Strategic Finance Analyst

Flexton is a growing IT services and staffing company serving some of the world's most renowned and Fortune-listed companies across industries such as eCommerce, HighTech, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare. With a global presence spanning the US, Canada, Europe, Colombia, Mexico, and India, Flexton offers its clients cost-effective solutions through onsite, offshore, and nearshore models. Flexton provides its employees with opportunities for growth, meaningful work, and continuous learning!

Strategic Finance Analyst

Duration: 12 Months
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (San Francisco / New York) | Remote (Other locations)
Open Positions: 2

Job Overview

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Analyst to support core financial operations within the Strategic Finance Centre of Excellence (COE).

This role focuses on accruals, headcount forecasting and position management, and finance master data management (MDM) using Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM).

The analyst will help ensure accurate and timely financial processes while maintaining the master data and hierarchies that support financial planning and analysis (FP&A), budgeting, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop, improve, and maintain complex financial models.

• Execute accrual and reclassification processes, validate expense inputs and supporting documentation, and reconcile records to support accurate and timely financial close.

• Support headcount forecasting and position management by maintaining planning inputs and tracking hiring, attrition, and internal movements.

• Analyze headcount and expense variances, identify discrepancies, and support forecast updates and financial planning consolidations.

• Process finance master data requests in Oracle EDM, including validation, approved changes, verification, and documentation.

• Support validation and downstream impact assessments for new departments, department name changes, and hierarchy changes.

• Maintain additional finance master data, including product codes, legal entities, GL accounts, and source members.

• Audit and reconcile financial models, accrual records, headcount inputs, and master data.

• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and system stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies.

• Establish and document repeatable processes, validation checks, and controls for accruals, headcount forecasting, and EDM execution.

• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on financial results, headcount forecasts, and master data request status.

• Provide strategic and ad hoc financial analysis to support business decisions.

• Ensure reporting systems and source data are accurate and reconciled, with consistent cost center, department, and ownership mappings.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience.

• Advanced Excel modeling skills.

• Hands-on experience with accruals, headcount forecasting, or finance master data management, including data validation and reconciliation.

• Experience working with financial planning, accounting, or enterprise master data systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM), including:

  • Master data request validation, attribute maintenance, and approved change execution.

  • Cost center and department structures, ownership attributes, and hierarchy mappings.

  • Downstream impact assessments, change verification, and traceable change records.

  • Finance dimensions and mappings supporting FP&A, budgeting, and reporting.

• Experience supporting headcount forecasting, position management, and workforce data reconciliation.

• Familiarity with Oracle EPM / EBS, Workday, and related financial planning or accounting systems.

• Experience maintaining finance master data and resolving mapping discrepancies.

• Strong understanding of accruals, expense timing, reclassifications, and financial close processes.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Experience documenting finance processes, validation controls, and master data change procedures.

• Understanding of segregation of duties.