Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst III

Note: Work location is on-site with the flexibility to work remotely. The primary location will be in-office for meetings. Residency is required in the primary location state: 9 Piedmont Center, 3495 Piedmont Rd., NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30305.

Job Summary:

This individual contributor is primarily responsible for supporting financial planning, modeling, analysis, and forecasting. This includes identifying and preparing reports on financial and budgeting trends, assisting in the analysis of operational performance, and gathering and preparing recommendations on financial activities and plans.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Pursues self-development and effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers. Influences others through technical explanations and examples, providing occasional mentoring to team members, and listening and responding to performance feedback.
• Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions. Ensures all procedures and policies are followed, leveraging an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives.
• Supports the evaluation of the business environment by conducting financial assessments and generating reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data.
• Completes costing activities by identifying cost avoidance and cost recovery opportunities.
• Supports improving financial performance by identifying financial trends and calling attention to operational issues that need to be addressed to improve performance.
• Supports business modeling by developing best-practice models and analyzing risk alternatives.
• Supports reporting of region/business unit financial information by evaluating financial trends and data analysis reports.
• Supports assessment of the business vision, objectives, and strategic initiatives by conducting research to assess financial impact of strategies and initiatives.
• Creates budgets and/or forecasts under the guidance of others by analyzing budgeting trends and preparing budget and forecasting.
• Evaluates performance/operations/financial state by using and implementing templates and conducting complex financial analyses.
• Supports internal and external audits by assisting with preparation of audit schedules and review of audit results.
• Supports field operations by analyzing their operational/financial performance.
• Supports Financial Statement Analysis of business partners by using software systems and determining the financial status of business partners.
• Supports others in advising region/business unit leaders on strategic fiscal matters by preparing regular and special reports for financial and statistical matters.
• Supports strategic financial planning by performing and evaluating financial, utilization, and benchmark analytics.
• Supports strategic financial planning by gathering and preparing recommendations for financial plans and operating forecasts.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or related field and a minimum of three (3) years of Financial Planning & Analysis experience, or directly related business experience. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• One (1) year of project management experience.
• Two (2) years of experience working with advanced functions of spreadsheet software, including graphics, pivot tables, macros, and/or complex formulas.
• Two (2) years of experience working with intermediate SQL and/or SAS coding.