Role Summary

Under supervision and direction of Controller, the Junior Analyst will perform reporting, revenue analysis, cost control, variance analysis, budgeting, invoice audits, and KPI reporting for the GHRR entities. Collecting, monitoring and creating financial models for supporting strategy and decision making for departments such as operations, customer success, and sales. Assist in developing recurring, reportable functional metrics for the different departments in the organization (sales, operations, customer service) that are linked into the budget assumptions and are measurable against a target/budget.

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Primary Areas of Accountability

§  Assist with annual and quarterly forecasting.

• Identify financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Guide cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts;
• Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses;
• Increases productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools.
• Market research, data mining, business intelligence, and valuation comps
• Assist in defining and implementing operating metric for the different departments like Sales and Operations, that are directly tied and linked in to the budget

Reporting Relationships

§  Reporting directly to Controller of the company

§  Strong interaction with Shared Service functions (AP, AR), Operations, Customer Service and Sales

Critical Success Factors

                Technical:

§  Strong analytical and reporting skills to work independently on business analysis

§  Strong advanced excel skills on reporting requirements and modelling

§  Strong communication skills to report on variances and action plans

§  Ability to provide very high-quality financial information to Management Team based on monthly reporting

§  Ability to develop / streamline accounting processes by modelling templates to reduce the closing cycle

Organizational:

§  Develop and Implement new reporting tools, models and analysis that enhance the visibility and insight in the main Gross Profit and EBITDA Drivers (revenue, direct costs, opex)

§  Leverage multiple critical resources across the organization (such as Operations Manager, Sales Manager and Customer Support Manager) in order to develop and implement functional metrics across the organization

§  Support day-to-day requirements while being a key resource to the Management Team to continue to improve the organization and foundation for growth

Experience Required

§  3-5 years in financial analysis

§  Demonstrated ability to maintain reporting packages / variance analysis reports

§  Demonstrated ability (re)produce key functional metrics across the organization

§  Demonstrated experience working in a diverse, cross-functional environment where critical resources are covering multiple priority areas

§  Minimum education – 4-year Bachelor’s degree in accounting

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Experience Preferred

§  Background screening industry or other large volume/data driven organizations

§  Experience in an environment with salaried and hourly employees