Financial Analyst

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Are you passionate about turning data into actionable insights? In this role, you'll be instrumental in shaping our financial understanding and strategy. You'll get to:

• Developing and managing financial reports: Creating new analyses and maintaining existing ones utilizing SAP BPC/Business Warehouse/Analysis for Office, as well as other systems

• Drive reporting excellence: Create and maintain impactful reports in Power BI to analyze and present financial and operating metrics, ensuring they're accurate, repeatable, and efficient

• Influence decision-making: Provide essential analysis of product line sales, gross margins, operating expenses, capital expenditures, and forecasts, directly supporting strategic and operational choices.

• Build financial foresight: Utilize various business reports and metrics to evaluate, interpret, and provide critical information that supports strategic and operating decisions. Develop financial models that inform both divisional and corporate planning.

• Shape future financial plans: Play a key role in the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting cycles.

• Be a trusted partner: Collaborate closely with the Finance Director and field managers to understand historical financial results and trends, validate forecast assumptions, and support Power BI reporting requirements.

This position also requires a commitment to upholding our Code of Conduct and all regulatory standards.

• Possess exceptionally strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of how to leverage data and computer tools to enhance divisional efficiency and effectiveness.

• You should be team-oriented with a drive for continuous improvement. This role demands exceptional critical thinking, empowering you to question assumptions, validate data, spot patterns and anomalies, pinpoint root causes, and ultimately deliver sound recommendations

• Work autonomously, using sound judgment to tackle both routine and complex challenges, but knowing when to seek help, review or validation.

• Ability to effectively communicate financial information and conclusions to various stakeholders, including management, the Hub, and the Group

• Adept at managing multiple priorities, meeting critical deadlines, and working independently to resolve issues.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships across all organizational levels.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace (e.g., Excel, Sheets, Docs, Slides, Gmail), SAP products (BPC/Business Warehouse/Analysis for Office etc.), Power BI, knowledge of other data warehouse products

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance with a strong emphasis on quantitative/analytical coursework, coupled with relevant work experience; MBA and/or CPA a plus

• Alternatively, a technical degree (e.g., engineering, mathematics) with a secondary concentration in business/finance or related work experience will also be considered.

• 3+ years of relevant finance experience and/or operational analysis positions with increasing responsibilities

• Experience with SAP, BW, BPC, and Power BI Preferred

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company's written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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