Financial Analyst II

Financial Analyst II

ImpassionedEmboldenedInfinitely Curious : The Bradford Group family of brands is a world leader in new product development. We have been selling joy for the last 50 years! Our global organization consists of business divisions ranging from jewelry, apparel, collectible coins, home decor to holiday and so much more. We concept, create, design and market our creative products directly to our customers, and leverage licenses with the biggest names in entertainment and sports to bring unique and curated products to our customers across the globe.

We are currently seeking a Financial Analyst II who is responsible for the Workday Adaptive database administration that is the primary tool used for the preparation and coordination of the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly financial reporting. Provides senior management, GMs and officers and executives with the analysis, KPI's, and information they need to make major operational, financial, and strategic decisions. Additionally, the role will provide variance analysis, responds directly to management inquiries, and make process improvement recommendations. The position will work on various financial planning and analysis tasks of greater complexity and occasionally directed in aspects or work.

How you will contribute :

• Primary Workday Adaptive Database Administrator which includes system configuration, maintenance, data loads, integrations, and user security. Responsible for annual budget, quarterly forecasting and multi-year planning processes for North American and International Operations.
• Help drive the budget and forecast process by partnering with key business functions to understand the activities driving financial performance and coordinate related inputs.
• Prepare and analyze financial reports, management reporting packages, and variance analyses when comparing actual results against budget, forecast, and prior years.
• Responsible for budget communications, developing and projecting centralized assumptions, report development and user training.
• Perform monthly uploads and validation of actual data to the Adaptive Insights platform to facilitate accurate reporting, providing a complete global view of the company.
• Support monthly financial reporting by providing analysis of operational, performance and financial metrics, KPIs and trends in comparison with expectations and past performance.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to support the preparation and consolidation of the annual budget, quarterly forecasts and other financial and strategic reporting.
• Write up and visualize the key takeaways or findings in a non-financial voice for understanding across the organization.
• Responds directly to management inquiries and data requests.
• Provide ad hoc financial support to functional teams across the business to drive strategic decision making and support business activities.
• Challenges the status quo, proactively make process improvement recommendations, and applies technology to reduce cycle time.
• Analyze performance and work with teams across the Global organization to assess variances, performance issues, determine impact on current and future results and resolve independently.
• Provides leadership on special projects.

What you will bring and skills that excite us :

Bradford at a glance :

Compensation :

The Bradford Exchange is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

#LI-Hybrid