About Lumen
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The Role
As a Lumen Sr Finance Analyst, you will provide financial analysis and reporting support to various teams. This includes but is not limited to preparing periodic financial reports, budgets and forecasts as well as evaluating project business cases and the underlying assumptions of those cases. The role works with varying levels of management on other requests as necessary and with various teams to validate data integrity from multiple sources to provide insight and provide recommendations.
Location
This role has been fully designated as remote, US.
The Main Responsibilities
- Interpret financial data to find trends of the overall Business Unit financial performance
- Anticipate process obstacles and decide next steps
- Utilize multiple systems to bring data together and provide analysis on operational activities
- Detailed knowledge of business they support and how their role impacts the Business Unit
- Provide professional advice, guidance and service to internal or external clients
- Financial and analytical support to organization
- Responsible for major elements of the close process including journal entry evaluation, results variance explanation, reporting, communicating and explaining results to clients and Business Unit leadership
- Budgeting and forecasting using drivers
- Partner with internal clients to provide financial data, consultation and make recommendations regarding completion of objectives, and improving operational effectiveness
- Gather and organize data used to prepare financial/business reports
- Establish, interpret and assess financial data including monthly financial results, recommendations or preparing statements for business partners/stakeholders
- Perform financial data analysis to support Business Unit in assessing corporate financial targets and operational objectives
- Generate special ad hoc reports and perform analysis as requested by supervisor, business partners/clients, and other Business Unit stakeholders
- Improve partnerships with key internal clients by identifying changing business needs, service expectations, quality and format of data provided, and identify opportunities to improve service levels
- Lead multiple, complex, and financial/business analysis projects
- Review and revise processes as financial and business conditions change
- Work on complex issues which require input from multiple sources and innovative problem solving
- Act in a multi-discipline project leadership role working towards the development of new solutions, processes, tools and systems
- Interface to negotiate and exchange information with all levels of management
- Focus on company-wide processes and initiatives
- Step in for management when called upon to help lead meetings
- Support organization through training other analysts and business partners on key reporting and forecasting processes
What We Look For in a Candidate
Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Business or relevant field or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years related experience
- Strong financial skills
- Ability to use advanced Excel functions
- Ability to structure and convey ideas and information, both verbally and in written presentation form, in a concise, effective and persuasive manner to bring clear understanding to the target audience
- Ability to examine data from multiple sources to assess whether correlation and linkage exist between data sets
- Ability to organize and manage work in an efficient and effective manner to ensure tasks, milestones and goals are met according to defined timelines
Preferred
- Strong organizational and problem solving skills
- Prior work experience in regulatory or accounting
- Knowledge of SAP software applications
- Ability to work in a team environment
Compensation
The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee's primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual's qualifications.
Location Based Pay Ranges
$63,980 - $85,300 in these states: AR, ID, KY, LA, ME, MS, NE, SC, and SD.
$67,340 - $89,780 in these states: AZ, AL, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, MO, MT, NM, ND, OH, OK, PA, TN, UT, VT, WV, WI, and WY.
$70,710 - $94,270 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, OR, and RI.
$74,070 - $98,760 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DE, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.
As with the pay range variety that's based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications and other business needs.
Application Deadline
10/22/2024
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