Financial Analyst II, FP&A - Asplundh Tree Expert Co

Financial Analyst II, FP&A 

We are seeking a FP&A Analyst II to join our finance team working directly with the Corporate Leadership. This will be a great opportunity for you to collaborate with leaders across a large multi-billion-dollar company and drive the business forward by helping to scale and modernize our FP&A disciplines.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial person with a background in Finance or related field and a strong sense of ownership. The successful candidate will work hard, manage multiple work streams, be self-motivated, and learn and grow with the organization. This role will focus on the annual budget and ongoing forecasting, including capital expenditure needs, while also supporting various reporting needs including board reporting, executive dashboarding and ad-hoc analysis.

Job Type: Exempt

Pay: Salary 

Benefits:

• Benefits Available and vary per position and location.

Are you a real go-getter looking for an amazing opportunity with a nationwide full-service-utility contractor offering competitive wages and incredible benefits? Keep reading because this job might be for you!

Since 1928, Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient, and innovative line clearance services for the utility industry. Reliable, uninterrupted power is an important service provided by the world's electrical utilities and Asplundh has the expertise to help keep the power flowing. Over the years, diversification has opened vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation.

A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh has grown to employ over 36,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Learn the business, its stakeholders, our culture, and sources of information
• Lead and take ownership of the budgeting and forecasting process for Corporate Functions
• Build analysis for Corporate Functions on a monthly basis in order to track large expenses in the home office
• Assist in implementing a scalable and collaborative forecasting tool
• Develop financial projections and build financial models
• Support financial analysis at a corporate level to include development and tracking of KPIs, executive dashboarding, preparing financial reports, rolling forecasts and cross-departmental analytics
• Aid with our external reporting and board preparations including reports, narratives, and analyses
• Collaborate with teams and support projects across the organization as we modernize our systems and business processes to improve the tracking and analysis of financials
• Form business partner relationships with department heads to assist in financial reporting and analysis
• Provide ad hoc analyses to support special projects across the business

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field required; MBA preferred but not required
• 1-3 years of progressive finance and/or accounting experience required with at least one year of experience in financial planning, analysis, and modeling preferred 
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Confidence to interact with the company’s Executives and Leaders
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and frame the story
• Ability to analyze complex issues to get to the root cause and provide and implement potential solutions to these problems
• Talent for translating complex financial concepts for non-financial colleagues
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
• Proficient with creating and maintaining financial models
• Track record of taking initiative and delivering results
• Commitment to growing and developing professionally
• Experienced in working with EPM (FCCS and EPBCS) and ERP systems
• Ability to leverage the use of Data analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

Physical Requirements:

• Rarely: walking, kneeling, squatting, crawling, seeing distant, climbing on/off truck, climbing, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., depth perception, color vision, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, balancing, lifting up to 10 lbs., lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Occasionally: standing, stooping, body twisting, gripping, reaching, range of motion, climbing stairs.
• Frequently: sitting, sense of touch, manual dexterity, speaking clearly, reading, hearing-speech range.
• Constantly: seeing.

About Us:

As a full-service utility contractor, Asplundh performs tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, vegetation management with herbicides, and emergency storm work and logistical support. Asplundh is the parent company of Asplundh Infrastructure Group whose subsidiaries provide overhead and underground line construction, planning and design, meter reading and AMR/AMI installation, electrical testing, and street lighting/traffic signal services. Asplundh also operates Rotor Blade Airborne Utilities Management, overhead electric distribution, and transmission lines using MD 500 helicopters.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.  Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.