Financial Analyst

**Job Summary**
- This role is responsible for conducting moderately complex financial analysis tailored to specific functions or business units, offering crucial analytics to drive key decision making. The role ensures adherence to reporting standards, collaborates with department heads on budgets and long-term plans, and produces regular and ad-hoc financial reports for stakeholders. The role also fosters a knowledge management culture, utilizing expertise to address diverse challenges within the framework of company policies and procedures.

**What a Financial Analyst does at HP**:

- Performs moderately complex financial analysis that is either transactional or analytical in nature, for specific functions or business units.
- Addresses complex business issues and provides valuable analytics to support key business initiatives.
- Conducts appropriate financial analysis to determine trends, observe relationships and develop ratios used in forecast models.
- Acquires a comprehensive understanding of the organization's financial processes and gains proficient knowledge of the company's operations and business.
- Establishes and maintains relationships with business leaders to ensure fulfillment of financial analyses objectives.
- Ensures compliance with reporting standards and corporate policies and the integrity of external and internal reporting.
- Collaborates with department heads to develop annual budgets and long-term financial plans.
- Generates regular and ad-hoc financial reports for management, executives, and other stakeholders.
- Develops conclusions, recommendations, and written reports, contributing proactively through research and data analysis support, and sharing knowledge to foster a knowledge management culture.

**Education & Experience** Recommended**
- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically has 2-4 years of work experience, preferably in financial management, internal audit, accounting, or a related field or an advanced degree with little or no work experience.

**Preferred Certifications**
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Certified Financial Analyst (CFA)

**Knowledge & Skills**
- Accounting
- Auditing
- Automation
- Corporate Finance
- Data Analysis
- Economics
- Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Planning
- Financial Services
- Financial Statements
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Internal Controls
- Investments
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Process Improvement
- Profit And Loss (P&L) Management
- SAP Applications
- Variance Analysis

**Cross-Org Skills**
- Effective Communication
- Results Orientation
- Learning Agility
- Digital Fluency
- Customer Centricity

**Impact & Scope**
- Impacts immediate team and acts as an informed team member providing analysis of information and limited project direction input.

**Complexity**
- Responds to routine issues within established guidelines.

**Disclaimer**
- Sustainable impact is HP’s commitment to create positive, lasting change for the planet, its people, and our communities. This serves as a guiding principle for delivering on our corporate vision - to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere._
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