Senior Financial Analyst
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Full description
RATP Dev USA is seeking a highly analytical Senior Financial Analyst to support Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and decision support. Reporting to the Director of Finance, this hands-on role partners with corporate and operational leaders to improve visibility into overhead spending, payroll and headcount, staffing trends, and operator efficiency across a multi-site transportation organization.This role is highly modeled and reporting oriented. The successful candidate will use masterful Microsoft Excel skills and strong financial modeling capabilities to build practical, repeatable analyses that connect workforce and operating data to financial results. The analyst will help leaders understand cost drivers, explain performance, improve forecasts, and identify opportunities to manage SG&A and labor resources more effectively.
Profile
**Financial Planning & Analysis | SG&A Support | Fort Worth,
Texas | Flexible / Hybrid**
Position Summary
RATP Dev USA is seeking a highly
analytical Senior Financial Analyst to support Selling, General &
Administrative (SG&A) financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and
decision support. Reporting to the Director of Finance, this hands-on role partners
with corporate and operational leaders to improve visibility into overhead
spending, payroll and headcount, staffing trends, and operator efficiency
across a multi-site transportation organization.
This role is highly modeled and
reporting oriented. The successful candidate will use masterful Microsoft Excel
skills and strong financial modeling capabilities to build practical,
repeatable analyses that connect workforce and operating data to financial
results. The analyst will help leaders understand cost drivers, explain
performance, improve forecasts, and identify opportunities to manage SG&A
and labor resources more effectively.
Key Responsibilities
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Own and support SG&A budgeting, forecasting,
monthly reporting, and variance analysis for corporate departments and other
assigned cost centers.
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Build and maintain detailed Excel models and
reporting tools for payroll, headcount, vacancies, new hires, terminations,
merit and wage changes, benefits, overtime, and other personnel-related costs.
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Develop payroll and headcount reporting that
reconciles workforce activity to financial results and clearly explains changes
versus budget, forecast, and prior periods.
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Create and maintain operator efficiency
reporting.
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Analyze SG&A expenses by department,
account, vendor, and business driver; identify trends, anomalies, risks,
opportunities, and areas requiring management attention.
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Partner with functional leaders and budget
owners to build forecasts, validate staffing and spending assumptions, and
improve accountability for financial performance.
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Prepare monthly management reporting and
executive-ready analysis that highlights key SG&A, payroll, headcount, and
workforce efficiency trends.
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Perform recurring and ad hoc financial analysis
to support workforce planning, organizational changes, departmental spending
decisions, cost-control initiatives, and management requests.
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Partner closely with Accounting during month-end
close to understand payroll accruals, allocations, departmental expenses, and
other items affecting SG&A reporting.
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Improve the consistency, accuracy,
documentation, and repeatability of Excel models and recurring reporting
processes.
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Identify opportunities to streamline financial
reporting and analysis while maintaining appropriate controls, validation,
confidentiality, and data quality.
Education and Experience
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Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting,
Economics, Business, or a related field required.
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Typically 4-7 years of progressively responsible
experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or a closely related
analytical role.
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Experience supporting SG&A functions,
payroll and headcount analysis, workforce planning, labor reporting, or
operating efficiency analysis is strongly preferred.
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Experience in a multi-site, transportation,
service, contract-based, or operationally complex organization is preferred.
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Demonstrated experience with budgeting,
forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and financial modeling.
Required Qualifications
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Masterful Microsoft Excel skills are required.
Candidate must be able to independently build, review, troubleshoot, and
improve complex financial models, analytical workbooks, and recurring
management reports.
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Demonstrated experience creating Excel-based
financial models and working with large financial, payroll, headcount, and
operational datasets. Candidate should be highly proficient with advanced
formulas, lookup and aggregation techniques, PivotTables, structured data,
scenario analysis, error checking, and model-audit practices.
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Strong financial modeling skills.
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Strong analytical skills with the ability to
identify business drivers, reconcile financial and operational data,
investigate variances, and convert detailed analysis into clear conclusions.
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Ability to develop and maintain accurate
payroll, headcount, SG&A, and workforce efficiency reporting with
appropriate controls and documentation.
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Excellent written and verbal communication
skills, including the ability to explain financial results and workforce cost
trends to non-finance partners and senior leadership.
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Strong business-partnering skills with the
confidence to challenge assumptions constructively, follow through on
commitments, and influence decisions without direct authority.
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High degree of financial acumen, intellectual
curiosity, attention to detail, ownership, and professional judgment.
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Ability to manage competing priorities and
recurring deadlines while maintaining accuracy, controls, and confidentiality.
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Continuous-improvement mindset with demonstrated
ability to standardize, document, and improve financial models and reporting
processes.
Preferred Technology & Analytics Skills
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Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or a
comparable EPM/FP&A platform is beneficial but not required.
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Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning
OfficeConnect is a plus, particularly for recurring financial and management
reporting.
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Proficiency with Microsoft 365, particularly
Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to prepare polished management and
executive-level reporting.
Success in This Role
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Delivers accurate and timely SG&A forecasts
and management reporting with clear explanations of major spending and staffing
drivers.
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Provides reliable payroll and headcount models
that improve visibility into workforce costs, vacancies, hiring activity,
overtime, and forecast impacts.
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Develops operator efficiency reporting that
helps management understand the relationship between staffing, labor
utilization, service activity, and cost performance.
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Creates Excel models and recurring reports that
are accurate, practical, transparent, controlled, and usable by other members
of the finance team.
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Becomes a trusted finance business partner to
corporate department leaders, operations, Accounting, and senior management.
Work Arrangement: Flexible work schedule with remote-work
capability. Onsite meetings in Fort Worth, Texas are required at the direction
of management.17