Strategic Finance Analyst

Key Responsibilities: Complete complex financial modeling development, improvement, and maintenance. Execute accrual and reclassification processes, validate expense inputs and supporting documentation, and reconcile records to support an accurate and timely financial close. Support headcount forecasting and position management by maintaining planning inputs, tracking hiring, attrition and internal movements, and reconciling workforce data with finance partners. Analyze headcount and expense variances, identify discrepancies, and support forecast updates and financial planning consolidations. Process finance master data requests in Oracle EDM through standardized intake, completeness and accuracy checks, approved execution, verification, and confirmation to the requester; maintain a record of every change. Support validation and downstream-impact assessment for new departments, department name changes, and department hierarchy changes. Support maintenance of additional finance master data within assigned permissions, including product codes, legal entities, GL accounts, source members, etc. Audit and reconcile financial models, accrual records, headcount inputs and master data to identify and resolve accuracy issues. Partner with Strategic Finance, Accounting and system stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies and assess the impact of master data changes on planning and reporting. Establish and document repeatable processes, validation checks and controls for accruals, headcount forecasting and EDM execution. Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting on financial results, headcount forecasts and master data request status. Provide strategic and ad hoc analysis to support key business decisions and evolving priorities. Ensure reporting systems and source data are accurate and reconciled, with consistent cost center, department and ownership mappings.

Basic Qualifications: BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.4+ years of financial analysis experience. Advanced Excel modeling skills. Hands-on experience with accruals, headcount forecasting or finance master data management, including data validation and reconciliation. Experience working with financial planning, accounting or enterprise master data systems.