Sr Financial Analyst
McDermott International, Ltd, Houston, TX, United States
The Financial Analyst is responsible for financial forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and account reconciliation, while supporting month-end and year-end close activities. This role analyzes financial and operational performance, including SG&A spending, budget variances, KPIs, and business trends, to identify risks and opportunities and provide meaningful insights and recommendations. The analyst prepares and delivers recurring and ad-hoc financial reports, manages quarterly forecasts, supports short- and long‑term financial projections, and simplifies complex financial information for leadership using tools such as Excel, Oracle, JDE, and Business Intelligence platforms.
Responsibilities
Financial Analyst is responsible for financial forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and account reconciliation
The analyst should review the company’s finances with a critical eye - spotting data anomalies, trends, or deviations - and recommends and supports management’s strategies for improvement
Assists the senior FP&A Manager and Controller with providing short and long‑term financial projections
The ability to simplify financial information to benefit the company leadership and decision‑making is the daily domain of the analyst
Development and communication of budgets and forecasts, financial reporting, operational analysis, and review of financials
Consolidate and report financial results, and reconcile account balance
Communicate financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics
Interpret and evaluate monthly analyses of business trends, including budget variance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities and provide recommendations
Analyzing SGA spending variances and Develop bridges and assist with commentaries, explaining variances from prior year, forecast, and budget
Identify issues and proactively initiate analysis for financial statements
Designs, develops, and delivers monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad‑hoc reports, charts, graphs, and presentation materials tailored to divisional and leadership needs
Manages quarterly forecasting for budgets incorporating operational trends, program, or strategic initiative changes, and updated financial or operational assumptions
The analyst is also adept at software programs like Excel, Oracle, JDE and Business Intelligence tools
Assist in month‑end and year‑end financial closing activities
Ad‑hoc analysis
Essential Qualifications and Education
Required: Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related business specialty
Advance degree in Finance/Accounting or MBA is a plus
Required: minimum Five years’ experience in data analysis, accounting, or financial analysis
Experience with ERP (Oracle, or SAP) systems, Essbase, FCCS, EPBCS, and SmartView is a plus
Must have heavy Excel skills and forecasting and budgeting experience
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Responsibilities
Financial Analyst is responsible for financial forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and account reconciliation
The analyst should review the company’s finances with a critical eye - spotting data anomalies, trends, or deviations - and recommends and supports management’s strategies for improvement
Assists the senior FP&A Manager and Controller with providing short and long‑term financial projections
The ability to simplify financial information to benefit the company leadership and decision‑making is the daily domain of the analyst
Development and communication of budgets and forecasts, financial reporting, operational analysis, and review of financials
Consolidate and report financial results, and reconcile account balance
Communicate financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics
Interpret and evaluate monthly analyses of business trends, including budget variance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities and provide recommendations
Analyzing SGA spending variances and Develop bridges and assist with commentaries, explaining variances from prior year, forecast, and budget
Identify issues and proactively initiate analysis for financial statements
Designs, develops, and delivers monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad‑hoc reports, charts, graphs, and presentation materials tailored to divisional and leadership needs
Manages quarterly forecasting for budgets incorporating operational trends, program, or strategic initiative changes, and updated financial or operational assumptions
The analyst is also adept at software programs like Excel, Oracle, JDE and Business Intelligence tools
Assist in month‑end and year‑end financial closing activities
Ad‑hoc analysis
Essential Qualifications and Education
Required: Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related business specialty
Advance degree in Finance/Accounting or MBA is a plus
Required: minimum Five years’ experience in data analysis, accounting, or financial analysis
Experience with ERP (Oracle, or SAP) systems, Essbase, FCCS, EPBCS, and SmartView is a plus
Must have heavy Excel skills and forecasting and budgeting experience
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