Senior Financial Analyst at Clear Channel

Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary:

The Senior Financial Analyst supports the Airports Division of Clear Channel Outdoor. This position focuses on reporting, modelling, forecasting, business analytics, budgeting, and other sales and operational tasks. This role provides reporting and analysis that focused sales, revenues, expense activity, and capital.

Job Responsibilities:

• Prepares financial statement analyses and commentaries, analyzing trends, researching issues, and responding to inquiries.
• Prepares weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and distributes to stakeholders across the organization, inclusive of commentaries that explain financial data to non-financial stakeholders.
• Collaborates on monthly financial variance reporting/close packages, identifying key variances to forecast, budget, prior years, and risks & opportunities to the business.
• Supports Airports Portfolio team by providing financial information for business reviews and by analyzing performance of competitors, including identifying trends in competitors’ behavior.
• Prepares forecast & budget assumptions and works in collaboration with stakeholders for input, and analyses/quantifies the impact of changes.
• Prepares sales pipeline, inventory, and pricing analytics reporting.
• Builds Business Intelligence (BI & Power BI) queries and reporting
• Revenue modelling for market retention and acquisition targets
• Performs analysis on profitability, revenue trends and other periodic ad-hoc analytical projects.
• Provides support to and cross training within all finance groups

Job Qualifications

Education and Certifications

• Minimum of 4-year college degree in Finance, Economics or Accounting

Work Experience

• 3+ years analytical experience in financial planning, sales operations, or other finance-heavy industries

Skills

• Business Acumen – Knows how businesses work, knowledgeable in current and possible future policies.

• High degree of quantitative, analysis, problem-solving and decision-making skills; critical thinker
• Experience with active participation in financial forecasting, reporting, and budgeting
• Ability to assemble large volumes of data & inputs, and organize for strategic decision making with an acute sense of urgency
• Deep and broad business acumen with strong analytical, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Ability to understand trends & results at both a strategic & tactical level, and to see the inter-relationships between them

• Technical Aptitude – Proficient in Microsoft software applications & other financial systems.

• Experience with WorkDay GL, Adaptive/Office Connect, BI systems and Quattro
• Advanced Excel skills, ability to work with lookups, pivot tables, macros, etc. and proficient in Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Proven experience with creating “dashboard” style reporting from Excel
• Solid knowledge of general accepted accounting principles

Competencies

• Action Oriented – Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things seen as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning.
• Customer Focused – Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
• Professionalism – Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through on commitments

• Self-starter, can work independently under minimal supervision
• Strong interpersonal skills; professional and confident demeanor
• Stress tolerance, can maintain composure when faced with difficult situations/personalities

• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality

• Highly detail oriented, with strong attention to accuracy
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Results Focused – Takes a dynamic approach to work characterized by initiating decisions and actions. Concentrating on achieving the outcomes of a process or project while adhering to the overall strategy of the organization.
• Time Management – Uses time effectively and efficiently; values time; concentrates efforts on the more important priorities.

• Excellent planning and organization skills; can multitask and prioritize workload under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment 

Physical Demands

The demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Employee must have the ability to sit and/or stand at a desk for a minimum of 8 hours a day and complete tasks requiring repetitive use of hands. 
• Employee must have the ability to lift and move items up to 15 pounds. 
• Employee must have the ability to see written documents and computer screens, and to adjust focus.
• This job is performed in a temperature-controlled office environment. 

Location:

Allentown, PA: 7450 Tilghman St, Suite 104, 18106