Senior Fin. Planning & Analysis Analyst

Senior Fin. Planning & Analysis Analyst

Main Office

Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analysts are responsible for consolidating and validating the actual budget and / or forecast of key performance metrics, key drivers and assumptions to aid in the development of various models. They will be responsible for performing analysis resulting in value-adding recommendations to various departments throughout the company. Additionally, they assist in the administration of various reporting systems, perform monthly various analysis, and are responsible for other projects and ad-hoc analysis as requested.

Job Duties :

• Manage accurate entity structure, data set and calculation in the budget / forecast system.
• Create, maintain and ensure accuracy of templates within various system.
• Coordinate portions of the annual budget process, consolidate results and review budget models for errors; act as a liaison between Operations, Acquisitions, Accounting and Finance regarding budgeting and forecasting.
• Analyze financial and operational results versus forecast and plan, and forecast and actual; research variances and understand the root causes of the variance.
• Maintain and provide support for various internal and external reporting models.
• Monitor internal Labor Dashboards to ensure accuracy and research variances as needed.
• Manage administration of various systems related to budgeting, forecasting, internal reporting, and public reporting.
• Assist with the corporate cash flow modeling, and developing models and analyses to aid in the validation of existing forecasts; support strategic initiatives and assist with reviewing critical financial decisions.
• Develop key reporting within various systems to provide timely and actionable financial results.
• Participate in the forecast / budget software implementation and development; assist in evaluation and development of additional models.
• Attend various meetings to disseminate financial information as needed.
• Provide financial support to the Operations department as requested.
• Other duties and special projects as requested.
• Evaluate Company systems and processes for accumulating and reporting data to provide value, adding recommendations to various departments.
• Work closely with other departments to understand and document variances between actuals and budget.
• Perform data analytics over large data sets, summarizing the information into executive level summaries.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of various models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and assist with reviewing critical financial decisions.

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Benefits :

At Sun Communities, you will be part of an industry-leading organization where you will be challenged, inspired, rewarded and transformed. We place a high priority on our team members, and this is a big part of what sets us apart. We will ask you to give us your very best every day, and will challenge you with interesting work, stretch assignments, a collaborative and supportive work environment and plenty of learning and growth. In exchange, we will reward you with great pay, advancement opportunities, paid time off, great benefits, and flexibility.

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