What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at GEODIS?
Job Duties: -
- Creates and delivers monthly reports on financial performance, business development, and productivity improvements
- Develops appropriate metrics for the business to measure growth, profitability, expense control and productivity
- Analyzes monthly results, key drivers, issues and opportunities
- Delivers innovative, high value-added financial information to the management team for strategic decision making
- Supports key financial decisions using analytical approaches and modeling
- Prepares executive and board financial performance summaries, reports, and presentations
- Assists with the preparation of annual budgets and routine forecasts
- Develops increasingly efficient and impactful processes that support business financial needs (examples may include improved linkages between operational drivers and the financials, KPIs, bridging results, forecasting and budgeting efficiency)
- Completes ad hoc assignments as needed
Other duties as required and assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance from a four year college of university
- Minimum 2 years corporate finance or accounting experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- PC literate with experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel; experience with Hyperion Essbase preferred
- Ability to read and interpret financial documents and procedure manuals
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
- Ability to speak effectively before groups or employees of organization
- Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
Ability to travel up to 25%
Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The employee is regularly exposed to ambient lighting and temperate climate conditions.
The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Job Duties as documented in this job description are considered “Essential Functions” and have been created by the standards of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) require that employees be able to perform “Essential Functions” of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the “Essential Functions”.
