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Specialist, CFO Innovation Team

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As a specialist with the CFO Innovation Team, you will drive process automation, improve finance workflows, and provide analytical insights in collaboration with technology partners and finance teams.
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A Career with Point72’s Finance Team

The Finance team provides a broad range of timely, accurate, relevant, and objective financial information, advice, and services to its business partners, with commitment to the highest professional and ethical standards. Our team offers a dynamic and collaborative environment where our colleagues can learn at a fast pace and are rewarded with advanced opportunities both within Finance and across the firm.

Operating within the Finance function, the CFO Innovation team seeks to reengineer finance-based processes with automation at the forefront, understanding that these steps are key to driving efficiency and increasing the level of controls in our processes. 

What you’ll do

As a specialist on the CFO Innovation Team, you will work with Technology partners and Finance teams to utilize a variety of tech solutions (e.g., GenAI, AI, Python, Alteryx, Appian, VBA) to design and implement ideas and build awareness and expertise. Specifically, you will:

  • Creatively implement new techniques and manage automation projects in partnership with teams across the firm to improve processes and identify solutions that are grounded in thoughtful analytics
  • Collaborate to improve activities such as the month-end close and trader accrual processes
  • Present analytical findings in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to help guide action plans 
  • Leverage your understanding of a broad range of finance processes and systems to propose solutions 

What’s required

  • Degree in accounting, finance, or related field 
  • 4-6 years of professional experience in accounting, corporate finance and/or a relevant field  
  • Technical expertise in automation tools such as MS Power Automate and Alteryx, visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI, and enterprise systems such as Workday 
  • Intellectual curiosity in adopting the latest technological advances such as within the GenAI space and applying them to Finance use cases  
  • Ability to build working relationships with colleagues throughout the firm as you work with them to map out end-to-end processes and identify areas for improvement 
  • Strong analytical skills to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights 
  • Experience with and ability to manage a series of small- and large-scale automation projects and map out process steps to identify areas for improvement
  • Strong Excel skills and exposure to coding languages such as Python
  • A self-starter who can work independently
  • Strong writing and verbal communication skills
  • Commitment to highest ethical standards 

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:

  • Fully-paid health care benefits
  • Generous parental and family leave policies
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community
  • Mental and physical wellness programs
  • Tuition assistance
  • A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/about.

The annual base salary range for this role is $120,000-$145,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

Top Skills

AI
Alteryx
Appian
Genai
Ms Power Automate
Power BI
Python
Tableau
VBA
Workday

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