FP&A Analyst

Description:

Job Summary:

The FP&A Analyst serves as a member of the Finance Department and will report directly to the Senior Vice President, Finance. The FP&A Analyst supports the Senior Vice President, Finance in providing timely analysis and insight to support strategic business decisions, is responsible for the management of annual budget process, providing explanation of variances to budget/prior year and updating the monthly financial forecasts for Hope Media Group. The role also supports the larger organization in financial and strategic decision making by being an active and ready business partner to all management and functional budget managers.

Essential Functions:

Financial Analysis & Forecasting

• Strategic business partner to Senior Vice President, Finance, providing critical financial information to make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations
• Provide analytical support to the Senior Vice President, Finance, COO and other organizational leaders for key decisions pertaining to strategic initiatives and operational execution as they relate to budget management, forecasting needs and the securing of funds
• Develop predictive models and activity-based financial analyses to properly plan for the future of the organization including cost benefit analysis for on-going operations and growth opportunities
• Maintain, enhance, and update the financial forecasting models used in:
• Monthly forecasting and board report presentation
• Annual budget process
• Study trends in order to identify potential impact to the organization (economic, legislative, industry, etc.)
• Develop and maintain cash flow forecasting/planning to ensure the availability of funds as they are needed
• Prepare monthly financial reports for the Management and Board which includes drafting comments and collecting, analyzing and summarizing financial data and trends
• Support the Corporate Partnership Program by managing valuation information used. Ensure information is current and relevant to meet business needs.
• Support the development and analysis of short-term and long-range cash flow forecasts for the ministry, capital campaigns and building projects
• Any other duties as assigned

Budget Management:

• Facilitate the annual budget process for the ministry and ensure timely completion
• Develop BOD summary budget presentations and narratives
• Serve as a budget partner to help budget managers and their Senior Leaders with the annual budget process; assist budget managers with monitoring and managing their budgets/forecasts
• Partner with budget managers regularly to understand budget vs actual variances and use information to update impacted forecasts as necessary
• Maintain budget detail in accounting software including proposing enhancements for better reporting and tracking.
• Administer and maintain the budget system, including building reports and creating new scenarios
• Ensure accurate and detail capital expenditure budgeting, forecasting and reporting
• Maintain and enhance the ministry contribution model using it to derive budgeted and forecasted contribution revenue

Reporting & Analysis:

• Support the Fundraising efforts of the organization through reporting, analysis and target setting
• Report against restricted funds and unallocated funds
• Report project, brand and consolidated P&Ls and speak into the implications to the organization
• Facilitate allocation of funds to ensure optimal capital allocation via investment committee facilitation, support and analysis
• Key Performance Analysis statistical tracking, reporting and analysis
• Develop economic valuation and analytical models to support decision making and planning activities

Project/Ad Hoc Assignments:

• Contribute to department and organization special projects as assigned.
• This includes but is not limited to the monitoring and ensuring compliance to project budgets, informing Accounting of project coding and communicating to key stakeholders of budget status.

Demonstrated Faith:

• Pray for coworkers in team meetings
• Lead prayer in large group settings as needed
• Pray for donors when called upon to do so
• Use Christian principles to work through conflict as outlined by the Culture tool kit
• Participate in ministry wide Christian bible studies
• Attend weekly Staff Gatherings for prayer and devotions

Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting
• Master’s in Accounting, Finance or MBA Degree beneficial

Experience:

• 1-3 years Finance, Budget and/or Accounting experience, non-profit or government experience useful

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of non-profit regulations (Section 501(c)3 organizations), preferred
• Ability to multi-task
• Strong attention to detail to ensure financial accuracy
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Proactive, creative and enthusiastic, team player
• Strong administrative and organizational skills
• Effective writing skills and excellent grammatical usage and style
• Excellent interpersonal skill
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Power Point, Access and Google tool applications
• PowerBI proficiency preferred
• Has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Spiritually grounded and working knowledge of scripture
• Must be an active member of a Bible believing local church

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None.

Working Conditions and Environment

Travel:

• As needed, for conferences and seminars.

Nights/Weekends/Holidays:

• Occasionally

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical Activity may include Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.