Financial Analyst

Job Summary

In this newly created role, the Supply Chain Financial Analyst will partner with Cirrus’ supply chain leaders on key strategic projects. This position will provide analytical support to Cirrus’ supply chain by working with supply chain leadership to identify Key Performance Indicators, leveraging and improving upon existing metrics, and identifying business trends through related measurement and analysis. This position will also analyze historical spending trends, evaluate different scenarios and help the business team understand potential trade-offs. Being a new role to the organization, this position is rife with opportunity to make an impact both at a direct financial level and indirectly through the influencing of processes and policy.

Duties and Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Acts as lead business partner to Supply Chain leadership providing financial outlook and performance, actively participating in cross-functional meetings, and presenting relevant reporting and documents to all levels of management
• Participating in preparation of annual financials budgets and updated financial projections as needed to track performance and outlook of projects
• Prepares actual to budget/forecast variance analysis including identification of headcount, operating, outsourcing and expense savings opportunities, and provides actionable recommendations to Supply Chain leadership as well as identification of potential risks, meanwhile encouraging accountability for achieving forecasted/plan results

• Engages in monthly supply chain reviews, providing financial insights to key drivers of change and ensuring results are well understood by decision makers
• Collaborates with supply chain to make recommendations for scalable business solutions related to supply planning, budgeting, and procurement
• Acts as liaison between business team and accounting department ensuring transactions are appropriately accounted for in the financials
• Performs ad hoc financial analysis as requested
• Creates, maintains, and validates reporting tools for supply chain analysis
• Working on multiple projects at a time, this role will focus on the details while simultaneously working to take on high level/big picture challenges

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in financial analysis
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Strong attention to detail
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, accounting principles knowledge, documentation skills, research and resolution skills, data analysis and multi-tasking skills

• Ability to prepare comprehensive financial forecasts and appropriately represent financial information
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work in a cross-functional fast-paced environment and to drive operational initiatives
• Aptitude to take charge, set objectives, and lead by influence and drive results

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Financial Acumen: Interprets and applies understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.

• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or
responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change
at any time with or without notice. Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required.

Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion,
pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic
information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Position will be filed commensurate with experience.

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