at Yahoo! Inc. in Champaign, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.
A Lot About You
You are a self-starter with a love of data, analytics and operations. You work well in teams and individually. You thrived in the past and are ready to roll up your sleeves and add value to the finance organization while learning a few things along the way. You are an avid learner, proactive and problem solver. You enjoy collaborating on a whiteboard, analyzing complex datasets and presenting your solutions. You have fun, are a tech junkie and use Yahoo/AOL products.
Your Day
As a Finance Analyst on the Consumer FP&A team, you will be responsible for gathering and consolidating large amounts of data and providing business insights through meaningful visual graphs/data to tell a cohesive story.
- Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Work with large data sets and provide insights into financial performance. This includes gathering data, performing analysis, creating visualizations and utilizing your technical expertise as well as a variety of internal tools and/or collaborating with other teams as needed.
- Gather and interpret data to create accurate, meaningful and visually appealing reports/packages on daily, weekly and/or monthly basis. Communicate insightful data-supported narratives to finance and business stakeholders.
- Become an expert at using a variety of internal data systems and assist with automating and scripting repetitive tasks where needed.
- Drive best-in-class analytics to extract key insights from operational and financial trends. Also evaluate variances and/or issues, and help the business recalibrate and drive forward.
- Full P&L Analysis and Reporting. Retrieve P&L from the system ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data. Provide insights into key drivers impacting financial performance and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Work closely with system/data teams to lead standardization, automation and/or simplification of the reporting and forecast process.
- You Must Have
- 3+ years of professional experience.
- BS/MS in highly-quantitative field (Analytics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Economics) is preferred.
- B2B or advertising experience preferred.
- Answer complex business questions via data analysis and visualizations to enable business owners to make critical decisions.
- Demonstrated use of analytics and metrics to drive decisions.
- Team player in driving growth results combined with a positive attitude.
- Problem solver who never stops thinking about ways to improve.
- Experience with Hyperion is a plus.
Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html )...
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