Senior Financial Analyst Needed!

LHH has a client located in Pittsburgh, PA who needs a Senior Financial Analyst on a 1-year contract opportunity!

This is a great chance to work with a well-known aerospace manufacturing company to advance your career.

Job Description:

The Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) supports company-wide consolidated financial reporting and supports critical financial forecasting systems to deliver accurate and timely financial planning, forecasting, and reporting.

This position also derives business insights for assigned business segments by conducting financial and strategic analysis to help inform the decisions of executive management.

Major activities/Key challenges:

• Own the Hyperion Planning environment administration by handling system maintenance tasks, ensuring data integrity, and conducting user training.

• Participate in strategic direction, ongoing management and administration of Hyperion Planning system.


• Manage critical source files and processes for efficient and accurate data collection and reporting including business driver models.


• Support FP&A process and system improvement projects to achieve world-class performance.


• Derive business insights from financial and strategic analysis and synthesize into high impact, targeted recommendations and presentations for senior management review and decision making.


• Gain in-depth understanding of segment operations and business drivers to recommend improvements.


• Review monthly actual, forecast and plan performance; understand deviations from both forecast, plan and prior year to provide insights to senior management.


• Prepare quarterly financial reports in support of the earnings release process as well as 10-Q and 10-K filings.


• Analyze markets, products and customer revenue and profitability to recommend actions that improve business results.


• Conduct business and competitor analysis as well as external benchmarking.


• Collaborate on ad hoc and ongoing financial analysis.


• Develop a network of contacts across Segment and Resource Units to facilitate efficient data gathering.

  Essential Knowledge & Skills/Education:

  • Excellent financial analytics and quantitative skills

  • Understanding of financial statements (income, balance sheet and cash flow statements)

  • Developing financial models to connect underlying business drivers to financial outcomes

  • Critical thinker that shows resourcefulness in gathering data, and is a self-directed problem solver

  • Conducts high-quality, detailed, accurate and well-documented quantitative and qualitative analysis including an ability to flesh out detail and clarify understanding of assigned work

  • Experienced in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Hyperion reporting applications

  • Collaborates well with colleagues; Desire to build a strong understanding of the business

  • Strong communication and presentation development skills

  • Takes initiative to make process improvements and standardize processes

  Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree business, economics, finance, accounting or a related major or equivalent professional experience is required

  • Minimum of 7 years of experience in finance, strategy, consulting, or other quantitative function

  • Minimum of 7 years of experience working with, or analyzing financial statements

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

  • Experience with financial modeling using Excel

  • Experience with Hyperion Planning application

  • Experience with SharePoint and Power BI systems

  • Highly detail oriented

  • Strong oral and written communication skills

  • Strong interpersonal skills and team orientation

  Additional Job Details:

  **: Hyperion Experience is the must have and Power BI / SharePoint experience is the nice to have**

  Title: Senior Financial Analyst

  Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Onsite)

  Pay: $70 - $75/hour

  Type: 1-year contract

  Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing

  If you have an interest in the Senior Financial Analyst role, please apply now!

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance