Associate Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis

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Description

We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow across our collaborative Finance and FP&A teams. The FP&A team supports financial planning, reporting, analysis, and business performance management. This role will also contribute to process improvement and automation initiatives that help streamline recurring activities, improve reporting efficiency, and enhance data-driven decision-making.

Job overview and responsibilities:

The Associate Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis role will support FP&A activities including reporting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and business performance reviews. The role will involve working with financial and operational data, partnering with stakeholders, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and automate recurring reporting or analytical tasks. Responsibilities may include:

- Identify opportunities to improve, simplify, and automate FP&A processes such as reporting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and recurring trackers

- Build and maintain reports, dashboards, trackers, and analytical templates using advanced Excel and other reporting tools

- Use SQL to extract, validate, reconcile, and analyze data from structured finance and operational datasets

- Use Python to automate repetitive tasks, perform data transformation, and support analytical workflows

- Partner with FP&A, finance, operations, and technology stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical automation and analytics solutions

- Assist in documenting current-state and future-state processes, including process flows, controls, assumptions, business rules, and handoff points

- Support data quality checks, reconciliations, variance analysis, and root-cause investigations to strengthen FP&A reporting accuracy

- Contribute to automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve turnaround time, and enable more consistent financial analysis