Financial Analyst III

Job Description

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Job Summary:

• The Financial Analyst III is a key member of the Finance department and will work cross functionally with other teams to analyze trends, forecast, create metrics and perform analysis to support financial and operational business decisions as well as evaluate financial investment opportunities.
• The Financial Analyst III is located in Houston, Texas and reports to the Sr Manager, Finance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.

• Deliver analysis-based insights to senior management to guide business decisions regarding proposed projects.
• Prepare, analyze and interpret complex financial and non-financial information and recommend actions to middle and senior management.
• Track issues to resolution within department and in partnership with other groups.
• Recommend changes, updates, and processes for continuous improvement in areas of expertise.
• Manage and conduct special and ad hoc analysis.
• Facilitate communication and understanding between key field finance and operations personnel and Corporate Finance.
• As requested, lead a variety of financial, operational and strategic evaluations as they relate to proposed initiatives.
• As requested, may participate in conducting major contract bid and acquisition reviews, including pro forma preparation and financial sensitivity analysis.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has no supervisory duties.

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

1. Education / Experience:
   • Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration
     • OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree a High School Diploma or GED (accredited) AND 5 years of relevant work experience. - Required
   • 5+ years of experience, with 3+ years of recent experience as a Financial Analyst utilizing data management such as BI
     • Strong analytic background of understanding data and providing insights clearly and concisely.
     • Strong understanding of data management (SQL, Essbase, ODBC connections, Access, VBA, Excel) and use of business intelligence tools(Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire, etc.)
     • Excellent communication is a key to success.

1. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

• CPA - Preferred
• Lean Six Sigma Certification - Preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required:

• Customer-focused change agent with demonstrated leadership, collaboration, communication, influencing and organization management/development skills
• Team player who can work within a matrix organization to achieve results

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the work day;
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;
• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc.) rarely;
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely;
• Normal setting for this job is: office setting/hybrid.

Benefits

At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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About Us

ABOUT WM

WM (WM.com) is North America's largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM's fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks - the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America - where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company's sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

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