Financial Planning Analyst (El Segundo)

The Central Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) group is a critical role in company success, providing senior leaders with visibility of company entities financial trajectory, advising on trade-offs, risks and opportunities and aligning financial strategies with operational goals. This role is led by the Central FP&A Manager and will work closely with FP&A and Accounting peers to deliver planning and project deliverables.

The ideal candidate is an experienced, high performing analyst that can hit the ground running in a high pressure / high performance environment, and quickly learn data structures and our business to make an impact on the planning deliverables.

Responsibilities :

• Strong technical accounting skills, applies in depth knowledge of the drivers of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet to prepare forecasts and plans
• Proficiency with researching data in SAP (not transactional processing) and building dashboards and analyzing data in Tableau or other analytical tools
• Strong business acumen with an understanding of the marketing, accounting, decision support models, operations, leadership, and financial levers that drive sales, margin and profit and balance sheet impacts
• Deep experience with data mining, data analytics, predictive modeling, and advanced modeling techniques
• Ability to simplify and concisely communicate complex financial concepts and forecast outputs
• Business acumen to run FP&A processes for a multi-entity portfolio of companies (including commercial and operational units)
• Create high quality outputs for senior stakeholders with short turnaround time
• Ability to work independently, productively, and follow through on all responsibilities to bring projects to a successful conclusion
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners; being able to guide leaders and provide feedback / direction on investment and commercial decisions
• Ability to apply knowledge of multidisciplinary business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
• Ability to translate business needs and goals into an analytic approach and response.
• Ability to communicate complex finance concepts effectively to non-finance leaders.

Qualifications :

Pay Rate : $55-$70 / hour