Financial Analyst, Financial Systems

Overview

This role supports budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, and financial analysis processes. In addition to strong FP&A analysis, the position serves as a functional administrator and subject-matter resource for the organization’s FP&A platform, translating business needs into accurate, scalable, and sustainable planning and reporting solutions. Partners include Finance, Accounting, operational leadership, IT, and external support resources.

Responsibilities

• Support forecasts, annual budgets, long-range plans, and related workflow management and analytics through the Prophix platform.
• Serve as a functional administrator and subject-matter resource for Prophix, including maintenance of:
  • models
  • dimensions and hierarchies
  • business rules
  • workflows
  • user security
  • reports and dashboards
  • data mappings
• Partner with FP&A team members, Accounting, operational leaders, and IT to understand business requirements and translate them into effective, scalable system solutions.
• Evaluate the structure and performance of existing planning models and recommend improvements to increase:
  • accuracy
  • usability
  • process efficiency
  • analytical value
• Support and manage forecasting and budgeting calendars, submissions, reviews, consolidations, and reporting to facilitate accurate development of:
  • revenue
  • direct costs
  • operating expenses
  • gross margin
  • operating income
• Develop reporting and analysis explaining forecast and budget results, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and expected impact on full-year financial goals.
• Support alignment of long-range strategy with annual operating plans and financial budgets for the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
• Maintain and validate data integrations between Prophix and source systems, including the ERP, general ledger, project accounting, payroll, and other business systems.
• Reconcile system outputs to source data and establish validation controls to promote completeness, consistency, and accuracy across planning and reporting processes.
• Troubleshoot data, calculation, reporting, workflow, security, and integration issues; coordinate resolution with internal stakeholders and external software support resources.
• Assess proposed system changes for financial, operational, and downstream reporting impacts before implementation.
• Develop test plans, perform system and user acceptance testing, document results, and validate changes before deployment.
• Maintain system documentation, including model structures, business rules, data mappings, security access, workflows, procedures, and change history.
• Support system governance and change-control practices to protect data integrity and maintain a stable planning and reporting environment.
• Train and support users on budgeting, forecasting, workflow, reporting, and other Prophix processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and expand use of the FP&A platform to support evolving business needs.
• Communicate regularly with internal stakeholders regarding financial performance, planning activities, system enhancements, and project status.
• Provide support on ad hoc financial analysis, reporting, and system projects as required.
• Conduct business in accordance with organizational policies and procedures and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, information systems, business analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum of five years of experience in corporate finance, FP&A, financial systems, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of three years of hands-on experience configuring, administering, or supporting an enterprise FP&A or performance management platform.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, data analysis, and reconciliation of large datasets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience participating in an FP&A system implementation, redesign, enhancement, or major model-development initiative.
• Experience supporting FP&A within a federal government contracting environment.
• Experience with Deltek Costpoint, including financial and project-accounting data structures.
• Hands-on experience administering, configuring, or supporting an enterprise FP&A or performance management platform such as Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM, or Planful (Prophix experience strongly preferred).

Physical Activities & Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc.
• Requires repetitive motion associated with heavy computer use.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive pay, benefits, and perks.
• Flexible work-life balance.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Performance and recognition programs.
• Comprehensive benefits package including:
  • medical, dental, vision
  • life and disability
  • voluntary benefit programs (critical illness, hospital, and accident)
  • health savings and flexible spending accounts
  • retirement 401K plan
• Full-time employees working at least 30 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in benefits and paid leave programs.

Location

Not specified.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The employer provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information and/or predisposing genetic characteristics, victim of domestic violence status, veteran status, or other protected class status. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. The employer prohibits retaliation against any employee who exercises rights under applicable anti-discrimination laws. The employer provides hiring preference to Seneca or Native individuals, and veterans with expertise in these areas are highly encouraged to apply.