
• Support EBITDA build and strategy deployment analysis

• Annual Execution Plan / Forecasting
• Business Execution Planning — coordinates with Group leads to assist with function-based operating plans and forecasts.
• Business Analysis — develops reporting and delivers variance analysis – identifying drivers and trends
• Leads development of process within business verticals
• Responsible for ensuring data information systems (BPC/SAP) are updated, coordinating in junction with COE Reporting & Analysis and Info. Technology groups.
• Build and develop forecast reporting.
• Performs financial/driver based analysis to understand business earnings variances to overall reporting

• Monthly/Quarterly Reporting
• Coordinate communication with key stakeholders (Business Verticals) for data requirements.
• Develop monthly FP&A Reporting package for senior management.
• Consolidate and outline key financial metrics for enterprise and business
• Review and report on Business variances — developing key understandings
• Consolidate and drive primary analytical reporting of business and enterprise performance using financial/driver based approach – Earnings variances, Commercial/Cost components EBIT/EBITDA reconciliations — for the primary purpose of reporting to senior leadership.
• Analysis and reporting of key business drivers and performance metrics
• Communicate preliminary/final business results, analyzing financial variances and trends (periodic and quarterly budgets, actuals, forecasts, and other targeted metrics) to report out to senior management.
• Develops quarterly Vertical based earnings analysis for external reporting purposes, in conjunction with Investor Relations efforts to develop quarterly analyst call presentation
• Coordinates FP&A efforts to maintain key financial and performance metrics for continuing operations, as well as past performance of discontinued operations, mergers and acquisitions
• Researches past performance to align with current operating structures
• Assists in maintaining data governance and integrity (internal/external communications)

• There are periods of time on a monthly/quarterly basis (BOD meeting dates and other project deadlines) where working late and unusual hours are required (including an occasional Saturday/Sunday).
• External Environment — competition, markets, new technology and information sources, new/changing accounting standards.
• Internal Environment — learning SAP and BPC systems, comfortable with the Performance and Consolidation reporting structures, dealing with Transformation, corporate changes (acquisitions & divestitures).
• Meeting tight deadlines — team represents the anchor position that must deliver meaningful and relevant reports/analysis/presentations on time.
• Problem solving (and critical thinking), developing clear and concise answers to complex issues, adapting to change (constantly).
• Must be detail oriented and have excellent time management skills to meet deadlines and complete multiple tasks. Should demonstrate potential to develop good people/supervisory skills.

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