The Goldman Sachs Group Looking for Platform Solutions, GreenSky Business FP&A Associate, Atlanta at Atlanta, GA  Full Time

GreenSky is one of the fastest growing Financial Technology companies in America. We make it easy for businesses of all sizes to offer credit to their customers with a fast and paperless solution. With billions of dollars in loans and hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers, we are quickly changing the consumer credit marketplace. We have developed a highly scalable loan origination and servicing platform and unique loan origination tools to deliver a differentiated level of service to our multiple stakeholders, including bank partners, merchant and retailer channel partners, consumers, and borrowers.

The Financial Analyst is expected to collaborate closely with Finance and Business Leaders in providing vital financial planning and other FP&A related requests.

The Financial Analyst will support the core FP&A processes for the assigned business unit and/or assigned P&L lines and will support consolidation efforts. The role is expected to collaborate closely with the FP&A team and Business Leaders in providing vital Financial Intelligence and Partnership.

Job Duties:

• Creates insightful and action generating variance analysis against budget/forecast and prior period results for assigned business unit, P&L lines and metrics. To that objective, diligently pursues root cause analysis on own initiative.
• Creates and maintains forecasts for assigned business unit, P&L lines and metrics.
• Provide timely, detailed and meaningful insights and visibility on business performance to finance and business leadership on a regular and ad-hoc basis.
• Maintains dialog with accounting, finance and business leadership to identify and evaluate evolving business issues and financial results.
• Initiates and supports optimization strategies for assigned P&L lines.
• Supports business case evaluation and other business decision making
• Provides support to accounting team during monthly close cycles and as needed.
• Identify inconsistencies in financial data and initiates and manages the appropriate corrective actions.
• Performs various other special projects and analysis as assigned.
• Meets timelines for various deliverables while maintaining excellent quality of work product.

Required skills:

• The ideal candidate would have 2-6 years of high-quality FP&A experience, including internship experience. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with high energy and unyielding intellectual curiosity.
• Advanced financial modelling skills are required. The successful candidate must possess superior intelligence with a record of increasing responsibilities and success.
• Knowledge of Excel, Workday, Essbase or another accounting system, Reporting Automation, Contemporary database/SQL/Query, financial modelling, and business intelligence software modules such as Tableau, preferred.
• Undergraduate degree in business, finance, accounting, math or a related field with a distinguished academic record required.

Job Competencies:

• Financial Planning & Analysis Capabilities: Leading Candidates must possess FP&A or accounting experience, including the ability to develop and maintain financial projections and budgets.
• Financial Modeling and Data Capabilities: Financial modeling skills, pivot tables, and other contemporary modeling, automation and excel techniques.
• Problem Solving & Analytical Orientation: Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills that are used to track, analyze, interpret, and report key historical and projected operating metrics, trends, and financial results. Able to take “deep dive” into the details of the business while staying focused on the big picture. Takes a systematic, structured view of situations, deconstructing them into their fundamental elements. Insists on proof in data and peels back layers to understand root causes.
• Results Oriented: Results oriented, including the capacity to both think strategically and execute tactically, embodying a blend of technical, creative, business and communications skills.
• Effective Communication and Decision Making: Highly articulate and able to convey important messages in a clear and compelling manner. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

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