Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Albert Uster Imports, Inc. is a gourmet food company headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, offering a wide range of products to various sectors including hotels and restaurants. The Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst will collaborate with operations and finance teams to provide financial insights, support reporting processes, and drive strategic decision-making within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the month end close reporting process through partnership with accounting team in understanding key variances vs budget, forecast and prior year and developing internal and external month end reports and presentations
• Assist with preparation of high-quality financial reports, presentations, and dashboards for Executive Leadership team, delivered in a timely manner with meaningful analysis, to enable discussion on key financial matters
• Distill abstract business questions into clearly defined, data-backed analysis with action-oriented responses. Be a problem-solver in all areas, constantly focusing on process improvement, operational refinement, and financial excellence. Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports with focus on supporting the ops teams
• Provide logistics and supply chain teams with reporting and resources to drive expense reduction and optimization by helping to identify areas of focus and drivers for unexpected variances. Assist in structuring data to obtain quality insights and analytics, measure KPIs, and position the ops teams for optimal results

Skills

• 1-3 years of experience in FP&A, Accounting and/or Corporate Finance
• Strong knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Critical thinker and self-starter who embraces change and can lead innovation in financial reporting and modeling
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong communicator and great teammate
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Experience with business intelligence tools preferred (e.g. SQL PowerBI)
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work well under tight deadlines
• Good understanding of accounting principles and applications

Benefits

• This role is bonus eligible.

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