**Position**:
Financial Analyst Supply Chain
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow Electronics guides innovation forward for over 220,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers. With 2022 sales of $37 billion, Arrow develops technology solutions that improve business and daily life. The company maintains 228 locations worldwide with over 90 locations served.
A Fortune 109 company with 22,000 employees worldwide, Arrow brings technology solutions to a breadth of markets, including telecommunications, information systems, transportation, medical, industrial, and consumer electronics. Arrow provides specialized services and expertise across the entire product lifecycle. Arrow does this by connecting customers to the right technology at the right place,
time, and price. Arrow provides extraordinary value to customers and suppliers - the best technology companies in the world - and connects them through the company's industry-leading services.
Arrow Electronics is looking for an experienced finance professional to join our team in Guadalajara!
The Sr. Financial Analyst will work with the global Supply Chain organization to support multiple groups within the organization to provide global financial reporting and analysis including annual planning, monthly forecasting, P&L consolidation and reporting with an annual spend of $200M+. This position reports to the Sr. Supply Chain Finance Manager and is a key business partner to our Director & VP level operations leaders in managing their P&Ls and budgets. The role will provide analysis of the organization's financial performance against plan and forecast, perform monthly budget variance analysis and will prepare financial reports, charts, and other project analytics as necessary.
This role is expected to create comprehensive dashboards and portfolio level analytics that track, identify trends and root causes and enable senior level leaders to make informed decisions to drive improved financial and operational performance. In addition, the Senior Financial Analyst will assist in design and implementation of new global processes.
Partnering with business units to resolve issues and providing regular updates to company executives on financial performance will require excellent communication and collaboration skills. Other success factors for this role include being comfortable with change, ability to multi-task, being resourceful and having a global mindset.
**What you'll be doing**:
- Reporting: Produces business unit reports indicating analysis and understanding of business trends, offering useful business insights/conclusions. Consolidates financials from regions and business units to put together a complete picture of financial results. High visibility role presenting financial results to business leaders monthly.
- Planning and Forecasting: Understand the various elements of the P & L and B/S and their relationship and provide detailed analysis of the data to the business unit leaders. Leads the forecasting process across all regions and business units. Consolidates the forecast to be used in monthly reporting.
- P & L Analysis: Conducts independent analysis and interpretation of the business unit P & L and its components when requested by Finance leadership or Business.
- Develop monthly and quarterly project budgets and forecasts, conduct variance analysis, identify drivers and trends that result in actionable decision making
- Prepare detailed analysis and data models that clearly identify main business drivers and trends that result in actionable decision making.
- Executive Meeting Prep and Leadership: Assist in the preparation of Executive
- level presentations and meetings, such as quarterly business reviews and monthly spend reviews, and engage with Senior leadership in understanding and representing the financial metrics and results.
- Projects: Works on projects assigned by manager and as necessitated by business partners. Uses high analytical skills to put together accurate and detailed analysis.
- Business Partnering: Establishes relationships with business partners around the world to facilitate in the accurate collection of monthly financial data and understanding business trends.
- Increases team's productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools and end-to-end process optimization
**What are we looking for?**
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent experiences
- Full command of Business English conversational level
- 5+ years of experience in a large company working in Finance and/or Accounting function responsible for advanced analytical work
- Ability to consistently produce high quality analysis within tight deadlines by prioritizing, identifying roadblocks, and collaborating with colleagues and managements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving s