Company: Cognex Corporation
Location: Noida
Job Description:
Senior Financial Analyst
Job Description
The Role:
Cognex is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join the growing FP&A team. This position provides insightful, trustworthy data that helps senior management make strategic and tactical decisions for our company.
Essential Functions:
- Partner with functional leaders to prepare the annual budget and quarterly expense forecasts for global departments.
- Analyze month end department expense results for the global departments and prepare appropriate journal entries to ensure expenses are recorded properly.
- Provide objective analytical support to influence and reinforce expense decisions.
- Provide monthly deviation analysis to explain bookings, revenue, and margin variances.
- Prepare month end variance explanations for the Management Financial Package and Responsibility P&Ls.
- Monitor and provide insightful analysis around business key performance indicators (KPI).
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve existing processes and procedures to support the team.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis as needed.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong qualitative and quantitative skills, with demonstrated experience using data to drive decision making.
- Prior experience working with tight deadlines and demonstrated responsibility for accuracy and timeliness for work performed.
- A team player with the ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally.
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Must be able to convey information to all levels of the organization in a clear, focused, and concise manner.
- Excellent Microsoft Excel experience required; SAC & SAP experience is a plus.
- Process improvement focus.
Minimum education and work experience required:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or Analytical Field
- 5+ years of financial planning and analysis preferred
- Experience supporting global expense planning preferred
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Posted: June 19th, 2024