Finance Analyst

Description

SUMMARY

The Finance Analyst supports financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and decision support across ARCO Innovations and its operating businesses. The position converts financial and operational data into clear analysis, maintains recurring models and reports, and partners with business leaders to explain results and support informed decisions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Other duties may be assigned)

· Rotate through transactional accounting roles to gain a thorough understanding and help implement technology to make tasks more efficient.

· Manages assigned components of the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting process.

· Prepares monthly financial and operational reporting, including budget-to-actual, forecast-to-actual, prior-period, volume, price, mix, margin, and expense variance analysis.

· Maintains financial models, management reporting files, dashboards, and key performance indicator schedules; validates source data and investigates inconsistencies.

· Analyzes revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital, capital expenditures, and other performance drivers for assigned businesses or functions.

· Provides analytical support and written commentary explaining material variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.

· Partners with Accounting during month-end close to understand results, identify unusual activity, and improve management reporting.

· Builds ad hoc analyses and business cases for pricing, customer and product profitability, investments, cost savings, and operational initiatives.

· Collects, analyzes, and summarizes financial results for presentations to senior management.

· Supports data gathering and analysis for acquisitions, integrations, and other strategic projects as assigned.

· Documents recurring reporting and planning processes and recommends improvements to data quality, controls, and efficiency.

· Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None required.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related field and 1-3 years of relevant financial analysis, accounting, operations, sales, or business analytics experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Experience in distribution, manufacturing, or a multi-entity environment is preferred.

CERTIFICATION, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None required. Progress toward a CPA, CMA, CFA, or MBA is preferred.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

· Working knowledge of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, ratio analysis, variance analysis, and trend analysis.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, PivotTables, lookups, charts, and structured financial models; experience with Power Query or Power BI is preferred.

· Ability to organize, reconcile, and analyze data from ERP, reporting, and spreadsheet sources.

· Strong financial, quantitative, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills with attention to detail.

· Ability to communicate financial information clearly to financial and nonfinancial audiences.

· Ability to manage multiple deadlines, work independently, and collaborate effectively across functions and operating companies.

· Proficient computer skills with a solid understanding of Microsoft Office, especially spreadsheets and reporting tools.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Work involves standing and walking for brief periods of time, but most duties are performed from a seated position. There is potential for eye strain from reading detailed materials and looking at a computer screen. Work normally requires finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination to operate computer keyboards at a moderate skill level. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

If travel is requested, a valid government driver’s license and an acceptable driving record, as determined by company standards and insurer requirements, are required. All vehicles operated for Company purposes must be legally registered with appropriate government authorities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The position is located in a professional office atmosphere with a team-oriented environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

FLSA: Exempt