Senior Business & Planning Analyst

The American Psychological Association is a scientific and professional organization representing psychologists, students, and affiliates. The Senior Business & Planning Analyst provides financial tracking, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, royalty management, and business analysis support for APA Publishing, while presenting financial data and supporting technology projects for stakeholders and management.

Responsibilities:

• Assists in preparing a monthly financial package for APA Publishing management reporting in year-to-date revenue vs prior year and budget, as well as documenting key take-aways from the financial report
• Prepare department specific monthly financial reporting to various heads of departments; review and research all inaccuracies and adjust, as necessary
• Gather data from various systems and generate reports based on KPI’s to allow senior management to make strategic decisions
• Calculate, manage and distribute the books and journals royalties based on contractual agreements to authors and Journal Partners in a timely and efficient manner
• Assist in the forecasting of revenue and expenses semiannually for APA Publishing. Ensure that all data is provided back to Finance team and verify that all information is reflected accurately in Planful, a budgeting tool
• Assist with compiling the yearly budget for APA Publishing
• Manage new technology projects using the Agile framework, in support of APA Publishing. Creates business cases on new initiatives and obtains approvals from stakeholders. Works with the product owner and developers to advance the priorities of the PUBS team
• Prepare monthly financial reports for APA Books stakeholders, based on financials, inventory, eBook sales, and trend analysis
• Manage all processes related to contracts, including but not limited to overseeing the approval process and uploading them to the legal database
• Provides various ad hoc reporting as required, including but not limited to sales reports by product, by region, by country, etc. Works across Business and Planning departments to collect data from various sources, manipulate that data into a digestible format, and provide the reporting that was required to make strategic decisions
• Utilizes relevant and/or emerging technologies and practices to increase productivity, offer self-service, and optimize, streamline and templatize all Financial Management processes and deliverables
• Ad hoc financial report preparation, as assigned
• Special project duties, as assigned
• Back-up support for other BP staff, as assigned

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in data gathering/analysis budgeting/finance, and/or business analysis
• Strong organizational and communication skills are essential, as you will be tasked with regularly communicating financial results and financial variances/metrics to senior management and must be able to articulate the key business metrics/drivers
• Advanced Excel spreadsheet capabilities
• Intermediate PowerPoint skills
• 1-2 years of experience writing/modifying queries and generating reports out of Salesforce
• 1-2 years of experience in JIRA or other project management software
• Bachelor's degree preferred in business administration, accounting, finance
• Intermediate GL software skills with a package such as Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or Navigator preferred