Blackbaud
Staff Financial Analyst
Edtech.com's Summary
- Collaborate with senior leaders in Product and Technology as a finance business partner.
- Manage quarterly 24-month forecasts, annual budgets, month-end close, and monthly reporting.
- Perform position and purchase management and detailed cost analysis.
- Use Hyperion (HFM), Hyperion Planning, and Workday to improve reporting processes.
- Analyze vendor contracts and invoices and review variance analyses.
- Develop and implement financial procedures and processes for projects.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, SOX, SEC guidelines, and reporting requirements.
- Create high-quality presentations suitable for executive and strategic audiences.
- Demonstrate strong financial analysis principles, ability to work independently, and excellent communication skills.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information and build effective working relationships across all organization levels.
Staff Financial Analyst Full Description
Reporting to the Director of FP&A, the Financial Analyst will be a professional, independent, and self-motivated individual that focuses on financial analysis for the Product and Technology organization at Blackbaud. This person will be responsible for working closely with senior leaders across this organization. This position will serve as a finance business partner ensuring the accuracy of results focusing on cost analysis, budget/forecasts, business planning and strategy development to drive efficiencies, improve quality and provide visibility. This candidate must be able to work independently, have a strong attention to detail, ability to present to company executives, capable of working with teams, a quick learner, and superior MS Office skills.
What you'll do:
- Work closely with senior leaders in the Product and Technology organization to serve as a finance liaison/business partner to provide support in the following areas.
- Quarterly 24-month forecasts and annual budget
- Month-end close
- Monthly reporting
- Position and purchase management
- Cost analysis
- Drive process improvements in reporting by leading team usage of Hyperion (HFM), Hyperion Planning and Workday tools.
- Provides analysis and summaries of vendor contracts and invoices when appropriate
- Works with other Financial Analysts to review variance analyses for budget, forecast and actual results
- Develops and implements procedures and processes related to the assigned projects.
- Work with the supporting teams assisting in processes such as monthly forecast process as well as any cost model discussions around investments.
- Ensure compliance with company policy, SOX, SEC guidelines and reporting requirements.
- Compile presentations of a thoroughness and quality suitable for senior level audiences, including executive and strategic.
What you'll bring:
- Demonstrate strong principles of financial analysis
- Ideal candidate is a strong team player, quality conscious, has excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills, and is highly self-motivated
- Work independently under limited supervision, exercise initiative within established procedural guidelines, and organize and prioritize work to meet established deadlines
- Work with sensitive information and maintain confidentiality of such data and information
- Apply company policies and standards
- Analyze information, reach conclusions and formulate such thoughts into written action plans
- Interface with individuals at all levels of the organization and to establish effective working relationships
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