Senior Financial Analyst

Company: Acxiom
Location: Bronx
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

Acxiom is seeking a new Senior Financial Analyst for our FP&A team.

**RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS ROLE INCLUDE:**

- Supporting FP&A Senior Manager and Head of FP&A in Corporate FP&A reporting role, including consolidation of company-wide global forecasts, financial reports to Executive team, and forecast submissions to holding company.

- Developing, interpreting, and implementing financial concepts for financial planning and control.
- Performing technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.
- Gathering, analyzing, preparing, and summarizing recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, trended future requirements and operating forecasts.

**YOUR DAY TO DAY:**

- Participate in the monthly review of the updated global forecast with Senior Managers, Head of FP&A, and CFO. Own updates to topside revenue and expense adjustments.

- Own monthly investment initiative tracking (expense only).
- Build, validate, and share monthly forecast reporting Excel workbook and PowerPoint deck that is provided to Executive team.
- Collaborate with FP&A Senior Manager to provide consolidated QTD P&L numbers and variance commentary to Kinesso Corporate monthly.
- For quarterly submission to holding company, upload forecasts from Adaptive Insights (Acxiom financial reporting system) to Hyperion (IPG financial reporting system) at a general ledger account level and at the client level (revenue only).
- For quarterly submissions to holding company, update template workbook that requires various different views of Acxioms business such as revenue for top clients, revenue by region, etc.
- Other ad hoc requests that pertain to Corporate FP&A reporting, such as support of international FP&A teams on matters such as ForEx implications, process improvement by way of automation and better processes.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED:**

- Minimum of 3 years of related experience

- Demonstrates expertise in use of all key tools
- Ability to derive insights and handle ambiguity or problems where limited data is available
- Ability to develop clear models to represent complex financial situations
- Ability to incorporate deep understanding of technical financial and accounting concepts into analysis

**WHAT WILL SET YOU APART:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA or CPA preferred

- Detailed knowledge of FP&A
- GAAP accounting experience
- Experience with Workdays accounting ledger & Adaptive Insights forecasting tool
- Experience with Hyperion Financial Reporting, Hyperion EPM Workfpace, and Hyperion SmartView
- Understanding of business intelligence software such as Tableau and PowerBI
- Familiarity with and/or willingness to learn robotic process automation via products such as UiPath and Automation Anywhere.

Acxiom is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics or other protected status.

Keywords: Acxiom, New Rochelle , Senior Financial Analyst, Accounting, Auditing , Bronx, New York