Financial Analyst

Role Overview

• Provides complex, financial analysis for a financial function or a business
• Establishes and maintains relationships with business leaders to guide and influence decision-making
• Provides analytics to business initiatives, typically representing a sub-function within finance for a particular business
• Supports policy and process improvement and identifies opportunities
• Identifies issues and proposes solutions
• Represents finance on cross-functional teams
• Provides mentoring and guidance to analysts
• Apply in-depth knowledge of finance organizational structures, supply chain models, operating models, and processes to analyse, assess and improve the BU’s finance functions and drive bottom line impact
• Leverage understanding of HP Inc manufacturing, procurement, and sales models to identify potential risk and mitigation
• Build analytical or statistical modelling to zero in opportunities to unearth process failures and financial leakages
• Align recovery and team objectives with the company’s goals
• Forecasts, manages, and reports on project financials, planned vs actual project schedule, and resource utilization
• Provides weekly status reports to communicate with senior leadership
• Develop strategic reports to provide predicative analytics that allow our leaders to augment business decisions
• Visualizing and implementing Robotic Process Automation, based on process reviews, to increase efficiency, drive cost saving and create an enhanced control environment
• Define and deploy end-to-end automation solutions that improve the BU’s ability to optimize reporting strategies and processes
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and proactively identify opportunities for process enhancements and cost reduction
• Build analytical hypothesis catering to specific HP business models and processes
• Conceptualizing cost reduction initiatives, deploying spend analytics, contract analytics, category profiling and opportunity identification, cost modelling & financial analysis, risk analysis and supplier performance assessment
• Program manages new initiatives from identification, building proof of concept, creating business cases, obtaining relevant stakeholder buy-ins, deployment of analytics and managing operations to deliver profitable engagements
• Lead/participate in complex negotiations with suppliers/partners to recoup identified lost profits

Requirements

• First level university degree with a focus in business or economics recommended or equivalent experience
• Typically, 4 + years of experience as a financial analyst
• Typically experienced in more than one finance function
• 2-3 years of experience in Print business or related field
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial analysis
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong business application skills (e.g., Microsoft Excel)

Tech Stack

• RPA

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave