The Senior Financial Analyst, General & Administration, is a key member of the Corporate Finance team, reporting to Corporate FP&A Director. This position will act as direct business partner with business leaders and is responsible for development of accurate headcount, expense and capital budgets/forecasts, timely corporate submissions, month-end FP&A close activities, and management reporting.
This position reports to the Director, Global Financial Planning and Analysis and is part of the Finance Team located in Sunnyvale, CA and will be an on-site role.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Act as business partner for G&A Leaders – while establishing a regular cadence with business partners to review monthly actuals, analyze forecast variance, identify trends and provide recommendations to drive forecast execution and accuracy. Prepare and distribute monthly/quarterly management review packages.
- Evaluate results to plan, drive variance analysis and provide partnership to business leaders to execute on plan; analyze historical, current, and projected financial data for use in planning, forecasting, and management decision making.
- Perform in-depth financial & operational analysis and quarterly/annual forecast modeling, including operating expenses, headcount and capital, to accelerate future business planning decisions.
- Actively participate in cross-functional projects designed to solve business problems and improve profitability.
- Conduct ad-hoc planning and analysis to support the business and senior management.
The essential requirements of the job include:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics or related field with 4+ years of relevant financial planning and analysis experience.
- Understanding of accounting processes, procedures and internal controls.
- Advanced user in MS Excel.
- ERP/planning applications experience (SAP/OneStream preferred).
Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
The annual salary range for this role is $125K to $140K. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
