Senior Financial Analyst

Company Overview

Job Overview

Intuit’s Global Business Solutions Group (GBSG) Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial, and operational leadership within our QuickBooks and Mailchimp business segment. Our team is comprised of finance professionals who support and enhance Intuit's operating effectiveness, and we’re looking for a new Senior Financial Analyst to join the team and partner with organizations across the Global Business Solutions Group. We work in a highly collaborative environment providing financial partnership through planning, insights, and analysis across all functions – Marketing, Product, Customer Success, for example – while working closely with functional leaders and other finance and accounting team members. This role will be focused on expense forecasting and process improvement through partnering on FP&A activities across multiple groups within the GBSG Finance team.

Responsibilities

You are a financial analyst with strong analytical and modeling skills. You also have demonstrable experience of acting as a business partner, supporting and challenging non-finance stakeholders. As this role involves constant interaction with senior non-finance stakeholders across the business, you need the confidence and emotional intelligence to effectively communicate at all levels. The ideal candidate has worked in the tech industry and enjoys operating in an extremely fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Core responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Process improvement: Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement by streamlining, standardizing and automating processes and reporting requirements
• Financial reporting: Prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, variance explanation, etc) to enable transparency into the business’s performance and drivers. Liaise with the Accounting team and cross-functional business partners to ensure correct accounting treatment of transactional activities.
• Modeling: Create financial models to analyze complex business scenarios that drive and inform our go-to-market strategy (e.g. promotion, pricing, new sales channel opportunities, product portfolio)
• Strategic planning: Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team to develop and refine our 1- and 3-year strategic plans, proactively highlighting risks and opportunities related to business growth and drive optimal investment decisions through data-driven insights and business modeling expertise.
• Operational Excellence: Partner with, Marketing, Analytics and Finance teams to develop and monitor key performance indicators to drive insights and decision making to achieve our strategic and financial goals

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience within FP&A function or equivalent tenure from related positions in corporate finance, accounting or investment banking
• Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Excel to analyze complex business scenarios by building/improving financial models. Tableau and Hyperion EssBase experience preferred.
• Highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously manage several priorities, and challenge the status quo to lead change and operational improvements.
• Attention to details and ability to synthesize large volumes of data into insightful recommendations to the executive leadership team.
• Ability to influence all levels of leadership to drive actions, behaviors, decisions and business outcomes
• Ability to lead teams to deliver exceptional results and drive business growth
• Grace under pressure with a good sense of humor and dose of humility
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in presenting to business partners with confidence, conviction, and credibility
• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics preferred; equivalent experience will be considered