Senior Financial Analyst

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.

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 * Own and support SG&A budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, and variance analysis for corporate departments and other assigned cost centers. * 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.

* Develop payroll and headcount reporting that reconciles workforce activity to financial results and clearly explains changes versus budget, forecast, and prior periods.

* Create and maintain operator efficiency reporting.

* Analyze SG&A expenses by department, account, vendor, and business driver; identify trends, anomalies, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management attention.

* Partner with functional leaders and budget owners to build forecasts, validate staffing and spending assumptions, and improve accountability for financial performance.

* Prepare monthly management reporting and executive-ready analysis that highlights key SG&A, payroll, headcount, and workforce efficiency trends.

* Perform recurring and ad hoc financial analysis to support workforce planning, organizational changes, departmental spending decisions, cost-control initiatives, and management requests.

* Partner closely with Accounting during month-end close to understand payroll accruals, allocations, departmental expenses, and other items affecting SG&A reporting.

* Improve the consistency, accuracy, documentation, and repeatability of Excel models and recurring reporting processes.

* Identify opportunities to streamline financial reporting and analysis while maintaining appropriate controls, validation, confidentiality, and data quality.

Education and Experience * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required. * Typically 4-7 years of progressively responsible experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or a closely related analytical role.

* Experience supporting SG&A functions, payroll and headcount analysis, workforce planning, labor reporting, or operating efficiency analysis is strongly preferred.

* Experience in a multi-site, transportation, service, contract-based, or operationally complex organization is preferred.

* Demonstrated experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and financial modeling.

Required Qualifications * 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. * 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.

* Strong financial modeling skills.

* Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify business drivers, reconcile financial and operational data, investigate variances, and convert detailed analysis into clear conclusions.

* Ability to develop and maintain accurate payroll, headcount, SG&A, and workforce efficiency reporting with appropriate controls and documentation.

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial results and workforce cost trends to non-finance partners and senior leadership.

* Strong business-partnering skills with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively, follow through on commitments, and influence decisions without direct authority.

* High degree of financial acumen, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, ownership, and professional judgment.

* Ability to manage competing priorities and recurring deadlines while maintaining accuracy, controls, and confidentiality.

* Continuous-improvement mindset with demonstrated ability to standardize, document, and improve financial models and reporting processes.

Preferred Technology & Analytics Skills * Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning or a comparable EPM/FP&A platform is beneficial but not required. * Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning OfficeConnect is a plus, particularly for recurring financial and management reporting.

* Proficiency with Microsoft 365, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to prepare polished management and executive-level reporting.

Success in This Role * Delivers accurate and timely SG&A forecasts and management reporting with clear explanations of major spending and staffing drivers. * Provides reliable payroll and headcount models that improve visibility into workforce costs, vacancies, hiring activity, overtime, and forecast impacts.

* Develops operator efficiency reporting that helps management understand the relationship between staffing, labor utilization, service activity, and cost performance.

* Creates Excel models and recurring reports that are accurate, practical, transparent, controlled, and usable by other members of the finance team.

* 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