JOB TITLE                    Senior Financial Analyst

DEPARTMENT:             Finance - Advertisings & Promotions (A&P)

DIVISION:                     SalonCentric

REPORTS TO:              Manager - Finance, A&P

LOCATION:                  St. Petersburg, Florida (SalonCentric National Operations Center) 

ABOUT US:

SalonCentric, a wholly owned subsidiary of L’Oréal USA, is the premiere distributor in the United States of salon professional products. Through its hundreds of stores, national field sales force and sub-distribution network, SalonCentric promotes the finest professional beauty brands and educates stylists on the latest products and trends.

POSITION SUMMARY:

SalonCentric is looking for a dynamic, highly motivated Finance Sr. Analyst to support the Advertising and Promotion side of the business. SalonCentric is a fast-paced environment with lots of opportunities to learn, advance, and be challenged to grow professionally. The position is focused on forecasting, budgeting, and managing multiple P&L line items to promote optimal decision making. Candidates must have a great sense of professionalism as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The position is expected to perform complex ad hoc analysis on a regular basis, assist in special projects, support the development of presentation materials for leadership, and continuously identify opportunities for process improvements.

KEY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Provide Financial support and guidance to the education, shows, and marketing teams:
  • Manage all education and shows tracker files for monitoring ticket sales, class attendance, and operating costs
  • Collaborate with business partners to report the latest information and confirm validity

• Budgets and Forecasting:
  • Manage the A&P budget files in totality for planned and actual spend
  • Assist in the planning of budget and forecasting process for department(s) by preparing and analyzing various financial schedules and related reports
  • Maintain inputs/outputs of actuals, trend, and budget for A&P in Compass
  • Inform Financial Controller of risks & opportunities identified through budget management and ongoing meetings with business partners
• Monthly Financial Close
  • Participate in the monthly Financial Close and be responsible for monthly closing journal entries, actuals reporting, and analysis of Monthly closing in financial reporting system
  • Confirm all month end activity on the P&L and ensure accuracy
  • Publish commentary for high level analysis of actuals
• Perform weekly financial analysis and review
• Develop financial models and reports that are flexible, accurate, and clearly present key findings and assumptions
• Create strong cross functional partnerships and provide excellent customer service
• Independently solve problems
• Meet deadlines and handle multiple objectives in a fast-paced environment
• Utilize large-scale accounting and financial systems (SAP, Analyzer, etc.
• Ad Hoc analysis

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, focus in Accounting, Finance, Economics or other related field preferred. 
• 3-5 years (minimum) work experience in a related field
• Professional communication skills, strong business acumen and a strong sense of urgency.
• Comfortable having difficult conversations with business partners and clearly stating business requirements. Strong soft skills are a plus.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel with ability to work with Pivot Tables and large data sets.
• Familiarity with SAP, Power BI, MS Access and MS PowerPoint desirable.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, highly proactive, ability to work with multiple teams.
• Skill set for identifying problems, risks and opportunities.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast changing environment
• Comfortable with environment of change and group decision making
• Ability to work with various levels of management throughout the organization
• Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks/projects
• Demonstrated leadership skills and strong interest in advancement
• Must have long-term authorization to work in the U.S.