Financial Analyst III - Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Finance Operations Accounting & Analysis (FOAA)

Finance Operations Accounting & Analysis (FOAA) is looking for a LSS BB . In this role, you will develop and drive transformational financial initiatives along with a cross-functional team of senior financial analysts, business intelligence engineers, and process/project managers. You will have opportunities to solve significant business problems through business process re-engineering (BPR) and innovative technology. You will also work on strategic projects to define and create brand new processes that have not done before. You will work with multiple Accounting functions like AP, AR, Payroll, VAT, GST, Fixed Assets, Capex, etc. and stakeholders spread across geographies, building partnership is critical to this role. This role will drive financial transformation activities across FOAA’s three shared service centers in Costa Rica, China and India as well as lead cross functional Kaizens/ BPRs including stakeholders from business and other Finance teams.
The successful candidate must be able to think strategically, perform dive deep analytics on existing processes, identify re-engineering activities, and drive enterprise level new technology delivery. The successful candidate will have shown experience in past roles influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The role requires a self-starter with the ability to be both strategic and analytical in their support of new initiatives. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies that are grounded in data-based recommendations. This role also has regular interaction with senior leaders and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- 8+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
- 8+ years of solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits) experience
- 8+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
- MBA
- Experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups)
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)
- Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis