Financial Analyst (Forecast, budget and data analysis)

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About The Opportunity

The Financial Analyst position reports to the Senior Manager of Finance. In this role, the Financial Analyst will interact with a variety of levels of the organization and will be responsible for delivering value-added business analysis and meaningful financial/operational metrics that lead to insightful, accurate business decision making. The role will be responsible for analyzing 3rd Party & Nonlabor expenses. The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter, able to prioritize tasks, and has excellent analytical skills.

• Where you will make an impact
• Monthly forecasting and annual budget, including risks and opportunities, as well as long-term projections.
• Month-end close analysis and reporting.
• Provide analysis and insights into variances between actual and expected results.
• Prepare/consolidate monthly financial reporting packages, including variance analysis with executive commentary.
• Develop and maintain financial and operating KPIs and ad-hoc financial analysis to drive better decision-making and prioritization for the organization.
• Various other ad-hoc analyses, reports, and special projects as needed.
• Exhibit flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities and assignments as needed.
• What you will bring
• 2+ years relevant work experience in financial planning and analysis preferred, with strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Strong business acumen with a demonstrated ability to understand and analyze key performance drivers for a business, draw conclusions, and extend concepts/recommendations towards future business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize financials and KPI’s in simple business terms and turn conclusions into stories that operators can understand and respond to.
• Ability to work with large amounts of data and to translate results into meaningful metrics and recommendations aimed at improving business performance.
• Ability to inherit existing analyses/metrics, maintain and extend value, and to frame associated recommendations.
• Experience with features of Excel and PowerPoint
• Work well under pressure & within short timelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to comfortably engage with and build trust with business partners at higher levels of seniority.
• Communicates a sense of urgency and a commitment to delivering on time with quality
  
  

What makes #Ellucianlife

• Comprehensive health coverage: family major medical expenses, dental and life insurance.
• Christmas bonus 30 days
• Saving fund
• Monthly food coupon
• 15 workdays vacation
• Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Women in Technology, Pride and Go Green to name a few.
• Parental leave
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Tuition Reimbursement Assistance
• Professional development opportunities