Description
Position: Mid-level Financial Analyst w/Budget Analysis experience.
Location: San Jose, CA
Duration: 6-months to start. Likely to be over 1 year.
Position Description:
-Group provides analysis data for IT group that supports Companys Supply Chain.
-The IT Group builds and manages the software and the hardware that the software sits upon for the entire Company Supply Chain.
-This group has many projects and multiple programs in flight.
-You may start your day with list of tasks to accomplish. Requests will come your way. Based on deadlines you will have to re-prioritize your tasks to meet the requested deadlines.
-All analysis impacts business decisions.
-This group provides analytics for the business operation.
-Group is evolving, as Company is working towards connecting systems and choosing systems to make business and reporting more effective, as well as better match business processes.
-All is evolving as Company is in process of re-aligning organizations to be more efficient. Currently moving groups around to better align, to allow Company to be more agile and responsive to a changing market.
-If the quarter was going to close today, where are we with current projects, finance, etc?
-This is the data the candidate will be maintaining on a regular basis, to answer the question.
-Strong people skills required, with strong communication skills.
-Need experience communicating with Corporate Finance.
-Need strong communication and collaboration skills.
-You will need to find people who hold information you need. Get the information from them to put together your information.
-Strong Excel ability and experience and ability to work in PowerPoint to create presentations.
-Need to be able to run reports using Hyperion Essbase.
-There are timelines outlined for regular reporting that outlined when information is due.
-In addition you will also be asked to provide ad hoc information, as requested.
-As candidate communicates with people, and finds issues, any suggestions for improvement will be noted and credit for improvement will be recognized by group. Ex) Business process improvement, more efficient way to report. Capturing data to add to analysis capability, etc.
-They now have a monster Excel spreadsheet that organizes this data from the dump according to program, projects, and project alignment to each Director.
Thanks,
Jacklyn Ho
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