Senior Financial BI Analyst

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Location: USA – Remote

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. This role is crucial to our success, as it involves building financial models and reporting packages, data analytics, and creating executive visualizations using Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data modeling and architecture, and consolidation reporting. They should understand FP&A’s role in the business, the ability to understand a channel business model, and the business drivers in the fast-paced cybersecurity industry. The perfect candidate will have experience with and the ability to drive processes and efficiencies.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Business Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of financial data, trends, and performance metrics to provide strategic planning and actionable insights for decision-making by the FP&A team and executive leadership.
2. Data Modeling and Architecture: Design, develop, and maintain robust data models and architectures and manage data warehouse that supports FP&A activities, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and accessibility.
3. Executive Visualization: Create visually compelling and informative dashboards, reports, and presentations using Power BI and Excel to effectively communicate financial insights and performance metrics to executive stakeholders.
4. Process Efficiencies: Identify and address business issues and opportunities to streamline FP&A processes through automation, optimization, and standardization, leveraging technology and best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
5. Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Finance, Sales, Operations, and IT, to understand business requirements, gather data inputs, and ensure alignment of BI solutions with organizational goals and objectives.
6. Strategic Planning: Contribute to the strategic planning process by providing insights and recommendations based on financial analysis, market trends, and business performance metrics.
7. Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in BI, FP&A, and related fields, continuously seeking opportunities for innovation and improvement.

Key Duties:

• Provide operational support for the annual corporate planning and budgeting process, development of presentation materials and preparation of associated analysis.
• Identify, obtain and compile data for use in scorecards and budgetary analyses working with coordinators and leaders of all functional areas.
• Collect, analyze, and report business data
• Use large data sets to define KPIs and generate reports
• Build and maintain dashboards and other reporting tools to track data

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, FP&A, or related roles, focusing on financial analysis and reporting.
• Must be at an advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skill level.
• Must have advanced skills with reporting/data warehouse tools such as Power BI, Snowflake, Essbase, or other similar systems.
• High level of competencies and understanding of profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow management, general finance and budgeting.
• Ability to work under pressure and with competing priorities.
• Sense of urgency and focus on results.
• High energy level, intellectual curiosity, and a strong desire to learn.
• Excellent problem solving, project management, and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data sets, identify trends, and extract actionable insights.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
• Proven track record of driving process efficiencies and delivering tangible business results through BI solutions and initiatives.
• Demonstrated understanding of FP&A processes, functions, and objectives within an organizational context.
• Ability to work effectively independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem solving abilities, focusing on driving innovation and continuous improvement.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Remote, based in the US
• Opportunities for professional growth, development, and direct access to and ability to work with CFO and other Finance Vice Presidents
• Opportunity to work on M&A deals
• Fun and collaborative work environment
• Opportunity to make a significant impact on the organization’s success

If you meet the qualifications and are excited about the opportunity to lead Modeling initiatives within an FP&A context, we encourage you to apply and join our team!

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We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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