Published: July 25, 2025 - The Financial Planning Analyst prepares accurate and timely financial reports with insightful commentary to support strategic decision-making. This role assists in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis by identifying key business drivers and leveraging historical trends and data models. The analyst also focuses on enhancing financial analysis effectiveness, collaborating across teams, and developing tools to improve the overall analytical capabilities of the finance function.

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1. Financial Planning Analyst, Riverstone Holdings, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Develop rapport with clients and establish yourself as the trusted first point of contact.
- Guide clients' questions about their investment portfolios and various financial planning issues.
- Prepare for client meetings and ensure that agreed-upon client actions are followed through.
- Liaise with external attorneys and CPAs.
- Create financial plans and various portfolio financial analyses for clients.
- Act as quarterback in directing client inquiries and deliverables that require a Wealth Advisor or Client Relationship Specialist response or action.
- Series 65 completion before undertaking the Certified Financial Planner designation.
- Perform Profitability Analysis (COPA) and report financial results and variances to management
- Prepare financial reports including P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement
- Work with business unit heads to create the annual budget and quarterly forecast
- Ensure accurate Inventory Costing and Cost of Goods Sold
- Calculation of yearly plan tariffs and monthly actual tariffs for Inventory
- Perform cost allocations during the month-end closing of the Controlling module in SAP
- Variance Analysis of Actual with Budget costs by cost centers and profit centers
Skills on Resume:
- Client Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Financial Planning (Hard Skills)
- Portfolio Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Inventory Costing (Hard Skills)
- SAP Controlling (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Coordination (Soft Skills)
2. Financial Planning Analyst, Stonebridge Partners, Eugene, OR
Job Summary:
- Active participation in the annual budgeting process, responsibilities including developing budgeting methodologies, communicating with various business functions to gather data, and maintaining the budget model.
- Compare actual and forecasted financial results and, based on the actual results, perform quarterly reforecasting
- Actualizing short-term cash flow forecast and performing weekly cash flow reforecasting
- Assist the FP&A manager in creating and optimizing the dashboard and KPI reporting
- Estimate the profitability of potential retail locations and incorporate data into budget and cash flow reforecasting
- Provide support to the accounting team during the month-end close process
- Support in the creation of the board of directors and lender presentations
- Ongoing market research and sharing industry insights with key stakeholders
- Participate in special projects or provide financial analysis on an Ad-hoc basis
Skills on Resume:
- Budget Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Financial Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Cash Flow Management (Hard Skills)
- Dashboard Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Retail Profitability Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Month-End Close Support (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
- Market Research (Hard Skills)
3. Financial Planning Analyst, Cresthill Manufacturing, Spokane, WA
Job Summary:
- Responsible for setting up company targets and analyzing the company's business performance and managing all business operations.
- Responsible for operating, evaluating, and monitoring business management.
- Responsible for communication with HQ and the VS company regarding the company's operation, management, and performance
- Establish and forecast the company's short-term and long-term business plan
- Provide financial information for management to make decisions accurately and timely and achieve the company's goal
- Managing and monitoring Key Performance Indicators
- Develop, document and implement the company's processes and procedures
- Working presentations for management on business operations
- Communication with HQ to perform the HQ company's direction regarding business management and performance
- Process payment, manage risk in the payment process.
- Manage and forecast the Company’s Cash Flow (collection, payment) monthly basis.
- Cash management and payment-related reporting
Skills on Resume:
- Business Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
- KPI Management (Hard Skills)
- Cash Flow Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Communication (Soft Skills)
- Process Development (Hard Skills)
- Executive Reporting (Hard Skills)
4. Financial Planning Analyst, Norwood Logistics, Wichita, KS
Job Summary:
- Prepare regular reporting and analysis by using data sources, producing reports that include relevant and insightful commentary, ensuring that the data is accurate and delivered according to deadlines
- Support the Financial Planning Manager in the budgeting, planning and reforecasting processes by assisting in identifying and modelling key business drivers by utilising several approaches, including current and historic trends and regression analysis.
- Add business input and insight to the data
- Work with other analysts and teams throughout the wider business to develop tools, models and processes that improve the analytical capabilities of the finance team.
- Developing the effectiveness and insight generated by financial analysis to continually enhance and improve the analysis provided
- Assist the Senior Financial Planning Manager in the periodic detailed review of actual performance against the budget or reforecast.
- Highlight variances and trends, to then complete a detailed analysis in conjunction with the relevant business area
- Working with the BI team, identify areas for further review and report these to the Senior Financial Manager
- Support ad-hoc analysis, in conjunction with key stakeholders, using past trends to collate future forecasts.
- Understand key drivers and any financial impacts, including periodic reporting of actual performance with regression analysis
- Build good working relationships with key stakeholders within the business to understand business requirements
- Develop strong relationships with other divisional analysts to share knowledge, ideas and best practices
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Data Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Regression Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Business Insight (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
5. Financial Planning Analyst, Beacon Ridge Group, Toledo, OH
Job Summary:
- Provide FP&A support and establish solid business partnerships with various teams such as Production, R&D, and Commercial teams.
- Performs timely monthly review of results and provides analysis of results with budget and forecasted expectations.
- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Supports Leadership Team in performing budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc financial/operational analysis related to revenue planning, cost management, working capital management, headcount control, and operational performance
- Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights.
- Responsible for maintaining financial models to support detailed forecasting and planning, including full Profit & Loss (P&Ls), Balance Sheets, and Cash flow statements
- Develop and maintain analyses to help the management decision process.
- Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
- Assist with Board of Directors or Investor presentations.
- Work on ad hoc projects and initiatives that impact the entire organization.
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Variance Research (Hard Skills)
- Revenue Planning (Hard Skills)
- Cost Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Interpretation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Decision Support (Hard Skills)
6. Financial Planning Analyst, Willow Creek Advisors, Fayetteville, AR
Job Summary:
- Support senior management KPI and strategic initiative reviews that measure performance across the region
- Assist in the coordination, development and presentation of the region's strategic plan, annual financial budget and monthly financial forecast
- Partner with Canada sales and operations teams to monitor key performance metrics, analyze financial results, and identify business trends and variances
- Partner with various business managers on all financial matters, including budget development, planning, and reporting
- Own regional headcount and labor expense reporting, enabling the business to operate strategically enabling the business to respond quickly to evolving needs
- Performs quantitative and qualitative analysis of operational and financial data during the month-end close
- Own and update specific financial models needed to analyze financial results during the month-end close
- Recommend financial actions by assessing options for organizational goals
- Create post-close monthly business review packages and present to Senior management
- Proactively seek out best practice benchmarking opportunities across DFS regions and with Global FP&A
- Lead and/or participate in process improvement initiatives
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with and submit required regional reporting, DFS Global FP&A
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Variance Research (Hard Skills)
- Revenue Planning (Hard Skills)
- Cost Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Interpretation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Decision Support (Hard Skills)
7. Global Financial Planning Analyst, Granite Coast Solutions, Augusta, ME
Job Summary:
- Take a global leadership role in managing and facilitating field sales planning
- Elicit high-level planning requirements and define key business segments for planning
- Build globally standard planning models and templates that meet planning data requirements and incorporate stakeholder feedback
- Consolidate field sales plans from regions, and assess the validity of the submissions against global guidance and requirements
- Collaborate with regional planning and key global stakeholders across multiple regions (e.g., Asia Pacific, Latin America) and functional areas (e.g., Field Marketing, Services, Products)
- Create and guide investment and business plans in support of global sales initiatives
- Build, provide, and present analytics and reporting to key leadership to ensure transparency in and tracking of planning progress and decision making
- Work closely with and utilize the shared services team in India to manage net new analysis requirements and facilitate the development of reporting and insights
- Engage in data structuring and cleansing activities to ensure data is consistent and accurate for management reporting
- Identify and work on issues and areas of improvement for planning
- Lead planning tool implementation projects to build the next-generation planning process
Skills on Resume:
- Sales Planning (Hard Skills)
- Planning Models (Hard Skills)
- Data Validation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Investment Planning (Hard Skills)
- Reporting Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Data Structuring (Hard Skills)
- Tool Implementation (Hard Skills)
8. Financial Planning Analyst, PrairieEdge Capital, Sioux Falls, SD
Job Summary:
- Perform monthly financial analysis for monthly P&L, Balance Sheet (actual, budget, forecast).
- Understand and challenge the underlying performance of clubs whilst identifying areas of improvement to drive business performance.
- Work closely with key stakeholders (e.g., club general managers, functional heads) to follow up on identified areas of improvement.
- Prepare financial reviews and commentaries of clubs' post-refurbishments in comparison to their targeted performance.
- Prepare the monthly/quarterly rolling forecasts, whilst understanding and challenging the business assumptions to improve forecasting accuracy.
- Review for alignment with the company strategy for any OPEX and CAPEX investment.
- Manage the annual budget, 5-Year Plan processes, and improve the quality of reporting of business performance drivers.
- Preparation of standard analysis regularly (e.g., monthly or quarterly), which uses SSRS information to drill down on key metrics, providing visibility and insight on underlying drivers, member behaviour and trends over time, including observations and recommendations to improve performance.
- Deep dive analysis on an ad hoc basis with recommendations to support strategic and tactical decision making and prioritisation (may involve external and internal information)
- Be a business partner and drive action plans with stakeholders, driving operational/profitability targets.
- Measuring the return on initiatives for initiatives undertaken.
- Be responsible for the Brand Performance Review
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Forecast Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Performance Review (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
- OPEX Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Trend Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Support (Hard Skills)
9. Financial Planning Analyst, Harbor Point Services, Dover, DE
Job Summary:
- Maintain and overhaul existing detailed financial models and analysis for the company's quarterly forecasting, annual budgeting, and long-term forecasts
- Prepare thoughtful and insightful monthly analysis of variances to budget/forecasts
- Support the quarterly forecasting process, including the development of the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement forecasts
- Work cross-functionally and support other departments in the bottom-up development of OPEX and CAPEX forecasts and budgets
- Drive the development and measurement of key performance metrics and proactively share insights with the Local Controller and Head of LATAM FP&A
- Support the identification, implementation, and ongoing management of the company's budgeting, forecasting, and business intelligence system(s)
- Work closely with the accounting and other departments to drive the process, data collection and reporting across the organization.
- Managing the reporting on weekly financial and operational performance metrics, Weekly Sales, Back Order, Credit Hold
- Driving cross-business analytic projects for senior management, with financial modeling and presentation support
- Deeply involved in Month End Closing activities, working one weekend per month
- Prepare Revenue Recognition analysis and adjustments every month, Treasury
- Daily upload of Bank Transactions in the electronic banks, to be approved
- Be responsible for Electronic Bank Administration
- Be responsible for the daily cash report
- Cashflow forecast monthly Admin
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Forecast Support (Hard Skills)
- Budget Planning (Hard Skills)
- KPI Development (Hard Skills)
- System Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Cash Management (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Support (Soft Skills)
10. Financial Planning Analyst, SilverOak Group, Macon, GA
Job Summary:
- Working between finance and data teams, ensuring understanding of variances between operational and financial data
- Building and maintaining driver-based models used for forecasting and budgeting.
- Supporting rolling forward-looking projections weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly.
- Deliver meaningful, accurate, and timely reporting & analysis on functional financial performance, thereby supporting functional MT in making fact-based, financially sound decisions
- Ensures quality, accuracy and integrity of information stored in the systems, enabling a single source of truth
- Supports the functional leaders in adhering to their budget using monitoring, reporting and controlling functional projects and project (business) plans
- Performs forward-looking ad-hoc analysis, such as project and strategy evaluation, benchmarking, Price/Volume mix, scenario analysis, etc
- Takes initiative to bring relevant financial issues to the attention of his/her relevant stakeholders.
- Pro-actively support the execution of financial planning by preparing and supporting performance and strategy meetings of relevant stakeholders
- Manage the equity process for existing investors.
- Complete monthly financial statements for three businesses
Skills on Resume:
- Data Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
- Driver Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Rolling Forecasts (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Budget Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Scenario Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Support (Soft Skills)
- Equity Management (Hard Skills)
11. Financial Planning Analyst, Trailhead Consulting, Bismarck, ND
Job Summary:
- Communicating and collaborating closely with Finance Business Partners, other business representatives, and/or other members of the finance team is vital to investigate performance, develop opportunities, maintain alignment and share information
- Supporting Finance Business Partners in discussions with the business by developing reports and/or performing analysis to identify performance issues or support insight requirements
- Providing analytical support to the Finance Business Partners for decisions regarding investment cases and key business developments
- Carrying out financial and data analysis and compiling reports for various business purposes
- Monitoring and management of business and financial performance
- Input to strategic planning, operational planning, forecasting and QBR processes
- Development or assessment of business cases, capital requests, and similar, to ensure strategic fit and commercial feasibility
- Adhering to internal service levels that have been agreed for the Centre of Excellence and the services it provides to customers
- Capturing, validating and compiling quantitative and qualitative information and data, from multiple internal and/or external sources to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Analyzing financial and business data and information using a variety of proven statistical and other analytical techniques to identify trends, anomalies, gaps, etc.
- Interpreting financial information to resolve causality, significance, business impact, or implications, and developing advice or recommendations for action to be approved by others
- Preparing forecasts and reports on a regular or ad hoc basis to meet the needs of internal customers and partners, within agreed timescales
- Ensuring information and interpretation are presented clearly, unambiguously and in a readily comprehensible format appropriate for the audience in question
- Contributing to a broad range of projects and initiatives, potentially including internal reviews, development initiatives and corporate transactions
- Running and/or contributing to the development of financial models, forecasts and analytical processes to meet business needs.
- Continuously supervising and reporting on the external marketplace to feed into team processes and outputs
- Contributing to the production of communications and presentations for external partners
Skills on Resume:
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
- Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Business Partnering (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Data Validation (Hard Skills)
- Insight Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Capital Planning (Hard Skills)
12. Financial Planning Analyst, Clearwater Financial, Bozeman, MT
Job Summary:
- Analyzes actual sales and operating results and identifies key financial and operating issues to be addressed
- Quantifies actual results versus forecast, budget, and prior year.
- Perform data analysis insights, including merging data from multiple sources, running queries on existing data and identifying trends.
- Gather information utilized by operations and FP&A for the Budget and Forecast.
- Analyze monthly, quarterly and annual financial Budgets and Forecasts and assess variances from actual results.
- Assists in the implementation of any new financial systems.
- Support competitive analysis and reporting
- Improve financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends, and recommending actions to management.
- Proactively seeks out continuous improvement opportunities for the Company's existing Business Intelligence solutions.
- Utilize financial analysis skills such as variance analysis and activity-based costing (budgeting), return on investment, and breakeven analysis (capital investments), and contribution margin and incremental costing analysis (growth strategies).
Skills on Resume:
- Sales Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Data Integration (Hard Skills)
- Budget Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- System Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Competitive Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Trend Identification (Hard Skills)
- ROI Analysis (Hard Skills)
13. Financial Planning Analyst, IronPeak Energy, Cheyenne, WY
Job Summary:
- Responsible for the consolidation and reporting of results for the $2.6B Residential segment.
- Provides support and makes recommendations to three distinct business units to aid in strategic decision-making.
- Additional ad-hoc analysis and projections in support of business decisions and initiatives to alert business leaders to changes in market trends and/or macroeconomic events that could materially impact earnings.
- Serves as the lead for annual execution of the financial planning process, including maintaining timelines, developing business unit financial targets, and summarizing those outcomes for segment leaders.
- Responsible annually for direct supervision of one summer intern, including identification of a suitable short-term project with material impact on the business.
- Initiates process improvements and oversees the continued development of complex modeling tools.
- Operates autonomously as a financial subject matter expert within the firm and collaborates cross-functionally with all departments.
- Prepares, publishes, and presents critical financial reporting to all levels of business leadership.
- Displays high motivation and eagerness to learn, drive high-quality results, and create value-added impacts to the business.
- Position interfaces daily with segment leadership, including COO and CFO Candidates should have a demonstrated record of audience-focused communication, leadership courage and be lacking in power distance.
Skills on Resume:
- Results Consolidation (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Support (Hard Skills)
- Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Financial Planning (Hard Skills)
- Intern Supervision (Soft Skills)
- Model Development (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Leadership Reporting (Hard Skills)
14. Financial Planning Analyst, Oakline Advisory, Little Rock, AR
Job Summary:
- Analyze costs and inventory levels to support pricing efforts for new customers.
- Enhance and streamline current financial reports and data sources.
- Prepare and present materials supporting periodic business reviews and quarterly meetings.
- Build and/or utilize existing analytics and supporting written justifications for capital acquisition cases across the entire Tosca business: commercial, operations, and logistics.
- Provide analysis and recommendations to senior management, including the CFO.
- Support management's strategic thinking and decisions via industry/market research and economic thinking.
- Partner with sales and operations to compile monthly forecasts.
- Challenge processes and strive for continuous improvements.
- Collaborate with the IT team to establish processes and automate systems to extract and synthesize business performance data from multiple software sources.
- Perform ad hoc analysis
- Participate in and contribute to key initiatives and projects and additional duties
Skills on Resume:
- Cost Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Inventory Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Capital Planning (Hard Skills)
- Forecast Collaboration (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- System Automation (Hard Skills)
- Market Research (Hard Skills)
- Executive Support (Soft Skills)
15. Financial Planning Analyst, Timber Hill Partners, Columbia, SC
Job Summary:
- Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams
- Preparing, analysing, and reporting key variances in the month-end closing to the senior management team, focusing on accuracy and the remaining cost of delivery
- Prepare and report on key financial drivers impacting the productivity within the delivery units
- Providing FP&A support across the business to both finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Review and challenge business owners on contract performance and cost spending whilst supporting them to fully understand their financial performance
- Delivery of monthly actuals, budgets, presentations, rolling forecast, and business unit cross-charges within tight deadlines set by the group
- Work with the internal SAP project team
- Liaise and partner with the finance lead of new businesses
- Undertake regular meetings and support managers in achieving their financial objectives
- Coordinate and deliver annual training to business managers and their teams
- Perform financial modelling (delta analysis) on new and existing contracts to obtain assurance on full cost recovery plus markup, highlight areas to improve, and provide support on improvement measures
- Continually support business owners to evaluate the effectiveness of operational procedures and controls to maximize departmental productivity and minimise errors
- Collaborate with colleagues cross-functionally to increase efficiency in financial processes, ensuring robust controls are in place
- Expected to work closely with the Head of Controlling on various business proposals supporting growth and investment initiatives
- Identify and flag business risks, cost control, and governance
- Undertake any other duties deemed reasonable in pursuit of the business needs
Skills on Resume:
- Stakeholder Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Variance Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Productivity Analysis (Hard Skills)
- FP&A Support (Hard Skills)
- Contract Review (Hard Skills)
- Financial Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- SAP Collaboration (Hard Skills)
- Risk Identification (Hard Skills)
16. Financial Planning Analyst, Redstone Management, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators, including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses and capital expenditures
- Maintain financial reports to communicate actual results, forecasted performance, and variances to plan, forecast and budget
- Participate in special projects and ad hoc financial requests
- Improve the Company's financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances to plan, identifying trends, and recommending actions to management
- Prepare weekly and period-end financial reports, revenue and expense analysis
- Act as the Finance Business Partner (FBP) with operational leaders and provide clear, compelling information
- Support the implementation of a Business Intelligence Tool
- Help improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies
- Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
- Assist in the preparation of presentations to the Executive Leadership Team and Operational leadership
- Work safely and within the Company's safety policies
Skills on Resume:
- KPI Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Variance Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Trend Identification (Hard Skills)
- Business Partnering (Soft Skills)
- BI Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Process Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Model Development (Hard Skills)
17. Financial Planning Analyst, Blue Ridge Logistics, Roanoke, VA
Job Summary:
- Analyze financial results, key trends, historical data, assess current and future business risks and communicate results to senior management
- Create, organize, prepare and maintain regular month-end closing reports
- Provide relevant explanations of variances to various stakeholders
- Use data and analysis to generate insights to create and format PowerPoint presentations incorporating data tables, graphs and design elements
- Consolidate financial and business data from multiple regional entities
- Ensure the completeness and reliability of financial data and coherency between the Region entities
- Provide ad hoc analysis and reports for senior management
- Support budgeting and forecasting activities
- Maintain internal databases and master data
- Provide information to audit firms for the completion of the year-end audit, corporate tax, and government audit
Skills on Resume:
- Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Month-End Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Variance Explanation (Hard Skills)
- Data Visualization (Hard Skills)
- Data Consolidation (Hard Skills)
- Forecast Support (Hard Skills)
- Audit Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Database Maintenance (Hard Skills)
18. Financial Planning Analyst, Pioneer Growth Partners, Billings, MT
Job Summary:
- Engage in the Company’s annual Budget process.
- Support the continued development of Budgeting and Modeling Tools.
- Become an expert user and trainer of Budget modeling and software analytics tools for measuring results and monitoring assumptions against actual performance
- Develop and monitor company performance trends and analysis.
- Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators (KPI’s), including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, and expenses
- Develop and prepare product line and customer profitability modeling and analysis
- Develop an expense budget for actual analysis, including the use of employee expense reporting tools (Concur) to provide to department managers
- Evaluate Company performance comparisons to market and peer company performance.
- Analyze and develop KPI among peers through public filings and industry data
- Demonstrate consistent ability to present creative solutions and/or different ways to communicate the story behind the data
- Prepare special analyses to provide management with the necessary information and decision-making support
Skills on Resume:
- Budget Development (Hard Skills)
- Modeling Tools (Hard Skills)
- KPI Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Profitability Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Expense Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Peer Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
- Data Storytelling (Soft Skills)
- Decision Support (Hard Skills)
19. Financial Planning Analyst, Sunrise BioHealth, Santa Fe, NM
Job Summary:
- Prepare monthly financial statement, budget to actual comparisons
- Work with department/region managers on explanations and propose actions for improvements
- Assist with the preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial reports and MDA
- Participate in the creation of KPI’s and reports critical to the business tracking and operational process
- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances
- Coordinate activities and travel across business locations and regions to effectively communicate and manage the planning, budgeting and financial reporting processes
- Become a subject matter expert on the topics/areas in the company.
- Participate in the development and/or delivery of training to company employees
- Have excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate steps taken to arrive at conclusions.
- Develop an understanding of the end-use of data analytics for functional teams
- Prepare Enhancement Requests to ERP systems and BI tools for improved efficiency and reduction of manual workflows
Skills on Resume:
- Budget Comparison (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- KPI Development (Hard Skills)
- Performance Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Regional Coordination (Soft Skills)
- ERP Enhancement (Hard Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
20. Financial Planning Analyst, ValleyGate Finance, Reno, NV
Job Summary:
- Own the SHG monthly reporting pack and other monthly Business reports.
- Working with the Group Finance team on month-end reporting and review.
- Working with the Business Unit Treasury Manager to improve the quality of cash flow reporting and analysis from a group perspective.
- Perform maintenance of the contract Register from a group reporting perspective.
- Coordinate annual budgeting and Reforesting Cycle, ownership of group Financial models and liaison with Group on queries and scenario planning
- Working with the business and with the C&C Project Finance manager to significantly enhance the monthly profitability reporting and data insights.
- Work with the wider team and IT to automate and develop reporting capabilities within the business unit.
- Working with the key Financial Stakeholders across the C&C Project Finance manager to gather and develop the key financial information requirements.
- Work with the C&C Project Finance Manager to develop a common stock performance analysis template across the Medtech business units.
Skills on Resume:
- Report Ownership (Hard Skills)
- Month-End Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Cashflow Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budget Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Scenario Planning (Hard Skills)
- Profitability Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Reporting Automation (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
21. Financial Planning Analyst, Horizon West Investments, Mobile, AL
Job Summary:
- Understand budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes
- Make a Job Costing analysis to support the PM team
- Make a budget analysis and a dashboard development
- Build out and quarterly forecasts to budget variance analysis into financial dashboards
- Develop strategic business partnerships with functional and departmental leaders
- Provide support for ad hoc projects
- Transform reporting packages including financials, KPIs, variance analysis and commentary
- Complete or oversee complex analyses of financial and operational results to guide management
- Liaise closely with the finance leadership team to assist in driving operational performance.
Skills on Resume:
- Budget Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Job Costing (Hard Skills)
- Dashboard Development (Hard Skills)
- Forecast Variance (Hard Skills)
- Business Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Ad Hoc Support (Hard Skills)
- KPI Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Operational Guidance (Hard Skills)
22. Financial Planning Analyst, Eastfield Technologies, Montgomery, AL
Job Summary:
- Partnering with budget holders to communicate budgets and support commercial decisions
- Preparing forecasts of both P&L and operating performance to provide insight into the company's strategy and investments
- Delivering financial planning models and analysis to key stakeholders
- Analysing the likes of revenue, costs, balance sheet and cash flow and presenting findings
- Supporting the improvement of budgeting, financial forecasting, and financial modelling tools
- Reporting on a range of KPIs across the business
- Maintain financial models to support budget development and tracking against expenditure
- Developing ways of presenting financial information, such as KPI metrics and dashboard reports, to drive business performance
- Contribute to the development of internal dashboards.
- Support the global FP&A team by updating quarterly models, rolling monthly forecasts and ad hoc analysis.
- Support the accounting team on querying results and variance analysis.
Skills on Resume:
- Budget Communication (Soft Skills)
- Forecast Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)
- Revenue Analysis (Hard Skills)
- KPI Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Model Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Dashboard Development (Hard Skills)
- Variance Support (Hard Skills)
23. Financial Planning Analyst, Skyline Agro, Lincoln, NE
Job Summary:
- Set up and do a forecasting exercise, highlight any risks and opportunities to respective stakeholders (commercial, operations, and FP&A)
- Drive NPD product P&L reviews/margin governance
- Lead the budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, implementation, and business strategic analysis of the group consolidation report as per the company's OKR and business plan
- Increase promotion efficiency by establishing a promotion review culture and driving actions coming out of post evaluations (i.e., pre and post ROI evaluations)
- Support monthly closing processes through marketing/consumer spends review
- Ensure the integrity and accuracy of reporting
- Collaborate with other finance teams and business units to manage reporting, compliance, and controls projects
- Work with business development and key account management team to review trading terms of newly onboarded principals and any ad hoc promotional activities from a financial perspective (margin, FAT operation, ROI)
- Building relationships with department heads, providing financial planning and commercial analytical support.
- Produce quarterly and monthly cash flow forecasts
- Design a practical but challenging plan for the annual budget process, which includes the mutually beneficial accounts within the company
- Participating in monthly summary presentations to top management and key stakeholders.
Skills on Resume:
- Forecast Planning (Hard Skills)
- Margin Governance (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Promotion Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Spend Review (Hard Skills)
- Reporting Accuracy (Hard Skills)
- Cashflow Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Commercial Support (Soft Skills)