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Sr Financial Analyst
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Orlando, FL, United States
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HMH is looking for an experienced finance professional to join the Decision Support team within Corporate FP&A, supporting the Financial Business Partner for the Global Education Sales Executive and his team. This position will report directly to the Vice President, Decision Support – FP&A for Global Education Sales and will provide critical support to executive, functional and product line financial leaders across the HMH organization.
This position will be held accountable to plan, track and provide analytical support associated with any or all of the following financial areas:
• Revenue, cost and/or direct expense
• Fixed and variable labor expense
• Operating expense
Supporting these areas will require the candidate who fills this role to maintain a holistic HMH focus while meeting the needs of the Sales Executive business partner. This position requires a minimum of 5 years progressive financial/accounting experience which includes the following:
• Gathering and analyzing historical business, industry and financial data
• Building and maintaining organizational hierarchies
• Interpreting and analyzing economic trends, business cases, industry metrics and financial ratios
• Supporting the build of corporate and divisional reports (monthly, quarterly and annual)
• Analyzing economic indicators such as inflation, interest rates and exchange rates to build financial models
• Interpreting and reporting financial and/or non-financial key performance indicators
• Developing, maintaining and leveraging relationships with internal business partners to expand influence to achieve key objectives
• Building tools to gather/manage business information for financial budgeting and forecasting
• Interpreting and applying financial accounting concepts, principles and practices
• Building, interpreting and relating common financial statements
• Supporting the financial close process, including financial reporting activities and variance analysis
• Developing project plans and leading others to meet deadlines on time
• Preparing and communicating financial and/or operational presentations using charts/graphs, etc.
• Validating financial models for consistency, reasonableness and accuracy
• Developing financial business assumptions and creating methods to measure performance against them
• Interpreting financial ratios and performing rate, mix and volume variance analysis
• Supporting financial statement, capital, sales volume, revenue, cash flow and staffing projections
• Performing “what-if” analysis
In addition to the financial experience requirements above, this position also has the following requirements:
• Ability to summarize large and complex datasets using advanced Microsoft Excel functions (MS Access a plus)
• Experience using financial data consolidation tools such as BPC, Hyperion or other proprietary tools
• Experience using ERP systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle or other proprietary tools
• Minimum of 2-3 years serving within a Financial Planning and Analysis group
• 4-year degree with a concentration in finance, accounting and/or economics
Experience and/or background are preferred (not required) from the following:
• Experience specific to SAP, BW and/or BPC
• Experience specific to Concur expense reporting
• Experience using Microstrategy
• Experience using systems like Salesforce.com for translating sales pipelines into financial forecasts
• MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA
• Ability to read and write VBA/SQL (a plus)
• Experience developing and maintaining Predictive Models
• Multi-divisional revenue planning/reporting
• High-level sales pipeline analysis
• High-level quarter/annual forecasting/modeling experience for both revenue and operating expense
• Experience in Education companies is a plus
• Process improvement (certification a plus)
• Experience translating order flow through to billings and net sales
• Experience creating and presenting executive-level information summaries
• Budget and forecast analysis
• FTE and casual labor financial reporting, forecasting and management
• Interface to Business Intelligence team for data acquisition and development/maintenance of key periodic reports
• Ability to achieve goals via influencing people/processes
Physical Requirements
• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings.
ABOUT US:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.
PLEASE NOTE:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.