Want to hear something crazy? Cars only spend 5% of their time driving. Where do they spend the other 95%? PARKED!
LAZ Parking is one of the largest and fastest growing parking companies in the country. LAZ operates hundreds of thousands of parking spaces across the country. When it comes to parking, we’re the experts!
We are also a PEOPLE FIRST company. We often say “parking is our industry but people are our passion.” Our mission is to “create opportunities for our employees and value for our clients”. If you’re looking to join a growing company led by passionate people committed to being the best – contact us today!
The Spirit of the Position:
Based in the Hartford, CT home office, the Financial Analyst will work closely with the FP&A Manager within a team of analysts to produce business analytics, financial reporting, budgets, and long-term business plans. This position will play an active role in the design of key charts, reports, scorecards, dashboards, KPI and metrics and in the production of presentations to C-level executives and Regional Vice Presidents.
The Financial Analyst will also provide support and guidance to the regions during each semi-annual forecast process for over 3000 operating locations.
The position will offer a great opportunity to provide information to executives and VP’s that can drive business decisions and truly make a difference in the profitability of the company while collaboratively contributing to our FP&A initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Business & Financial Analytics – BI-Finance
- Participate in production of board, partner, and regional VP meeting financial presentations.
- Assist the FP&A Manager on all matters related to budgeting and business performance management.
- Act as the subject-matter expert in our finance and business analytics software tools.
- Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and budget data entry forms that are accurate, concise and easy to digest.
- Play an active role in business intelligence projects to recommend and develop metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and reports that provide great insights and fuel decisions.
- Participate to develop on-going engagement of regional management in using BI tools.
- Work with other departments and software consultants to brainstorm and implement new processes or software amendments to ensure an accurate data model.
- Input, maintain, and research key location data to allow for comprehensive analyses.
- Write and maintain procedures and training materials to guide department team and also regional users.
- Serve as the key data administrator emphasizing data field accuracy with frequent validation.
- Participate in transitioning finance software tools to new data model for the accounting conversion to Business Central.
- Produce ad hoc analyses and projects as necessary.
Budgeting
- Build relationships with an assigned book of regions, to train and support users during each semi-annual budgeting exercise.
- Thoroughly review each regional budget for accuracy.
- Review inputs from many different angles such as location P&L’s, reports focused on revenue, OPEX, CAPEX, and several managed location revenue streams and costs, historical and forecasted ratios for G&A, new business, retention and claims, comparison to long-term business plan and more.
- Flag budget items that deviate from history or prior budget expectations.
- Lead a preliminary review call or meeting with each assigned region to ask questions about flagged budget items.
- Develop and maintain budget review charts and presentations to provide CFO and other executives a quick, accurate, and thorough review as well as a solid understanding of the forecasted picture for each region.
Recipe for success:
- Ability and willingness to “roll up” your sleeves to help teammates so everyone can be successful.
- One who embodies the LAZ values: trust, respect, honesty and integrity, and commitment to people.
- Someone who can be trusted to work with confidential information with discretion.
- One who is eager to learn and gain a quick understanding of new processes and applications.
- A self-starter that can troubleshoot issues on their own and finds solutions.
- Has a strong ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Someone who can articulate complex concepts succinctly and clearly especially when delivering information to executives and VP’s.
- Who is detail oriented, proactive, patient, and persevering with strong analytical skills.
Requirements:
- BS/BA in Finance or Accounting.
- 1-3 years of experience analyzing data and interpreting findings into concise summaries.
- Highly proficient with MS Office, especially with strong Excel skills (charts, advanced formulas, pivot tables, macros, add-ins).
- Experience with SQL, Tagetik, Navision, Business Central, and/or Microsoft Power BI is a plus.
Physical Demands:
Ability to lift, push and pull at least 10 pounds.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualified disabilities to perform the essential duties/functions.
FLSA Status: Exempt
LAZ Parking is an equal opportunity employer. In all our employment practices, including hiring, we are firmly committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetics, Vietnam era, special disabled, recently separated and other protected veterans, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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