Position Overview:
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will play a crucial role in supporting the financial health and decision-making processes of the organization. Your primary responsibilities will revolve around financial forecasting, budgeting, analysis, and reporting, contributing to the overall strategic direction of the business. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to provide insightful financial insights and recommendations. Additionally, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with financial regulations and company policies while staying abreast of industry trends and best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Perform financial forecasting and budgeting to support business planning and decision-making processes
- Analyze financial data and create financial models for forecasting, trending, and results analysis
- Prepare financial reports and presentations for senior management and stakeholders
- Develop and maintain financial performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of business operations
- Compare anticipated and actual results and identify areas of improvement
- Develop forecasting tools to automate financial data analysis and establish financial policies
- Analyze payroll and compare to budget and forecast
- Identify and recommend strategies to improve financial performance and reduce costs
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives and projects
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and company policies
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior financial analysts
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in financial analysis and reporting
Qualifications:
- BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
- Proven work experience as a Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Analyst, or similar role
- Hands-on experience with financial and statistical software
- NetSuite and NSPB, Salesforce, Hyperion as plus
- Excellent analytical skills
- Expertise in MS Excel (creating spreadsheets and using advanced formulas)
- Ability to present financial data using detailed reports and charts
- Demonstrable strategic thinking skills
- Confidentiality in handling sensitive financial information
Company Overview:
Sparks is a live + digital brand experience agency. We specialize in creating connection–-real human connection–-onsite, online or anywhere. Through a mix of sound strategy, breakthrough creative and flawless execution, we create memorable trade show exhibits, live and virtual events, brand activations, retail stores, corporate environments and other immersive experiences that deepen relationships, inspire action, and build trust--and we do it all over the world.We operate an open and inclusive culture where all recognize, respect, appreciate and encourage individuality regardless of race, gender, age, religion, culture, ideology, economic status, disability or sexual orientation.
We believe that everyone at all levels of our organization is accountable for building this culture and we are challenging ourselves daily to seek and build diversity and equality in any way that we can–and we welcome your ideas to do so.Think you’ve got what it takes to hang with us?We’ve built our reputation on creating awesome experiences for our clients, but equally important is the experience we create for our people. Yes, we work hard. But we also make it a point to have fun. And we find our people work that much harder when work doesn’t feel so much like, well, work.
If you share our mindset, we should chat.We’ve always got our eyes peeled for smart, hungry people who think that what we do isn’t so much a job as it is a way of life. And while any company can supply stuff like benefits (and, of course we do too!) our greatest benefit comes from the amazing people you’ll interact with daily, who will challenge and push you to think harder, be more creative and love what you do.Sparks provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
