This position supports the Finance team and will be asked to support peers and management. Provides timely, relevant and accurate financial and operational performance data and analyses. Perform business, financial, and operational analysis to impact top-line and bottom-line results and to support senior management decision making. Updates key reports continuously and tracks performance against projections.
Responsibilities
- Provide analysis, forecasting, reporting and project support to CFO/COO and Finance team.
- Includes quick-turn and priority ad hoc complex Excel assignments.
- Preparation of client pricing models and budget tracking reports for key clients in complex Excel worksheets.
- Develop financial models that help with business decision-making.
- Capable of thinking analytically and creatively with initiative, confidence, and drive to achieve results.
- Investigate and explain operational and financial variances to budget/plan.
- Prepare timely, well-written presentations that can be understood by people at all levels and with all types of skill sets.
- Present key points clearly and concisely.
- Taking a leadership position in preparing special analyses to support important initiatives within the company.
- Provide advisory support to department managers on matters pertaining to client budgets.
- Ability to manage relationships with people at all levels of the organization and to communicate with key clients.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects quickly and meet deadlines.
Desirable Competencies & Skills
- Capable of thinking analytically and creatively with initiative, confidence, and drive to achieve results.
- Strong verbal and written presentation skills.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Individual initiative: works well with others to learn continuously, to solve complex problems, to break bottlenecks, to challenge the status quo with a continuous improvement orientation.
- Expertise in Office 365 suite to include Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and MS AX Dynamics.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree Course of Study/Major: Preferably a quantitative orientation such as finance
- Ideally, working toward an MBA.
Our hybrid work model:
KERN's current hybrid model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while also supporting flexibility for all employees. As such, we have the option to work from home two days per week, and are required to be in-office a minimum of three days per week.
The annual base salary range for this position is $70,000.00 - $100,000.00. Exactly where a prospective employee will be paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, the actual salary ranges for current and former employees who are either currently filling a similar role or did in the past; the candidate’s depth of experience and qualifications; the level of specialization the role requires; budgetary considerations; the market demand for that role and the local market conditions that exist where the employee will be based.