Senior Financial Analyst #21923 - Full-time

This position in the Line of Business Finance Organization will be responsible for supporting various departments within Payment Services with an emphasis on business analytics, productivity and performance reporting. This Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) role offers a challenging opportunity for someone to apply existing skills creatively in a growing and fast-paced portion of our business.

Responsibilities:
•Analyze key Payments initiatives, determine historic value baselines, establish productivity benchmarks and measure achievement of strategic objectives
•Forge strong business partner relationships to better understand programs and how best to determine and report their efficiency, establish unit costs or other key benchmarks when appropriate and in a way that can be measured over time
•Partner closely with the Planning Teams to provide key insights to program expenses and resource allocation during the annual and strategic planning processes
•Identify opportunities to optimize investments and resource allocation
•Conduct periodic analysis to test intra-company allocations for items like technology, corporate overhead and other shared services
•Make recommendations on appropriate segment (P&L) geography for new initiatives based on historic precedence or develop framework for new programs
•Optimize and manage P&L as well as statistical data entity structures, hierarchies, etc. to best highlight existing as well as new program performance
•Track large-scale Payment Services initiatives and projects relative to original assumptions
•Produce monthly reports for key business drivers, vendors and expense summaries
•Monitor and track headcount levels and administrative costs, testing parameters to corporate standards and identifying outliers
•Collaborate with business partners to achieve strong results
•Assist with CBAs (Cost Benefit Analysis) for projects when necessary
•Fulfill Ad hoc requests / Executive presentations / Earnings Release

Qualifications

•5 years minimum work experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), and/or consulting
•MBA, top-tier business school ideally
•Experience in problem-solving, financial modeling and data driven analysis
•Advanced Excel knowledge, including macros
•Strong communication (oral and written), interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills required. Must have demonstrable ability to successfully interact effectively with all levels in the organization
•High level of initiative and critical thinking to formulate business issues into analytical problems and devise actionable solutions
•Ability to work under minimal supervision, ambiguity and under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, ever changing environment
•Proactively engage business partners and help them make sound, informed financial decisions
• Excel VBA programming preferred
•Knowledge of unit costing, cost allocation methodologies or activities-based costing
•Hyperion Planning / Essbase
•Lean six sigma and/or demonstrated process improvement experience a plus We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.