Senior Financial Analyst

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Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation.  For more information, please visit solera.com.

The Role

The Senior Financial Analyst will support the successful financial outcomes for Solera’s Fleet/Claims Business Units and/or strategic initiatives by providing detailed, timely, and insightful analysis. This role will provide ongoing support for key topics such as revenue and results analysis and reporting, contribution margin and financial trend analysis, analytics and forecasting of key revenue and cost drivers in the business and provide support for finance reviews.

The successful individual in this role will utilize their keen eye for detail and ability to reconcile and align multiple data sources to present well-structured and clear analysis and reporting for a senior audience to consume.

What You’ll Do

Become embedded with departmental leaders across the Fleet/Claims Business Unit, establish trust and quickly understand the business, economics and metrics

Focus on sources of variability, understand causes and implement data-driven forecasting improvements and insights as part of variance and forecast analysis

Heavy data mining to develop robust models on trends, key business drivers and financial results to prioritize and plan key decisions including revenue forecasting

Communicate and work with the business and accounting on close, forecast, variance and ad hoc items

Design, prepare, and automate periodic dashboards / reports of operating results, trends and metrics for the sales and senior leadership teams

Ability to analyze key business drivers, then translate the findings in terms of financial impact to the business

Support preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting packages and key metrics

Work with corporate Solera FP&A towards corporate initiatives and reporting requirements of the business unit to the total company consolidation, including monthly business unit uploads to TM1 of results, KPIs and forecast loads

Analyze, review and challenge business units’ forecast assumptions

Monitor business performance against KPIs and strategic plans

Ad hoc reports as needed

What You’ll Bring

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field, MBA a plus

3-5+ years of experience in FP&A role, with experience across revenue, margin, and expenses

Strong financial acumen (forecasting, variance analysis, report and analytical analysis of revenue/gross and contribution margin or such financial trends)

Superior financial modeling and using analysis to influence decision-making, including prior experience in finance and/or strategy-related role

Experience compiling data from multiple sources and summarizing to drive towards goal

Clear communication both verbally and via presentation of financials

Self-motivated / Self-starter with a strong work ethic, inquisitive, enjoy problem solving and looking to seek and drive solutions/improvements towards results

Knowledge of financial and reporting process optimization a plus

Advanced skills with Excel required, powerpoint and word preferred; experience with budgetary planning software preferred (TM1), ERP (Cognos, Oracle) and/or analytic tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, etc.) a plus

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position.  Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time.  Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive.   The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description.  The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.

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