Role Description
The Senior Financial Analyst, supporting the Finance and Legal orgs, is a cross-functional role acting as the primary business partner for these teams - driving budgeting, forecasting, headcount management and expense tracking. The ideal candidate has a strong attention to detail, while still being able to understand the big picture, a penchant for process improvement, and a desire to learn and grow.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day business partnering support for the Finance and Legal Teams, including Budget management and spend approval, monthly variance reporting, and strategic guidance to encourage budget utilization and accuracy.
- Drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast for the Finance and Legal Teams — gathering budget inputs and helping budget owners meet their strategic goals within their budget envelope.
- Produce accruals for the Finance and Legal Teams on a monthly basis.
- Support ad-hoc FP&A projects and deliverables, including support of short- and long-range Planning cycles.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive experience in a financial analyst role
- Robust analytical and modeling skills with a strong attention to detail
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, month end close and variance analysis; either through direct business partnership experience or experience with these responsibilities from a corporate consolidation perspective
- Experience or understand of accruals
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with or a strong understanding of accruals.
- Knowledge of financial systems, such as Oracle
- Experience supporting G&A orgs (General and Admin: Finance, Legal, HR)
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$112,900—$152,700 USD
US Zone 3
$100,300—$135,700 USD
Dropbox Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Boston, MA, United States
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