Lead Financial Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the lead financial opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for analytical and business partnering support for the Operating Units including financial statement analysis, gross margin analysis and business performance commentary.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Supports supervisors, training and quality assurance specialist in coaching team members while developing their knowledge/skillset
• Maintains documentation pertaining to quality and training standards
• Provides encouragement to team members, including communicating team goals and identifying areas for new training opportunities
• Communicates deadlines and goals to team members
• Generates and shares comprehensive and detailed reports about team performance, mission-related objectives, and deadlines
• Ensures company brand materials and physical working spaces meet and exceed company presentation standards
• Provides quality customer service, including interacting with students, answering inquiries, and effectively handling complaints
• Be a subject matter expert support team members on all questions

In response to your job posting for lead financial, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for support, guidance, and training to supporting senior and financial analysts on all cost initiatives, tools, metrics, and analysis provided to management.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience demonstrating proficiency of GAAP and STAT Accounting Standards
• Expert knowledge of relevant technical discipline
• Expert knowledge of relevant industry data sources
• Expert knowledge of data analysis
• Identify and drive solutions for a range of problems in complex situations across multiple business processes and across multiple Geographies
• Develop and configure solution options and assess each using standard procedures within multiple functional areas like finance, order management, deliver and planning for ERP (SAP) and supporting systems
• Respond to non-standard requests from internal and/or external customers and vendors
• Highly collaborate with others at all levels in the company as needed

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the lead financial position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for deep financial analysis and reporting for BP Direct initiatives including explanation of the results with business drivers to ensure cost and capex investments deliver the expected margin outcomes.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Excellent desktop skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Customer Focus • Financial Analysis
• Financial Reporting • Institutional Finance
• Performs research and studies
• Defines and develops key performance indicators
• Complex analytic based insights reflecting robust business acumen (larger, more complex components of plan, ops review, etc)
• Accurate forecasts with risks/opportunity assessment for individual responsibility area w/ high level of complexity
• Highly complex analytics that are framed in a thoughtful and simple manner that aligns to the key drivers of the analysis

In response to your job posting for lead financial, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for fundamental business profitability analysis to management encompassing cost analysis, project analysis and analysis of the financial impacts of various business strategies.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Exposure to IT finance
• Knowledge of Hyperion/Essbase (highly preferred)
• Experience with operational side of finance
• Demonstrate expertise in financial concepts and analytical capabilities in the preparation of financial analyses and models with attention to detail
• Demonstrated relationship management, project management and leadership skills
• Demonstrable knowledge of accounting principles and their application
• Modeling and scenario analysis experience preferred
• Experience in a finance or accounting role in a plant environment

Please consider me for the lead financial opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for support and analysis for the Raleigh Area Plants accounting teams in addition to the headquarters ledger, analyzing operational and financial data, investigating variances, identifying business drivers, and evaluating their impact on planned objectives.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Support the support teams with high priority incidents during key business milestones
• An understanding of cost accounting, cost policy, and enterprise finance systems
• Manages new system implementations
• Business analytic system audits as needed.*
• Demonstrates analytical skills, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making abilities effective communication skills.*
• Accurately collects and analyzes data in a timely manner.*
• Utilizes knowledge and experience to discover and address financial issues or problems.*
• Develops efficient methods of analysis and problem solving.*