Senior Financial Analyst

Description If you are a Finance professional, Emerson has an exciting role for you! We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to work with our FP&A Center of Excellence (COE) in Pune supporting Enterprise FP&A and FP&A COE leadership. We value autonomy, self-reliance, fast action, robust thinking, and continuous improvement while maintaining a high quality of reporting accuracy and insights. In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be: • Manage the consolidation and reporting of quarterly financial planning, including the President's Operating Report (POR) – preparing reports and providing review and analysis across all Business Unit and Enterprise details. • Analyze key financial metrics and performance indicators, investigating material variances versus prior forecasts, budgets, and historical results. • Partner with business unit finance teams to support forecast submissions, provide guidance on corporate policies and procedures, and troubleshoot issues related to Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). • Collaborate with Corporate Accounting, the HFM team, and other key stakeholders to resolve reporting issues, improve data quality, and support evolving reporting requirements. • Reconcile and validate reported financial results with Corporate Accounting to ensure the integrity, consistency, and accuracy of financial data. • Analyze monthly operating results and prepare executive-level commentary summarizing key performance drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities. • Develop, maintain, and enhance management reporting using HFM Smart View, ad hoc reporting tools, and other enterprise wide reporting platforms to deliver meaningful financial insights to leadership. • Support the preparation of financial presentations, analyses, and reporting materials for Board of Directors meetings, Executive Leadership Team meetings, planning conferences, and other management reviews. • Provide analytical and reporting support for projects and presentations requested by the CFO, Finance leadership, and Strategic Planning teams. • Aggregate, analyze, and load Corporate forecasts into enterprise financial systems. • Support the transition and enhancement of reporting processes from HFM to Oracle EPM (Emerson’s new consolidation and planning system), including the migration of reporting templates and reporting capabilities. • Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting efficiency, and data accuracy. Lead process improvement initiatives through cross-functional collaboration, automation, standardization, and implementation of best practices. FP&A COE: • Manage the financial reporting process for the FP&A COE P&L and Headcount to ensure timely and accurate reporting of results. • Responsible for monthly, quarterly, and annual actual financial closes and forecast updates, meeting reporting deadlines. • Prepare FP&A COE P&L and variance analysis of actuals vs plan requiring a strong command of Cost Centre Analysis and driver identification. • Support Annual Budgeting, mid-year reviews and rolling forecast processes. • Maintain monthly headcount and invoicing out of FP&A COE to optimize utilization and charge per head per annum. • Design and prepare management reports defining key indicators and metrics and provide comprehensive variance analysis. • Drive Process optimization initiatives to create efficiency and model the desired team driven, creative thinking, process improvement culture within the COE group. • Support special projects and other ad-hoc requests. This Role will be responsible to: • Manager of Enterprise FP&A located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA • Director of FP&A COE located in Pune, India Who You Are: • You promote high visibility of shared contributions to goals. You quickly and significantly take action in constantly evolving, unexpected situations. You actively seek input from pertinent sources to make timely and well-informed decisions. You handle the risk that comes with moving forward when the outcome is not certain. For This Role, You Will Need • Finance Professional with 5 years of work experience in the FP&A Domain. • Hands on experience in ERP, MS Office, and reporting tools. • Analytical thinking ability and team player mentality. • Self-starter, suggesting and implementing improvements to the processes. • Ability to Balance stakeholders. • Situational adaptability and able to manages complexities & ambiguity. • Basic understanding of Accounting Principles and US GAAP. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart: • Relevant elevated degree or credentials. • Specific Knowledge of Oracle, Hyperion Financial Management. • Power BI or related presentation tools. • Experience introducing AI to processes. Our Culture & Commitment to You: At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.