Senior Financial Analyst

HDR, Inc.; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR, Inc. is seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Financial Analyst to act as a strategic business partner for Corporate Executives. This role involves annual planning, financial forecasting, and developing key performance indicators for various departments.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of finance or accounting experience, exceptional communication skills, and proficiency in financial reporting tools like Excel and Power BI.

Join a dynamic team committed to continuous process improvement and innovative financial solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a finance or accounting role within a large organization.
• Ability to present financial information to finance and non-financial audiences.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a focus on process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support annual planning, monthly forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Lead the development of dashboard visualizations and reporting.
• Communicate financial insights to executive stakeholders.

Skills

Financial analysis

Strong communication skills

Critical thinking

Problem-solving skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Power BI dashboard creation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business analytics, Mathematics, Economics

Tools

Oracle's E-Business Suite

Microsoft Power BI

Hyperion applications

Snowflake or SQL based data platforms

Job description

Responsibilities

As a Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Financial Analyst, you will be the strategic business partner to various Corporate Executives supporting annual planning, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and dashboard development of their department key performance indicators. You will also be responsible for corporate and operations management reporting and enterprise annual budgeting support. This role also prepares financial/key metrics presentations for executive leaders and Board of Director meetings. This position will report to the Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis.

• Lead for corporate business partners regarding budgeting, monthly reporting, variance analysis, monthly forecasting, and assisting leaders to understand the financial "story"
• Lead for establishing key performance indicators in partnership with the corporate business partners and developing dashboard visualizations and reporting.
• Lead for executive company-level monthly management reporting for operations and corporate overhead. Communicates with Executive stakeholders on a regular, ongoing basis. Create intuitive visualizations and dashboards to provide insights to the Executive Leadership team and Corporate business partners.
• Key contributor for various reporting to support Board of Director material preparation as well as Executive Leadership presentations
• Collaborate with members of Finance, Accounting, Enterprise Data Operations, Hyperion, and Operations teams for process improvements, appropriate analyses, data validation and solutions for management reporting
• Performs research and analysis to support variance analysis for corporate/operations
• Ability to communicate Financials to non-financial business partners
• Support various data and system transformation processes
• Provide insight and analysis on complex financial and operational metrics.
• Constantly seeking process efficiencies and improvements to automate reporting processes through AI enablement
• Provide our business partners accurate and timely financial reporting
• Document processes, reporting and define key metrics
• Special projects as assigned by supervisor, Financial Planning and Analysis Director, Chief Financial Officer and/or others

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business analytics, mathematics, economics, or applicable field
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a large organization serving in a finance or accounting role
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are critical as this role will interact directly with senior executives and all levels of management in operations, corporate and finance & accounting
• Must demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ideal candidate is highly organized and detailed oriented, questions the status quo and is always seeking process improvement and efficiencies in reporting
• Desire and willingness to dig into the details. Attention to details is critical to deliver timely, quality and accurate management reporting
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI
• Organization of Data; Must be able to present financial information to finance and non-financial users in a succinct and easily understandable manner. This individual must excel at "telling the story" of the financials
• Experience with Oracle's E-Business Suite, Business Intelligence, Hyperion applications, and Microsoft Power BI experience is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a large organization serving in a finance or accounting role.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business analytics, mathematics, economics, or applicable field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are critical as this role will interact directly with senior executives and all levels of management in operations, corporate and finance & accounting.
• Must demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ideal candidate is highly organized and detailed oriented, shows initiative and curiosity, questions the status. quo and is always seeking process improvement and efficiencies in reporting.
• Desire and willingness to dig into the details. Attention to details is critical to deliver timely, quality and accurate management reporting.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, and Power BI dashboard creation.
• Self-starter and curiosity to seek innovative solutions and implement advance analytics using AI tools.
• Organization of Data; Must be able to present financial information to finance and non-financial users in a succinct and easily understandable manner. This individual must excel at "telling the story" of the financials.
• Experience with Oracle's E-Business Suite, Snowflake data platform or other SQL based data platform , Co-pilot, Microsoft Power Automate, Hyperion Cloud applications, is a plus.