Senior Financial Analyst Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for senior financial analyst, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for analysis using MS Excel, Hyperion or other reporting tools.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience in a multi-product business preferably international with both short and long term customer contracts
• Experience in business planning, budgeting and forecasting, and management reporting
• Pricing, market and competitor insight
• Strong understanding of financial and sales systems
• Self-motivator, able to work under pressure, multi-task and focus on deadlines
• Results orientated and accurate to ensure quality and “first time right” approach
• Commercially astute, hands on and a capable organizer
• Excellent knowledge of Hyperion Planning and SAP BI

In response to your job posting for senior financial analyst, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for detailed financial analysis of multi-entity sector using HFM SmartView reports for excel.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Familiarity with MS Dynamics preferred
• Einstein of MS office applications (specifically Excel and Powerpoint)
• Strong financial statement comprehension with knowledge of cash flow and balance sheet forecasting in addition to P&L
• Previous experience with Point of Sale systems such as Opera, Infogenesis, and NSB preferred
• Proven critical thinking skills in areas of analysis, planning and strategic insight
• Requires working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
• Experience in as a financial / data mining analyst in software, SaaS, or other high technology business
• Passion for delivering accurate business recommendations by unearthing deep insights from data

I would like to submit my application for the senior financial analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for monthly F/S in Excel format with analysis and updates the fiscal year PL forecast.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Collect and verify sales data, and calculate sales commission for monthly accrual and quarterly pay-out
• Customer rebate discount management, calculate the rebate discount for eligible customers, and monthly monitor and analyze the actual rebate discount spending
• Assist the finance manager in quarterly forecast for rebate discount forecasting
• Monthly sales analysis on customer level, identify opportunities or problems from data analysis
• Assist sales management to set quarterly target for sellers based on actual achievement analysis and customer potential analysis
• Maintain, improve current sales reports, and develop new reports based on actual needs
• Implement and work with a Business Intelligence Tool and Dashboard reports, such as customer P&L, customer contribution, gross profit
• Other assigned jobs

Please consider me for the senior financial analyst opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for solutions for new needs, using excel / macros / pivots.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Strong work ethic that takes ownership of assigned areas and is capable ofperforming a variety of time sensitive tasks
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)and able to learn and other software applications
• Exert level Excel, PowerPoint and Essbase/Smart View, BI skills
• BA in Financial, Accounting, Business or related field
• Leadership and/or previous management experience
• Experience with large ERP systems such as Hyperion, Oracle, or SAP
• Retail industry experience greatly preferred
• Experience in either working independently in a satellite location for a large multi-national organisation or acting as the sole finance operational analyst for a small to medium sized organisation

I would like to submit my application for the senior financial analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for specialized Excel support by working on spreadsheets and providing output.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Moderate use of SQL and MySQL database, experience in writing SQL queries
• Experience using business models, budget comparisons, and forecasting
• Team focused with strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Fluent English and German, working knowledge of French a benefit
• Strong understanding of accounting principles (US GAAP, IFRS, Swiss CO), financial reporting, consolidation and analysis
• Requires disciplined individual able to organize, operate and deliver independently on multiple projects without day to day supervision
• Requires understanding of all accounting and financial transactions to include cost review, reconciliations of accounts, and adjustments
• Multi-tasker with strong communication and interpersonal skills