Senior Financial Analyst, Los Angeles, CA

The senior financial analyst will provide support for the Advisors Network finance team in forecasting, strategic recruiting analysis, long-term business forecasting, and various ad-hoc projects.  The senior analyst will independently handle reporting and analytical projects and will utilize existing processes to facilitate accurate and efficient reporting of financial information.

Since the company is a spin off from *****, we want to have creative people that want to help grow this company with bold, fresh ideas.  We’ve got big equity backing, but get to act like a new kind of startup.  So please read on…

Responsibilities

• Assist the Financial Reporting Manager with various functions related to short and long-term forecasting and strategic recruiting analysis.
• Analyzes results of studies, reports, analyses.  Prepares complex reports/analyses to summarize current and projected financial information.  These may include balance sheets, income statements, annual/quarterly reports.
• Researches and prepares financial reports on subjects such as rate of return, depreciation, working capital requirements, investment opportunities, investment performance, and/or impact of governmental requirements.
• Conducts special studies to analyze complex financial actions.
• Work effectively as a team member by sharing technical expertise with others to facilitate the completion of a variety of projects within the business unit. Provides functional advice or training to less experienced financial analyst’s jobs.
• Apply knowledge of finance and accounting to perform financial analysis and reporting for a variety of assigned responsibilities, accurately and within the appropriate time constraints.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of Advisors Network business practices and products. Recommends process improvements.
• May assist in some ad–hoc accounting research and projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required, MBA or CPA preferred
• 5+ years of previous financial reporting and analysis, accounting or finance experience required.  A strong history of a forecasting and analysis preferred.
• Understanding of complex financial concepts (e.g. IRR and CBA).
• Knowledge and experience with the following applications preferred: PeopleSoft; Dynamics Great Plains General Ledger; PeopleSoft Query, Hyperion Essbase tool; and Microsoft Office suite.
• Must have the ability to design extensive financial modeling in Excel.
• Broker Dealer experience a plus.

That’s it – an interesting job description for a great opportunity.  And if this is the right job for you – please reach out and contact me as soon as possible.  Call JR Fent at 424.241.3368 or mail your resume to jrfent@i-hire.com .

The location for this position is El Segundo CA, in the Greater Los Angeles area (near LAX).