Job Description
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. These are the most significant job duties performed; other responsibilities or assignments not specifically mentioned may also be assigned (please list 5-8 responsibilities along with percentage of time associated with each).
Reporting 20%
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs, define key performance indicators (KPIs), and develop standardized reporting packages, dashboards, and metric-driven insights for leadership.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly financial forecasts, highlighting trends, risks and performance drivers.
- Build and maintain financial models to support budgeting, planning and scenario analysis.
- Produce daily, weekly, and monthly reporting to ensure stakeholders have consistent and timely visibility into operational and financial data.
- Adjust report design and delivery cadence in response to evolving business or financial shared services requirements.
- Safeguard data accuracy and integrity across all reporting tools through strong data governance and qualitycontrol practices.
- Monitor and communicate reporting progress and deliverable status to management.
Data Analysis – 30%
- Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) across accounts receivable, collections, cash applications, credit, corrections, billing, and P2P, while conducting in-depth data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and insights that guide business decisions.
- Build, enhance, and maintain financial and analytical models to improve forecasting accuracy and support strategic initiatives.
- Perform data mining and statistical analysis to uncover patterns within large datasets and provide insights that inform decisionmaking.
Business Partnership – 25%
- Serve as a strategic advisor to department leaders by providing financial insights and recommendations.
- Partner with crossfunctional teams to understand business drivers and translate data into actionable insights that support operational and financial decisions.
- Present financial results, trends, and recommendations to senior leadership in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.
Automation and Process Efficiency – 15%
- Identify and implement automation opportunities to increase reporting efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of reporting processes, data sources, and troubleshooting procedures to ensure repeatability and compliance.
- Promote best practices in report reproducibility and establish proactive communication methods for alerting management to production issues and supporting timely resolution.
Audit Support – 5%
- Provide support to internal and external auditors during financial audits.
Training & Development – 5%
- Provide training, guidance, and technical support to junior team members on reporting tools, data processes, and analytical techniques.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- No supervisory responsibility required.
DECISION-MAKING RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This Job has decision-making responsibilities including:
- Providing recommendations based on data analysis
- Developing and updating reports and dashboards to align with business requirements
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum Required Education: Bachelor’s degree (BA) in Accounting, Finance, Business, Data Science, Computer Science or related field from an accredited college or university is required.
- MBA or professional certification (CPA, CFA) is preferred but not required.
- Minimum Required Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), including hands-on budgeting and forecasting in a large corporate environment.
- 4+ years of experience within Finance & Accounting, Finance Operations, or Shared Services functions.
- 4+ years of experience in financial reporting, data analytics, or a closely related discipline.
- Practical, demonstrable experience using SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Google BigQuery, or similar reporting/analytics platforms, with strong skills in extracting, transforming, and modeling complex datasets.
- Demonstrated ability to drive strategic, resultsoriented decisions and take ownership of outcomes.
- Proven ability to partner with and present insights directly to senior leadership.
- Desirable Education/Experience:
- Experience in Financial Shared Services
- Logistics or transportation experience
CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES (list special certifications/licenses that are required or desirable to perform this job):
JOB RELATED COMPETENCIES: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Analytical Skills -
- Able to think critically and leverage available resources to troubleshoot reporting issues and data anomalies, develop solutions, and implement corrective actions.
- Make informed decisions based on a thorough analysis of data, risks, and potential impacts.
- Demonstrates attention to detail.
- Capable of generating ad-hoc reports tailored stakeholder requirements.
- Communication Skills –
- Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate complex financial concepts to various groups at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to translate complex financial data into clear, concise insights for non-finance stakeholders.
- Excellent presentation skills
- Clearly presents data analysis and recommendations.
- Utilizes variety of interpersonal styles and communication methods
- Time Management Skills -
- Demonstrates follow-up skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Provides timely and professional support to all internal/external customers.
- Prioritizes routine reporting tasks and adhoc reporting requests, managing time and resources effectively to ensure work is completed accurately and efficiently within the designated time frame.
- Other -
- Self-motivated.
- Works with minimal supervision.
- Builds and maintains effective, collaborative work relationships both internally and externally.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.