Sr. Financial Analyst

Robert Half

📍New York, NY
Posted May 23, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Sr. Financial Analyst

Company

Robert Half

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4418601658

Job Description

We are looking for a Sr. Financial Analyst to support a luxury fashion organization in New York, New York on a Long-term Contract assignment. This role will play an important part in business planning and performance analysis by delivering timely reporting, insightful forecasting, and well-structured budgeting support across several regions. The ideal candidate brings strong financial acumen, comfort working with large data sets, and the ability to turn numbers into clear recommendations for leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and consolidate monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports for multiple geographic business areas.

• Build and maintain financial models that support planning activities, forecast updates, and budget development.

• Analyze operating results and explain variances between actual performance, forecasts, and budgets.

• Track key performance indicators and translate financial data into meaningful business insights for stakeholders.

• Support month-end close activities by validating data accuracy and assisting with financial statement-related reporting.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to gather inputs, align assumptions, and improve the quality of planning deliverables.

• Use SAP and advanced Excel tools to manage reporting schedules, perform analysis, and streamline recurring finance tasks.

• Demonstrated experience in financial analysis within a corporate finance, FP& A, or business planning environment.

• Strong capability in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

• Proficiency in KPI reporting and interpreting financial results for business decision-making.

• Hands-on experience with SAP and advanced Microsoft Excel functions for analysis and reporting.

• Familiarity with month-end close processes and financial statement preparation.

• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and support reporting cycles across different regions.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present findings clearly to finance and business partners.

Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.

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💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you approach building a financial model to support forecasting and budget development across multiple geographic regions?
  • 2.Can you walk me through your process for analyzing operating results and explaining variances between actuals, forecasts, and budgets?
  • 3.Describe your experience using SAP and advanced Excel tools to manage reporting schedules and streamline recurring finance tasks.
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to translate complex financial data into meaningful business insights for non-financial stakeholders.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to manage multiple deadlines across different regions during a critical reporting cycle.
  • 3.Give me an example of when you partnered with cross-functional teams to gather inputs and align assumptions for a planning deliverable.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You notice a significant, unexpected variance in the monthly management report for a key region just before you are scheduled to present it to leadership. How do you handle this?
  • 2.A cross-functional team lead is consistently late in providing their department's inputs for the forecast update, which delays your consolidation. How would you address this?

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Financial ModelingVariance AnalysisBudgeting & ForecastingSAPAdvanced ExcelKPI ReportingMonth-End CloseManagement ReportingCross-Functional CollaborationFP&AData AnalysisBusiness Insights

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