Description:
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
Position Description
Zayo is seeking a Finance Associate to join our local Sustainability, Strategy and Finance team. The team provides organizational stability and cohesion by providing the business with performance analysis, scenario analyses, commercial approvals, operating reviews and guidance/audit on day to day business activities. The candidate must possess strong analytical skills and demonstrable modeling and data management experience. This role is designed to support career growth and will expose the individual to all functional areas of a company. If you enjoy a challenge, take pride in your work and are a proven “team-player”, this is the career opportunity you are looking for.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain in-depth analysis and reporting of financial and business performance
- Prepare monthly and quarterly operating reports
- Research operational and business changes to improve financial performance
- Assists the close and forecast cycles with local knowledge, research and insights
- Act as a process and finance expert for the entire organization and all functions to ensure the organization is educated on and aligned to goals and objectives
- Can communicate and train others on a business proposition or organizational philosophy
- Experience translate contractual provisions and complex business transactions into financial and accounting figures
- Own modeling and business case analysis expertise for commercial and inorganic activities including: building and maintaining models, education, and ensuring that investment returns are meeting expectation
- Maintain data fidelity in our financial databases
- Can teach and train financial and accounting principles to non-finance and non-accounting staff
- Review the capital spend expectations of the business and work with commercial, business development and operational staff to provide forecasting and performance insights
- Provides ad hoc support to solve complex problems
- Other financial and operational analysis and duties as needed
- Requires being a liaison with US-based staff; non-standard hours may be required on occasion
Qualifications
- Telecommunications experience given preference, but not required
- Experienced professional of 4 years or more
- Strong English required, preference given to multilingual candidates
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting and analytical skills: ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
- Advanced knowledge of spreadsheets and presentation applications
- Professional demeanor
- Ability to manage a high-volume workload efficiently and effectively
- Attention to detail is a must
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work extended hours (some evenings and weekends, when necessary) and achieve results in a deadline driven environment
- Must be self-motivated