What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Financial Analyst position at Intuit?
The Mailchimp Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team at Intuit is responsible for financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Mailchimp FP&A plays a unique and critical role in driving business decisions and optimizing financial outcomes.
This Lead Financial Analyst will join the team responsible for the overall revenue forecast. In addition, the Lead Financial Analyst will work on projects to develop strategic data driven insights and partner with key senior leaders to execute our vision.
The ideal candidate will be an inquisitive self-starter, with a deep understanding of financial theory, proven business acumen, strong analytical and modeling skills and hands-on FP&A experience.
Responsibilities
- Financial reporting: Thoughtfully prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, variance explanations, etc.) to enable transparency into the business’s performance and key drivers. Effective framing and presentation skills on specific analytics/projects.
- Support strategic planning: Drive optimal investment decisions through data-driven insights and business modeling expertise. Be a trusted advisor, providing analytics to leadership to develop and refine our 1- and 3-year strategic plans, proactively highlighting risks and opportunities related to business growth.
- Operational Excellence: Partner with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to develop and monitor key performance indicators to drive insights and decision making in order to achieve our strategic and financial goals
- Modeling: Create financial models to analyze complex business scenarios that drive and inform our go-to-market strategy (e.g. promotion, pricing, new sales channel opportunities, product portfolio) to accelerate our growth trajectory. Summarize analysis at a higher level in a simple/digestible manner.
- Process improvement: Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement by streamlining, standardizing and automating processes and reporting requirements
Qualifications:
- 6 years within FP&A function or equivalent tenure from related positions in corporate finance within the banking/financial services or tech industries.
- Advanced skils in Microsoft Excel to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models. Basic knowledge of SQL, Tableau and Hyperion experience preferred.
- Ability to simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.
- Attention to detail and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to the executive leadership team.
- Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions and business outcomes, including leading teams to deliver exceptional results
- Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners to successfully influence decisions
- BS/BA in Finance or Accounting or equivalent work experience. MBA/CFA/CPA a plus.
