The Financial Analyst will maintain accurate financial records and effective financial processes, systems, and controls to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures. The incumbent will prepare, review, and analyze United States and foreign financial and operational statements. This individual will analyze specific accounts, collaborate with financial statement users to educate, identify, and advance process improvement, and cost saving initiatives.

The incumbent will live the corporate values of treating people with dignity and respect, practicing leadership, driving continuous improvement, acting with a sense of urgency, promoting innovation, fighting for consensus, and managing through teams. 

Specific Responsibilities:
*Actively participate in the monthly financial close process, including ensuring all transactions and obligations are properly recorded.
*Evaluate source reports, advance allocation schedules, prepare journal entries, and review account level detail to ensure complete and accurate reporting.
*Prepare US and foreign financial statements and account level reconciliations.
*Assist management in analyzing and understanding operating results including actual costs and variances from historical trends, plan, and forecast, making specific recommendations that will drive continuous improvement, efficiency gains, cost reduction, profit improvement, and/or enhance internal controls.
*Participate in the ongoing development, establishment and documentation of accounting policies and procedures in keeping with GAAP and/or local statutory requirements.
*Proactively work with department managers to facilitate understanding of reported results and drive process improvement initiatives.
*Design and develop financial and operational models and reports.
*Actively participate in the implementation of a new forecasting and planning software, including recognizing and recommending areas of improvement and simplification.
*Support development of the annual budget and monthly/quarterly forecast, 3-year capital plan, and annual financial planning process.
*Assist with the annual and interim external audits.
*Perform other routine and ad hoc analysis as assigned.