Financial Analyst job vacancy

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Job Title: Financial Analyst

Job Location: Campbell, CA

Job Type: Full Time

Job Purpose:

Financial Analyst is responsible to provide controlling and major stakeholders with value-added business and financial analysis on trends on which sound business arguments/decisions can be made. This analysis shall be used not only for insight into the business results but also be used as a sound basis for any forecasting, budgeting, and business strategy processes.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Month-end reporting:

Cost trend analysis, highlighting areas of fluctuation against the budget but also anomalies to help the business take pro-active measures
Cross-check sales commission status and align with local finance and central controlling
Logic tests with regards to sales and cost of sales mix
Customer profitability and forecast quality scorecard creation
Funnel reconciliation and analysis

Budget:

Help create the baseline data whilst providing support and analysis to the sales team to ensure a clear and fact-based bottom-up sales budget which ties to the OPEX and headcount planning
Act in a supporting role for the controlling department in the creation and consolidation of full group budget

Sales analysis:

Analyse customer monthly sales and product mix to be able to provide data-driven feedback to sales to understand customer buying behaviour
Work together with product management discount behaviour of certain customers and or product lines
Customer and product line deviation analysis v's budget and last year
Funnel review to provide sales with early warning signs of potential gaps due to funnel movements
Ad-hoc analysis to provide greater insight into install base, funnel, actual performance
Support Director Business Controlling with Quarterly Business Review documentation and standard KPI Scorecards for the sales teams

Commercial governance:

Assist finance team with Credit Check information (eg using D&B tool or public data)
Check that discounts given are approved and documented
Work with sales and controlling to review the sales funnel against overdue receivables and provide on-time credit level warnings
Work with Director Business Controlling on setting up and implementing a clear set of best practice commercial rules within sales and controlling

Sales commission:

Data integrity:

Make data checks on the funnel and actual sales/billings to ensure correct role up and that the close dates in the funnel are up to date
Align with Business Operations on planned deliveries and incoterms are correct when referring to sales revenue forecasting

Interactions:

Facilitate sales and business operations with value-added business support based on facts and future predictions, being ahead of the curve.
Support to regional Finance lead if required with relevant business analysis
Support the budget process by supplying bottom-up analysis and business arguments for the reasoning behind the planning.
Act as a sparring partner with Director Business controlling on possible report creation/improvements to ensure that the message to the organization is data-driven and easy to understand
Performs, reviews and approve ad-hoc analyses that potentially have a significant impact on one or more business units and is dedicated to various stakeholder.
Be the regional lead for commission planning and execution, reporting back to the central Controlling team

Special Projects:

Special Conditions:

Restricted holiday at month-, quarter- and year-end (as well between Christmas and New Year);
Flexibility in times of increasing workload;
Confidentially about business plans and personal data.

Organizational Responsibility:

Reports to Director Business Controlling.
Contributes to and liaises with all departments within the American entities in Campbell and Ashburn.
Close co-operation with Finance / Sales and Business Operations.