FP&A Senior Analyst

Overview

Our Mission
Advancing Essential Intelligence.

About The Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 10

S&P Global Corporate

Role: FP&A Senior Analyst

The Team: The S&P Global Market Intelligence Divisional Finance team is a dynamic group that partners with business leadership to support the growth of the Market Intelligence business. The team also collaborates with other divisions and corporate to support enterprise initiatives. Team members are based in Charlottesville, NY, London, Dallas, Denver, Raleigh and Manila.

The Impact: We are looking for a candidate who will contribute to the financial reporting and analysis of the Market Intelligence business functional groups, providing insights from analyzing financial and non-financial data. The ideal candidate combines analytic tools and business partnering expertise to identify and manage key performance drivers, translate data into actionable insights, optimize processes, and build financial models to test scenario effectiveness.

The role supports decision-making and forecasting driven by large data analyses. Experience in building and implementing forecasting models using various data analysis tools is required. The role may involve presenting findings to senior business leaders.

What’s in it for you: The global and dynamic nature of the business offers development opportunities within the role and the wider Finance team. With strong leadership, attention to detail, and good communication and influencing skills, you will support the execution of the management team’s key priorities and strategies. You will leverage big data aggregation and analysis tools to build analytical workflows supporting strategic initiatives and provide timely financial recommendations to management for decision making.

You will work with colleagues across divisions on enterprise and divisional projects.

• Provide high quality financial information that is timely with actionable commentary and analysis.
• Accumulate data from various company sources to assist in monthly financial deliverables.
• Perform revenue validations using analytical procedures and investigate variances via billing data, accounting systems, and customer contracts.
• Assist in developing and distributing management reporting that tracks key performance metrics against business goals.
• Track operational expenses and analyze expense trends.
• Prepare key hiring and other expense metrics.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, implement best practices, and reduce complexity.
• Assist in special projects or key initiatives for the divisional finance organization.
• Provide analysis and guidance on headcount management to optimize cost structure in the short and long term.
• Articulate actions needed to deliver current year forecasts and budgets.
• Collaborate with business leaders on budgets and forecasts with objectives to ensure up-to-date revenue and expense forecasts and accurate budgets reflecting long-term plans.

Basic

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Math or related field; MBA and/or CPA.
• 5+ years’ experience in Financial Analysis, Operations, and/or Accounting in a large, complex organization.
• Demonstrated investigative research and analytical capabilities to provide accurate interpretation of financial information.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to develop and implement innovative solutions.
• Experience in dashboard design (e.g., Tableau) and clear visual presentation of quantitative information.
• Advanced MS Excel skills (Pivot tables, V-Lookups, IF functions) and PowerPoint.
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP is preferred.
• Proficiency with Oracle Financials or similar systems;
  Anaplan and Oracle Smartview are strongly preferred.

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