Finance & Strategy - Financial Analyst

Salesforce · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

The Finance & Strategy (F&S) team serves as a trusted advisor to the business, guiding decision-making through strong business partnership and insightful, innovative analysis. We are seeking forward-thinking, results-oriented individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment and can improve processes to help the company scale with growth.

F&S Analyst

We are looking for forward-thinking, goal-oriented individuals that will succeed in a fast-paced environment and thrive in building and improving processes that will allow the company to scale with growth. This role primary responsibilities will be in expense and headcount management, month-end/quarter-end management reporting with stakeholders globally, partnering across F&S, Finance Data Office, and Controllership.

Responsibilities:

  • Build, maintain and update financial models to support key business decisions
  • Assist in preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting
  • Conduct variance analysis for month-end and quarter-end financial close.
  • Analyse historical and current financial data for trends, run-rates, opportunities and risks
  • Collaborate with other stakeholders to gather data for insights and accuracy
  • Support monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting process by working across stakeholders.
  • Identify and recommend opportunities to improve existing financial processes, reporting and data collection methods.
  • Leverage across software, platforms and tools to simplify and automate current reporting and tasks.
  • Document financial procedures and best practices to ensure consistency and knowledge transfer.

Technical Skills:

  • University Degree in Finance, or relevant disciplines.
  • At least 1-2 years of post-qualification experience in an FP&A, Finance & Strategy, Accounting function of a multinational entity.
  • Strong skills in MS Excel, Hyperion, Smartview and Google Suite. Experience with SQL and snowflake a plus.
  • Data extraction, analysis and presentation; Tableau or other data visualization a plus.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Track record of successful and quantifiable process improvement projects.

Non-Technical Skills:

  • Thrives in an environment of collaboration/teamwork but is also a self-starter, requiring limited guidance
  • Get it Done attitude
  • Ability to deal with a fast moving dynamic environment with high degree of ambiguity
  • Ability to establish and manage stakeholder relationships
  • Clear, concise and professional communications – written & verbal; interpersonal skills
  • Emotional Intelligence, empathetic mindset and humility to create space for learning
  • Sharp attention to details
  • Strong desire to process improve and drive efficiencies
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