Financial Planning & Analysis - Manager
About Company:
At SpringML, we are all about empowering the 'doers' in companies to make smarter decisions with their data. Our predictive analytics products and solutions apply machine learning to today's most pressing business problems so customers get insights they can trust to drive business growth. We are a tight-knit, friendly team of passionate and driven people who are dedicated to learning, get excited to solve tough problems and like seeing results, fast. Our core values include placing our customers first, empathy and transparency, and innovation. We are a team with a focus on individual responsibility, rapid personal growth, and execution. If you share similar traits, we want you on our team.
Role: Financial Planning and Analysis - Manager
- Assist in the Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Process
- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Escalating any financial performance issues to the management
- Monthly Customer and Project Profitability review with Account and Business teams
- Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
- Work on corporate projects and initiatives that impact the entire organization.
- Forecasting Revenue for current and future periods
- Partner with Business teams on Revenue forecasting (estimated time to complete projects)
- Billing and Invoicing
- Matching collections and Maintaining AR schedules
- Co-ordinating with Account teams on Collections
Responsibilities:
- Provide FP&A finance support to the accounting teams related to productivity, demand planning, reporting, and metrics in a timely manner.
- Identify and understand business challenges; propose and create solutions.
- Partner directly with the finance team and central FP&A groups to collaborate on metrics, goals, and business reviews.
- Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights.
- Work on corporate projects and initiatives that impact the entire organization.
- Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made.
- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross functional teams at all levels of the organization.
- Serve as a liaison for the investor relations team, managing the earnings guidance scenario modeling, including executive presentation, Q&A support, and ad hoc analysis.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree and more than seven years of experience in finance or accounting or a related area,
- General knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles.
- Experience developing financial reports and metrics.
- Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment.
- Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
- Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.
- Demonstrated ability to influence others through effective verbal and written communication.
- Demonstrated ability to drive projects across an organization