Financial Analyst at Equifax Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

The Financial Analyst will play a lead role in building relationships with key business owners and driving revenue analysis and insights. Working closely with Finance, Sales, Technology, and Operations leaders, you will consult cross-functionally to build and present financial models, forecasts, and budgets.
What you'll do:

• Partner with business unit leadership to help achieve financial targets, drive revenue growth, and make informed business decisions
• Integral participation in financial modeling and decision support for 3 year strategic growth plan, annual budget, and monthly forecasting
• Understand forecast and budget variances to ensure accuracy in financial statements and provide summarized results of performance to business partners
• Analyze economic trends to derive a greater understanding of the drivers of historical business performance and incorporate in forecasting
• Coordinate with accounting during close cycle to ensure actual results, accruals, and other adjustments are correct
• Interpret complex financial and operational data and create data visualizations to drive new insights
• Support the Employer Services business unit navigating HR, Compliance, Tax and Benefits products within Equifax Workforce Solutions

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration
• 2-5 years working in a related capacity, preferably involving budgeting, financial planning and variance analysis

• Must have strong analytical (quantitative as well as qualitative) skills including prior experience involving budgeting, financial planning, variance analysis and financial model building. Attention to detail is critical.
• Must have solid understanding of accounting principles including accruals, capitalization, P&L statements, etc. with the ability to interpret data and draw out insights through data visualizations
• Must possess excellent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable interacting with senior-level management
• Must be self-motivated with strong process improvement mentality and ability to streamline function and have a passion to learn and grow
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is required, Hyperion (HFM and Planning), Tableau, Oracle, Google, and SQL are a plus

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