Financial Analyst – Transformation Office
Vonage
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Forge cross-functional partnerships and gain stakeholder buy-in to get the work done
- Prepare initiative business cases for review and approval
- Facilitate decision-making and collaborate with the appropriate parties to mitigate risks and issues and make recommendations for final approval of the initiatives at each stage gate
- Track, validate and provide stakeholder reporting on the financial impact of the Transformation
- Work with Initiative Owners and Finance teams across the business to ensure a consistent approach to valuation of initiative impact (including validating all initiative business cases)
- Perform financial tracking of progress against commitments (both value delivery and timing)
- Assist the Transformation Office in resolving resource allocation, project management, financial and risk issues
- Support CFO in integration of Transformation commitments with quarterly forecasts and annual budgets
- Highlight developing financial trends which could hinder or accelerate the financial impact of the Transformation
- Performs trend analyses to forecast future monthly impacts and compare against monthly financial goals
- Anticipate and recommend solutions for financial issues that arise
- Works side-by-side on a daily basis with key Transformation stakeholders across the business drive the Transformation
- Ad hoc sessions and training with Workstream Leads and Initiative Owners regarding initiative valuation approach as necessary
- Drives financial impact ownership and accountability of initiatives to operational owners
- Validates financial impacts by utilizing trackable and reportable data
- Automate impact validation process to make inputability, trackability, and measurability easier for the Finance Lead and Owner
- Ability to work independently and solution ambiguous problems
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study: (Finance, Accounting, Economics) or (Management/Business Administration/Communications)
- Experience with business analysis, and financial modeling, understanding of financial statements and project management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, v-lookups, etc)
- Working knowledge of GAAP accounting and financial principles
- Project management/strategic planning experience - ability to manage several projects/people simultaneously
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently without close supervision
- Possess enhanced organizational, leadership, management and multi-tasking skills
- Proven ability to multitask, work under pressure, and meet tight deadlines
- Great learning skills and curiosity
- Enjoy investigating issues, finding simplicity, and identifying innovative solutions.
- Experience using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, data visualization shows and Smartsheet is a plus
Benefits
- There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team.
- Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
financial modelingbusiness analysisproject managementGAAP accountingfinancial statementstrend analysisfinancial trackinginitiative valuationdata validationimpact automation
Soft skills
communicationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solvingmultitaskingindependencecuriositypressure managementstakeholder collaborationdecision-making
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in FinanceBachelor's Degree in AccountingBachelor's Degree in EconomicsBachelor's Degree in ManagementBachelor's Degree in Business AdministrationBachelor's Degree in Communications