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JOB TITLE: Financial Analyst II

JOB LOCATION: India (Remote)

FUNCTION: Finance

JOB DESCRIPTION:

  • The Rackspace Corporate Finance Team has a pivotal role in supporting Corporate Functions business partners in understanding their expense structure, helping to manage expense increases/decreases, and analyzing forecast to actual variances. With a wide scope of accountability/ownership, you will perform analysis of the relevant financial metrics and work closely with the wider business to understand trends as well as internal needs. You will take a proactive approach, working with Directors and VP's through the development process of each budget and makes recommendations.
  • Within this team, a Financial Analyst will primarily support Corporate Functions such as HR, IT, or Legal. You will be responsible for developing department’s annual budgeting process: plans, develops, prepares, inputs, and maintains company’s budgets and monthly forecast.
  • Daily tasks include analyzing and evaluating the department's operating results and financial position to summarize, report, and influence key financial decisions. In addition, develop/review forecasts for accurate and timely cash flow projections, expense projections, headcount, department performance, and direct expenses.
  • We are looking for someone who can work under pressure, maintain high standards of deliverables and attention to detail, who thinks in a structured way and is highly analytical. A successful candidate should be able to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks, be curious about technology, willing to learn and should have a very strong understanding of financial concepts.

    • JOB REQUIREMENTS:

  • Key Accountabilities
  • Provide guidance to corporate organizations with regards to expense budgets and forecasts
  • Owning full life cycle of annual budget to monthly forecast to actual results with variance analysis and reporting throughout
  • Help drive expense reduction efforts through quality information management and advice
  • Constantly improve processes & reporting to meet the needs of senior business partners
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Maintain and improve forecast to actual reporting
  • Ensure that business leaders are taking healthy financial decisions and that the company’s overall financial targets are achieved
  • Evaluate profitability and margins for the organization through objective and data-driven analysis
  • Improve tools enhancing the understanding of financial performance by the business

    • MAIN CONTACTS (external/internal):

  • Corporate Functions business partners such as the head of HR, IT, or Legal
  • Accounting, wider Finance team members
  • Executive Leadership
  • Third Party Vendors

    • PERSON SPECIFICATION:

  • Bachelors in Business Administration/Finance/Economics
  • Masters degree or 1-2 years of relevant working experience highly desirable
  • Technical knowledge of budgeting, financial statements, cash management, and financial analysis processes
  • Self-starter that takes ownership of issues and drives them toward a conclusion
  • Able to succeed in a fast, high-growth and fairly unstructured work environment
  • Ability to dig into details as well as analyze data from a high level view
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal/networking skills.
  • Team player with an open and internal customer focused approach
  • Works under minimal supervision. Provides updates of work performed as needed.

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