FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS ANALYST

American Pacific Mortgage Corporation

$80K — $95K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
  • 3 years of experience in financial planning and analysis roles, preferably in the mortgage industry or financial services.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with business intelligence tools.
  • Knowledge of accounting principles and ability to work with various accounting software, including Loan Vision and Encompass.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the company's budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • Develop business intelligence tools and dashboards for revenue and cost analysis.
  • Analyze monthly branch profit and loss statements.
  • Provide insights for effective financial decision-making.
  • Standardize and automate internal reporting processes.
  • Support month-end close activities and process improvements.
  • Complete ad hoc analysis and special projects as required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working environment offering flexibility.
  • Opportunity to work on diverse projects within the finance team.
  • Collaboration with various teams across the company.
  • Potential for process improvement and automation initiatives.
  • Exposure to advanced financial planning tools and reporting techniques.
Full Job Description
Hybrid Position

Summary:

The Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst is responsible for driving the Company's annual budgeting process, quarterly forecast, variance analysis, and special projects.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Participate in the budgeting and forecasting cycles of the company.
  • Develop business intelligence tools, forecast models, and dash boards that assist with reporting, analyzing, and forecasting revenue, costs, and KPIs for the Company.
  • Compilation and analysis of monthly branch profit and loss statements.
  • Support the Company with insights and analysis that enable effective financial decisions.
  • Drive standardization and automation of internal reporting, identify mapping errors within systems and provide resolutions.
  • Support month-end close activities.
  • Contribute to process improvement and process documentation initiatives.
  • Complete additional ad hoc analysis, special projects, and other duties as assigned.


Required Skills/ Abilities:

  • Must be reliable, trustworthy, team oriented, deadline driven in a multi-taking environment.
  • Self-starter with the ability to work independently, and to communicate and interact effectively with various teams as needed.
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with extraordinary attention to detail.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles is required.
  • Microsoft Office Suite experience, advance modeling in Excel is required.
  • Knowledge of Loan Vision and Encompass software is a plus.


  • Must be able to learn other accounting software systems.


Supervisory Responsibilities:

  • This position does not have direct reports.


Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
  • 3 years of direct experience in a financial planning and analysis role, mortgage industry, financial services preferred.


Physical Demands/ Environment:
  • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

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