Financial Analyst
Company | Airgas |
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Location | Villanova, PA, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s |
Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Possess exceptionally strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of how to leverage data and computer tools to enhance divisional efficiency and effectiveness.
- You should be team-oriented with a drive for continuous improvement.
- This role demands exceptional critical thinking, empowering you to question assumptions, validate data, spot patterns and anomalies, pinpoint root causes, and ultimately deliver sound recommendations.
- Work autonomously, using sound judgment to tackle both routine and complex challenges, but knowing when to seek help, review or validation.
- Ability to effectively communicate financial information and conclusions to various stakeholders, including management, the Hub, and the Group.
- Adept at managing multiple priorities, meeting critical deadlines, and working independently to resolve issues.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships across all organizational levels.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace (e.g., Excel, Sheets, Docs, Slides, Gmail), SAP products (BPC/Business Warehouse/Analysis for Office etc.), Power BI, knowledge of other data warehouse products.
Responsibilities
- Developing and managing financial reports: Creating new analyses and maintaining existing ones utilizing SAP BPC/Business Warehouse/Analysis for Office, as well as other systems.
- Drive reporting excellence: Create and maintain impactful reports in Power BI to analyze and present financial and operating metrics, ensuring they’re accurate, repeatable, and efficient.
- Influence decision-making: Provide essential analysis of product line sales, gross margins, operating expenses, capital expenditures, and forecasts, directly supporting strategic and operational choices.
- Build financial foresight: Utilize various business reports and metrics to evaluate, interpret, and provide critical information that supports strategic and operating decisions. Develop financial models that inform both divisional and corporate planning.
- Shape future financial plans: Play a key role in the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting cycles.
- Be a trusted partner: Collaborate closely with the Finance Director and field managers to understand historical financial results and trends, validate forecast assumptions, and support Power BI reporting requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance with a strong emphasis on quantitative/analytical coursework, coupled with relevant work experience; MBA and/or CPA a plus.
- Alternatively, a technical degree (e.g., engineering, mathematics) with a secondary concentration in business/finance or related work experience will also be considered.
- 3+ years of relevant finance experience and/or operational analysis positions with increasing responsibilities.
- Experience with SAP, BW, BPC, and Power BI Preferred.