Bilingual Korean/English Financial Analyst – Forecasting

LG Electronics USA; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No-cost employee premiums for you and

Dependent coverage

Job summary

LG Electronics USA is seeking a Financial Analyst to support sales and business planning through financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and data management. This role maintains reporting tools and master data, preparing recurring sales, profitability, and productivity reports while coordinating monthly business plans with cross-functional partners.

Fluency in Korean and English is required. You will drive cost/benefit analyses, manage planning and reporting activities, and assist with KPI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in data analytics or data management using an ERP system.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, charts, tables, and trend analysis.
• Korean & English fluency is required.

Responsibilities

• Drive cost/benefit and break-even analyses for business initiatives by gathering data, maintaining analysis files, and identifying potential improvement opportunities.
• Own day-to-day planning and reporting activities by maintaining sales, channel, COI, trade mix, and profitability automation tools, developing ad hoc Excel tools, and coordinating data requests and meeting follow-ups.
• Manage master data and reporting inputs through daily Ship-to/Bill-to mapping, Non-Project updates, model master maintenance, sales allocation and accrual data updates, and monthly new model updates with Product Management.
• Manage recurring sales and financial performance reporting, including Retail Daily Sales, weekly NGSI reports, monthly corporate/channel sales, consolidated sales/P&L, Direct Shipment, Ground Rule, customer profit analysis, and account sell-out/sell-through reporting.
• Drive customer and account profitability analysis by preparing data, tracking improvement actions, and addressing routine reporting inquiries.
• Manage monthly and quarterly sales productivity analysis by preparing data, tracking results, and maintaining productivity reports by salesperson and team.
• Coordinate monthly business planning by consolidating inputs from Sales, Product Management, and TD/BU and updating gross/net sales, deductions, marginal profit, P&L, and product/channel plans.
• Coordinate sales and operational KPI planning by maintaining KPI trackers, target inputs, change logs, and bonus templates and driving validation with HR/Corporate Planning.
• Execute monthly and quarterly financial reporting, forecasts, annual budgeting, and ad hoc analyses by collecting data, updating models, and analyzing basic trends and variances.
• Conduct financial and cost analyses for cost reduction, savings, staffing, and resource optimization initiatives in collaboration with senior team members.
• Own the maintenance and continuous improvement of existing accounting, planning, and reporting tools and processes to ensure data integrity, timely reporting, and efficient analyses.
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, TD/BU, HR, Corporate Planning, and other finance and functional teams to collect inputs, drive action-item follow-up, and improve scalable reporting processes and performance metrics.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data analytics

Excel

PowerPoint

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

LG Electronics USA is seeking a Financial Analyst to support sales and business planning through financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, and data management. This role maintains reporting tools and master data, preparing recurring sales, profitability, and productivity reports while coordinating monthly business plans with cross-functional partners.

Fluency in Korean and English is required. You will drive cost/benefit analyses, manage planning and reporting activities, and assist with KPI