The Product Development Financial Analyst/Business Partner will partner with Cirrus Product Development team to deliver key business insights and support strategic programs and projects. This position will collaborate with Product Development leadership to identify Key Performance Indicators by leveraging and improving upon existing metrics and identifying business trends through related measurement and analysis. This position will also analyze historical spending trends, evaluate different scenarios and help the business team understand potential trade-offs. With innovation at the heart of Cirrus Aircraft, this position is rife with opportunity to make an impact both at a direct financial level through insightful data analysis and recommendation and indirectly through the influencing of processes and policy.
Duties and Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Acts as lead business partner to Product Development leadership providing financial outlook and performance, actively participating in cross-functional meetings and presenting relevant reporting and documents to all levels of management
- Participates in preparation of annual financial budgets and updated financial projections as needed to track performance and outlook of projects
- Prepares actual to budget/forecast variance analysis including identification of headcount, operating, outsourcing and expense savings opportunities, and provides actionable recommendations to Product Development leadership as well as identification of potential risks, meanwhile encouraging accountability for achieving forecasted/plan results
- Engages in monthly reviews, providing financial insights to key drivers of change and ensuring results are well understood by decision makers
- Collaborates with Product Development to make recommendations for scalable business solutions related to planning and budgeting
- Acts as liaison between business team and accounting department ensuring transactions are appropriately accounted for in the financials
- Performs ad hoc financial analysis as requested
- Is a member of the Product Development Leadership Team (PDLT) attending regularly scheduled staff meetings and participating in PDLT events
- Creates, maintains, and validates reporting tools for Product Development analysis
- Working on multiple projects at a time, this role will focus on the details while simultaneously working to take on high level/big picture challenges
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelors degree in accounting or finance
- Minimum of 5 years experience in financial analysis
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, accounting principles knowledge, documentation skills, research and resolution skills, data analysis and multi-tasking skills
- Ability to prepare comprehensive financial forecasts and appropriately represent financial information
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage time and consistently meet deadlines
- Ability to work in a cross-functional fast-paced environment and to drive operational initiatives
- Aptitude to take charge, set objectives, lead by influence and drive results
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Financial Acumen: Interprets and applies understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
- Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Builds Networks: Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks.
Position will be filed commensurate with experience.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required.
Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
