Senior Financial Analyst - Newark

***Position is located onsite at Hertz Newark (EWR) offices***

The Senior Financial Analyst role is known for driving overall analytical support within the Fleet Operations Finance group.

How will you be involved? What will you do?

FORECASTING AND REPORTING

• Develop long-term and short-term forecasts; develop complex models and scenarios to forecast performance
• Identify business issues and opportunities by analyzing financial and non-financial data
• Analyze, interpret and evaluate data by challenging inputs and performing reasonability assessments
• Proactively identify key performance indicators that drive better decision making
• Condense and synthesize vast financial data into a meaningful and actionable message
• Develop and maintain monthly financial reporting package, containing key metrics by channel and by location. Utilize dashboards to identify opportunities for management to improve performance and achieve financial goals.
• Benchmark current business performance to competitors
• Anticipate future market or industry trends to drive business performance decisions
• Plan and coordinate others in performing consolidation and closure activities

FINANCIAL PLANNING AND BUDGETING

• Prepare and interpret operational budgets, identify gaps and assesses consistency with the overall business strategy
• Present, defend and negotiate business plans to management
• Monitor financial information for trends, variances and unusual discrepancies and drive resolution of gaps by making informed recommendations to management
• Challenge managers in the justification of financial proposals
• Identify and evaluate risk associated with business performance and strategy

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

• Develop complex models and scenarios to forecast performance and identify issues and opportunities
• Analyze financial and non-financial data

DATA VISUALIZATION

• Condense and synthesize vast financial data into meaningful and actionable message
• Use dashboards and identify opportunities for management to improve performance and achieve financial goals
• Communicate performance measurements via visualizations (tableau dashboard development) and statistical modeling

BUSINESS CONTROLS

• Plan and conduct financial/operational audits of retail locations. Verify compliance of activities with policies, regulations, and procedures
• Reports audit findings to strategic business leaders, communicate the impact of identified audit risks and recommend corrective action

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Seek and build alliances within the finance organization and across the business to ensure that finance is included as a vital strategic partner in the business decision making processes
• Provide input as a key business partner for strategic business agenda development

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

• Plan and conduct financial/operational audits of retail locations. Verify compliance of activities with policies, regulations, and procedures
• Reports audit findings to strategic business leaders, communicate the impact of identified audit risks and recommend corrective action

• Bachelors degree required (finance/accounting preferred)
• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience
• Excellent PC skills, including proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint
• Oracle/Hyperion experience
• Tableau Experience

At Hertz, we champion and celebrate a culture of diversity and inclusion. We take affirmative steps to promote employment and advancement opportunities. The endless variety of perspectives, experiences, skills and talents that our employees invest in their work every day represent a significant part of our culture – and our success and reputation as a company.

Individuals are encouraged to apply for positions because of the characteristics that make them unique.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Hertz is a drug free workplace.

EOE, including disability/veteran