The Financial Analyst will support financial planning, analysis, and reporting for 3PL (Third Party Logistics), a business segment within CoverMyMeds. You'll partner closely with Accounting, FP&A, operations leaders, and cost center owners to turn financial results into actionable insights, with particular focus on revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, forecasting, and the monthly close.
What You'll Do- Analyze financial performance and deliver timely, actionable insights that support business decisions.
- Develop and maintain Excel-based financial models, forecasts, budgets, long-range plans, and ad hoc analyses.
- Analyze revenue, gross profit, and operating expense performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and strategic plans.
- Own monthly operating expense reporting for assigned categories and consolidate results across cost centers to explain total segment performance.
- Identify key financial drivers, risks, and opportunities and translate results into concise commentary for business leaders.
- Partner with cost center owners to understand spending trends, vendor commitments, contracts, and headcount-related costs and incorporate those drivers into forecasts.
- Support month-end close by reviewing financial results and helping identify accruals, reclassifications, corrections, and other accounting needs before close.
- Prepare variance explanations and supporting materials for post-close reviews with business leaders and cost center owners.
- Maintain financial controls and supporting documentation to help ensure accurate, timely, and reliable reporting.
- Collaborate with Accounting, operations, FSS, and Corporate and business-unit FP&A teams on financial analysis and planning.
- Lead ad hoc financial and planning projects by clarifying objectives, evaluating assumptions, and developing recommendations with limited supervision.
- Identify opportunities to make financial reporting, forecasting, reconciliation, and close processes faster and more reliable.
- Build repeatable reporting using Excel, Power BI, and enterprise planning and reporting systems.
- Apply AI and automation tools, including Copilot and Power Automate, to streamline recurring data pulls, reconciliations, analysis, and first-draft financial commentary.
- Cross-train across FP&A responsibilities and provide backup support to the broader team.
Skills You'll Need- Bring 3+ years of experience in accounting, finance, financial analytics, FP&A, or a comparable discipline.
- Hold a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Apply working knowledge of month-end close, journal entries, accruals, financial statements, and variance analysis.
- Build and maintain financial models and analyze large data sets with strong attention to accuracy and detail.
- Identify root causes behind financial results and translate complex data into clear recommendations.
- Explain financial performance effectively to both finance and non-finance audiences, including senior leaders.
- Manage multiple priorities and projects while meeting competing deadlines in a fast-paced monthly close environment.
- Demonstrate sound judgment and maintain appropriate confidentiality and controls when handling sensitive financial information.
- Build productive relationships across Finance, Accounting, operations, and other business functions.
- Take ownership of work, proactively investigate issues, and operate effectively with limited supervision.
Preferred Skills- Bring experience in corporate FP&A, management reporting, or a shared-services finance environment.
- Demonstrate experience in healthcare, healthcare IT, pharmacy, pharmaceutical, logistics, or distribution environments.
- Use large ERP and enterprise planning systems, such as SAP, alongside advanced Excel and Power BI capabilities.
- Apply automation and AI tools, such as Copilot or Power Automate, to improve recurring finance processes.
- Demonstrate experience with driver-based forecasting, annual budgeting, and long-range planning.
- Hold an MBA, CPA, or other relevant advanced finance or accounting credential.
- Demonstrate strong ethical judgment, relationship building, communication, teamwork, organization, planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Thrive in a collaborative, hands-on environment that values initiative, continuous improvement, and accountability.
Location: Columbus, Ohio, Dallas/Ft. Worth. Texas
We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.
Our Base Pay Range for this position$78,800 - $131,300
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