Financial Associate
Position overview:
You may know us as a company with great food…You may also know us from ‘Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For’ list…ten years in a row.
As part of the fast-paced Strategy, Planning & Analysis Department, this role will learn the details of our daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reporting. This is a unique opportunity to develop analytical and organizational skills to maximizing financial and operational efficiencies for a $3.3 Billion public company with over 47,500 staff members.
You’ll thrive in this position if you’re:
- A Strong Communicator: You’re capable of articulating a message in a clear, concise, and conversational manner.
- A Master Multi-tasker: You’re skilled at juggling multiple priorities at one time.
- Adaptable: You’re at ease in a fast-paced environment and able to change direction rapidly when priorities, deadlines or personalities shift.
Responsibilities
Here’s more of what you’ll get to do:
- Prepare and review key financial reporting schedules for management on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
- Assist the accounting department with the month end close process and corporate consolidated billing
- Enable enhanced analysis through greater and more efficient access to numerous data sources
- Maintain planning tools
- Assist in certain aspects of the annual planning process from supporting the rollout of the annual planning applications and working with the field to support plan submissions
- Perform variance analysis and summarize key findings
- Participate in the weekly key reporting processes
Qualifications
What we require:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Computer Science or related field.
- Knowledge of finance and accounting principles, and ability to read and interpret financial statements.
- Strong computer skills, particularly with spreadsheet modeling (Excel) and presentation software (Powerpoint)
What we prefer:
- Exposure to enterprise planning and/or business intelligence software such as Cognos Enterprise Planning, Board, TM1, Hyperion Financial Management, and MicroStrategy