Financial Analyst

Overview

A hands-on Financial Analyst role supporting Cengage's end-to-end Product and Technology estate, covering technology journal entries, financial reporting and project capitalization.

What you'll do

• Own and maintain select monthly technology journal entries.
• Produce timely and accurate financial reporting to a variety of stakeholders, including cash spend reporting, vendor reporting and cost center spend analytics.
• Retrieve and analyze vendor invoices for accuracy of both billing and P&L placement, booking correcting entries as necessary.
• Produce weekly time-tracking reports, identifying and remediating any underperformance identified.
• Create capitalization reporting to share budget and actual performance by project.
• Learn from and assist the team's Senior Managers and Senior Financial Analyst, helping with ad hoc projects as needed.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in finance, accounting or a related field.
• Minimum of 2-4 years' experience in FP&A, private equity, or a similar role.
• Excellent working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience using SAP or a similar large-scale ERP for data extraction and financial analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with an ability to balance multiple activities.
• Experience and comfortability working in a multinational, dispersed workforce, with teammates in the US.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Outstanding analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Curiosity, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a willingness to collaborate.
• Self-starter who takes initiative; confident under pressure and meets deadlines.

Details

• Location: Noida, India (OfficeFlex).