Financial Analyst

5 Months ago • 3-5 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Financial Analyst will support the monthly close process, prepare reports, and collaborate on presentations. This role involves analyzing data, identifying trends, and improving financial processes. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, and has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. They should be able to work independently and effectively across teams. The role offers opportunities to interact with management and directly impact the company’s financial health and strategic growth.

Must have:

B.S. in Finance or Accounting or equivalent
3-5 years of experience in financial planning and analysis
Expertise in excel/data modeling and financial presentation creation
Ability to interpret complex data and provide meaningful insights

Good to have:

Familiarity with Adaptive Insights or similar tools
Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Snowflake, and Tableau

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Job Details

Gigamon’s FP&A team is seeking an energetic and collaborative Financial Analyst to join our growing organization. This hybrid role is based in our Chennai office and provides flexibility with a mix of remote and onsite work. The role will report to the Senior FP&A Manager who is based in our US headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. The team is highly analytical, business-focused, and integral to Gigamon’s financial success, supporting key strategic initiatives and driving data-informed decision-making across the company. This is an individual contributor (IC) role that offers opportunities to interact with management and directly impact the company’s financial health and strategic growth by providing actionable insights to leadership.

What You’ll Do:

Support the monthly close process in concert with accounting counterparts.
Prepare headcount and expense reporting, reconciliations and forecasting.
Prepare monthly budget variance reports
Create and maintain standard financial reports in the financial planning tool and prepare monthly expense and functional metrics packages, including creating data visualization, for internal management.
Collaborate on quarterly Board of Directors presentations and key business metrics reporting.
Partner cross-functionally with internal teams to identify trends, resolve issues, and improve financial processes.
Upload and reconcile data from the G/L to the financial planning tool.

What You’ve Done:

B.S. in Finance or Accounting or equivalent
3–5 years of experience in a financial planning and analysis role, ideally for a multinational corporation.
Expertise in excel/data modeling, data mining, and financial presentation creation.
Familiarity with Adaptive Insights (or similar financial planning tool), Microsoft Dynamics 365, Snowflake and Tableau is highly desirable.
An analytical thinker with a proven ability to interpret complex data and provide meaningful insights.

Who You Are:

The ideal candidate is organized and detail-oriented with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. You are a self-starter with a positive attitude, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and effectively across teams and regions. You bring initiative, curiosity, creativity, and a solutions-focused mindset, making you a key contributor to the success of the FP&A team. You thrive working with large data sets and calculating trends and metrics from it. Familiarity with financial planning tools and a drive for continuous improvement are valuable assets.

We are committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive Gigamon. As an equal opportunity employer all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability.

Gigamon fosters a business culture dedicated to equitable hiring. If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.