Financial Analyst

Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join our team. The Financial Analyst is crucial in supporting the organization's financial planning and analysis processes. This position involves gathering and analyzing financial data to provide insights and recommendations that facilitate strategic decision-making. The Financial Analyst will assist the Accounting Manager in analyzing Accounts Receivable aging and delivering customer-specific metrics to enhance collection efforts. Additionally, the analyst will prepare budgets, forecasts, and financial models and conduct variance analysis to identify discrepancies between projected and actual performance. This candidate must be capable of working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple tasks simultaneously, and providing ad hoc reporting and analysis as required.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Analyze financial information; prepare forecasts, budgets, and financial reports.

• Develop complex Excel financial models for forecasting, trending, and results analyses.
• Monitor budget variances, provide financial and procedural reporting and analysis of department funds and fiscal activities (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly), and develop ad-hoc reporting for key business initiatives, as requested.
• Assist in preparing executive-level and entire company KPI development, reporting, and automation.
• Provides monthly financial reporting to all branches, regions, and regional vice presidents on their financial performance year over year and compares it to the annual budget.
• Assists with auditors at year-end, including preparing schedules and providing supporting documents.
• Assists the Accounts Receivable Manager with analyzing the Accounts Receivable aging and providing customer-specific metrics and targeted collections efforts.
• Assists the CFO with the calculation of the company's quarterly bonuses.
• Assists in the annual pricing analysis and increases with the Regional Vice Presidents.
• Provides information to management by assembling and summarizing data, preparing reports, and presenting findings, analyses, and recommendations.
• Develops sales and customer profitability reporting and distributes to Regional Vice Presidents, Account Managers, and senior management.
• Prepares and distributes financial and metrics reporting to all levels of the organization.
• Partner with other groups within Finance & Administration to provide thorough financial support
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of Five (5) years of experience in finance or business
• Working knowledge of principles of accounting and financial management.
• Demonstrated skill in financial analysis, planning, preparation, and administration of complex budgets with multiple funding sources.
• Skill in independently prioritizing assignments to complete work promptly when there are changes in workload, projects, and a heavy workload.
• Demonstrated writing skills to compose logical, comprehensive, and grammatically correct correspondence, procedures, and reports.
• Must be highly proficient in MS Excel, Macro support and development preferred
• Skill in PC, Excel, Word, Outlook, and other computer software products.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.

While performing this job, the employee must stand for long periods, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone, keyboard reach, stoop, and kneel. This person must be able to lift, carry, or set down up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by his job include close vision requirements due to computer work.

Travel

Occasion travel may be needed.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time, on-site Exempt position. Typical work days and hours are from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Employees must be available during the "core" work hours.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the organization's ongoing needs.

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.