Financial Analyst

Job Number: 11861

External Description:

Key Responsibilities

 Month-End Close & Accounting Operations

• Perform core month-end close activities, including trial balance reviews, final sales calculations, SG&A analysis, accruals, reclassifications, account reconciliations, and journal entry preparation.
• Partner with Accounting and Finance teams to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial results.

Shipment, Demand & Backlog Coverage

• Support commercial forecasting through detailed analysis of shipment performance, backlog coverage, and order activity.
• Participate in weekly cross-functional demand calls to understand market conditions and operational execution.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reporting on backlog performance, new orders, and variance to forecast.

Management Reporting & Profitability Analysis

• Develop and distribute management reporting packages and key performance metrics for business and finance leadership.

Prepare Gross Margin reporting and customer profitability analysis.

• Manage functional cost reporting and provide detailed expense analysis to departmental leaders.
• Support financial consolidation and reporting activities utilizing corporate financial systems and reporting tools.

Organizational Partnership & Process Improvement

• Collaborate with Sales Operations, Accounting, Finance, and other business functions to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and reporting support for business initiatives and leadership requests.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, enhance data quality, and increase reporting efficiency through automation and standardization.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of experience in Financial Analysis, Accounting
• 2 + years of experience in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP functions.

Preferred Requirements

• Prior experience supporting month-end close, financial reporting, variance analysis, and forecasting processes.
• Strong analytical, detail-oriented, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with financial reporting and ERP systems (e.g., HFM, JD Edwards).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced month-end close environment.

Job Number: 30219908

Community / Marketing Title: Financial Analyst

Location_formattedLocationLong: Georgia, US