- Understand the key trends and business levers, both forward looking and historical to drive decision-making. Analyze results and explain variance to targets. Build insightful reporting to monitor key financial metrics and drivers for use in modeling and to build accurate financial projections. Streamline our existing reporting through tools such as Excel, Power BI and Power Query.
- Drive strong partnerships with business stakeholders. Build rapport with your business partners by understanding their business performance, and ensure stakeholders’ focus on the levers and opportunities that will drive results. Communicate effectively to ensure opportunities and risks are understood and addressed in a proactive manner.
- Collaborate proactively across multiple Lumen finance and business teams to share insights, connect the dots, and drive outcomes.
What We Look For in a Candidate
Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Finance or similar field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of pertinent experience in the technology (or similar) industry
- Skilled at financial data analytics and modeling; savvy in solving complicated data and analytical challenges; curious and self-directed
- Demonstrated thought leadership that drives value creation for the business
- Effective communicator; effective at building stakeholder relationships; clearly communicates steps needed to achieve results
- Self-motivated. Manages and prioritizes multiple deadlines and deliverables. Attention to detail.
- Manages multiple projects simultaneously meeting all deadlines
Preferred
- Experience as a Finance business partner in the technology industry