Red Hat jobs - Financial Analyst

Job Summary

The Red Hat Global Bid Desk (GBD) Business Finance team is looking for a Financial Analyst to join us in Pune, India. In this role, you will focus primarily on facilitating Finance Planning and Analytics (FP&A) to help leadership guide business decisions. You will interact frequently with key leadership from across the globe. This will provide you with the opportunity to sharpen your quantitative analysis skills and to develop well-rounded business insight through working with senior leadership on impactful and business critical projects. Your success as a Financial Analyst will depend on your ability to collaborate with and shape your stakeholders to take action on intelligence and recommendations that you provide in this role.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Develop analyses, key performance indicator (KPI) metrics, and presentations that will provide insight and direction to Sales and Services leadership
• Review financial results at the end of each month and quarter
• Provide forecast and analytics that will improve the leadership team's ability to guide the business and surpass targets
• Provide an explanation for variances of actual to budget and comparative quarters
• Coordinate with other finance functions to consolidate data for reporting purposes
• Create financial models and dashboards with analysis on investment and expenses
• Work with various business functions to review annual financial targets or goals
• Develop an understanding of Red Hat's global business model to identify financial trends and provide insights using analytical methods
• Effectively collaborate with other business support teams like operations, marketing, and global finance on deliverables as needed
• Prepare and deliver visualizations and internal presentations that translate analytic insights into tangible, actionable solutions for business partners to implement
• Provide high quality automation of existing reports and business review decks
• Foster collaboration among data engineers, IT, and other business groups to ensure that data is accessible to FP&A team
• Work extended hours during quarter or year-end periods when required, may include weekends
• Develop an understanding of Red Hat's workflows and a deep understanding of our policies
• Partner with on-shore global and geo stakeholders and teams on deliverables and special projects
• Continuously look for ways to improve productivity or the level of services provided to the business
  
  

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, statistics, or other quantitative field; MBA is a plus
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship management skills
• 4+ years of relevant strategy, finance, analytics, budgeting, forecasting, or consulting experience
• Solid spreadsheet skills with proven experience in managing large data sets, performing analysis, and building user-friendly models
• Practical experience with Microsoft Excel and data visualization skills
• Knowledge of at least one enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, preferably Oracle
• Experience with Hyperion, including Essbase, or Smartview
• Experience with analytical tools like QlikView, Tableau, or any other business intelligence (BI) visualization tool
• Ready to learn new technologies and show attitude towards continuous development
• Ability to work both on your own and collaboratively