Riga, LV
Finance Analyst
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Position overview
We are looking for a Finance Analyst who will partner with global and regional SG&A functions to provide accurate financial reporting, forward-looking insights, and identify sustainable cost savings and productivity improvement opportunities.
In this role, you will be responsible for managing spend reviews, financial forecasts, and annual budgeting processes, while owning and supporting assigned Power BI reports and dashboards. You will collaborate closely with IT project owners and Accounting teams to ensure proper project accounting, monitor forecast-to-complete performance, and track financial benefits and ongoing costs against approved business cases.
Responsibilities
- Partner with SG&A leaders to review spending, explain variances, identify cost-saving opportunities, and monitor agreed actions.
- Support forecasting and budgeting activities by analyzing actuals, commitments, and assumptions, while highlighting risks and recommending corrective actions.
- Monitor travel spend and proactively identify potential budget overruns.
- Act as a finance business partner for IT, supporting project accounting, cost tracking, capitalization assessments, and benefit realization.
- Track project performance against budgets and business cases, maintain forecast-to-complete projections, and highlight deviations.
- Independently analyze spending trends, challenge assumptions, and recommend actions to improve financial performance.
- Escalate significant financial risks, budget overruns, and business case deviations to relevant stakeholders.
- Own or support Power BI reports and dashboards, ensuring accurate reporting, variance analysis, and increased reporting automation.
- Promote data quality, financial controls, standardized reporting, and self-service analytics across functions and regions.
Required skills and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in management accounting or financial analysis.
- Strong knowledge of cost analysis,budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and project financial tracking.
- Ability to challenge assumptions, provide data-driven recommendations, and communicate financial risks effectively.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Experience with ERP systems, financial reporting tools, and core accounting principles, including accruals and capitalization.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial modeling.
- Excellent English communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across Finance, Accounting, IT, and business functions.
We offer
- Monthly gross salary from 2100 EUR, depending on skills and experience.
- Partially working from home option.
- Transportation allowance.
- Health, accident and critical illness insurance.
- Annual bonus program and special recognition awards.
- Excellent working conditions in modern environment.
- An international exposure in a cross-cultural community.
- Training, great opportunities to grow and develop your career nationally and internationally.
- Company’s social events.
- Birthday holiday.
Please be informed that allnex conducts background checks as part of our hiring process. We are proud to offer an international working experience with a tight-knit network of employees, making it easy to connect and learn from people all across our different functions. On top of that we are a truly innovative company with a strong team spirit, openness to new ideas, and great opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Equal Employment Opportunity
allnex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an environment where all colleagues contribute for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our communities.
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