POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior FP&A professional is responsible for the preparation and communication of accurate and timely financial reports, analyses, forecasting, and planning. The professional will be relied on to generate reports that assess company and/or business-unit performance, drive ad-hoc business reports, special project assignments in addition to influencing P&L management through report development. This position will work closely with senior management and will play an active role in influencing financial and operational decisions. This role requires a self-starter with a strong financial modeling experience, project management experience, problem solving skills, a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and solid skills in communication and thought leadership. The successful candidate must be able to think strategically, perform dive deep analytics and communicate effectively with senior management.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
In order to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties outlined below. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Financial Analysis:
Provides accurate and timely financial analyses, communication, ongoing monitoring and evaluation for programs and teams to aid in decision-making to improve financial performance. Draws conclusions based on semi-complex data sets; develops basic models. Manages the development and monitoring of financial targets and metrics. Prepare ad-hoc analyses for senior management.
PLANNING AND FORECASTING:
Supports Companywide plan and forecast process to provide direction in decision making, to provide controls and to effectively allocate resources in support of the company’s strategic goals. Continuously improves the reliability of planning and forecasting processes. Provides overall support for the annual process and independently completes aspects of the planning and forecasting process as assigned. Continuously improve internal processes and existing models and tools. Maintain effective communication process with key stakeholders and business partners to ensure that budgets and monthly/quarterly analyses are accurate, complete, and timely; implement corporate initiatives, including changes in reporting requirements.
REPORTING:
Develops, prepares, and presents financial reports that include accurate, reliable, relevant, timely information to provide direction in decision making or to satisfy regulatory requirements. Completes scheduled reports; proactively prepares various reports to both internal and external customers. Creates custom reports based on business needs. Track sales performance and overhead costs, providing detailed analysis of variances from established trends overall or in certain sub-categories and territories.
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS:
Actively collaborates with business partners to assess the need and proactively leverages subject matter expertise to identify and share short- and long-term opportunities for improved financial performance and strategic decision making. Develops and maintains a strong knowledge base related to reporting best practices, industry, products channel structure, customers, competitors, and strategies for the teams they support.
SYSTEMS:
Selecting, managing, and utilizing systems and tools to facilitate accurate and reliable knowledge capture, organization, tracking, and reporting of data.
Super User - Completes more detailed maintenance. Provides guidance and backup. Makes decisions and sets improvement and business application strategies; keeps up to date on system technologies.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
● None
COMPETENCIES
· Finance skills in financial planning and analysis disciplines.
· Problem-solving abilities to solve complex problems.
· An excellent team player who collaborates cross functionally and with individuals from different backgrounds and with different levels of experience.
· Conceptual and innovative thinkers who can take a vision and create better processes/solutions.
· Strong oral, written, and presentation skills to deliver effective, confident, and results-oriented communications and presentations to people at all levels of the organization, including executive management.
· Demonstrated organizational skills to manage workload, multiple priorities, and competing time demands to meet deadlines.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
● Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting or Economics, MBA a plus
● 5-8 years related work experience.
COMPUTER SKILLS
● Financial, Sales, and Business analytics / reporting required.
● Salesforce and NetSuite experience preferred.
● Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus. Also requires the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, smartphones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and scanners.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Noble provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, or any other protected category in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Noble complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.
