The Team

We are seeking a Lead Analyst Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to join American Tower’s Financial Planning and Analysis team. The FP&A team partners with internal stakeholders to provide actionable analyses and recommendations driven by detailed analytics. Day to day you will focus on forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling and reporting. As a Lead Analyst FP&A you will partner cross-functionally to deliver guidance on decisions about business development projects that impact the long-term strategy of U.S. Tower.

What You Can Offer Us

• Serve as the main business partner for the Sales organization by providing thoughtful analyses, reporting, and predictive modeling to help senior leaders make informed financial decisions.    
• Prepare long range strategic plans, annual budgets and monthly forecasts.    
• Lead Revenue planning for the U.S. Tower business    
• Build monthly and quarterly reporting packages and variance analysis of actuals against plan and forecast.    
• Develop appropriate reporting/dashboards to provide visibility into trends, key drivers and metrics (KPI’s)    
• Develop ad hoc analyses to uncover trends and assess business risks / opportunities in order to provide recommendations    
• Communicate outcomes of analyses and research to Sr. Manager FP&A and other internal stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end understanding of financials, strategy, process, and planning    
• As a Lead Analyst FP&A you may be responsible for the recruitment, performance management and career development of Analysts and Senior Analysts. You’ll also be expected to cultivate a collaborative team dynamic that enables us to meet our business objectives.    
• Other duties as assigned.    

What You Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related major is required.
• Masters degree and/or CPA/ CFA certification is preferred.
• Minimum 3-5 years of progressive finance experience is required, such as reporting, planning, advanced analytics and complex predictive modeling.
• Proficiency with multi-dimensional reporting and business intelligence tools (e.g. Essbase/Adaptive Planning/Anaplan, Tableau/PowerBI/OAS) is required.
• Business partnership experience strongly preferred.
• Telecommunications, real estate, and/or broadcast media experience is a plus.
• Ability to anticipate barriers/opportunities and think out of the box to enable solutions.
• Strong organization, planning, and project management skills; ability to prioritize tasks for self and team to meet requirements and deadlines.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results.
• Ability to work with different functional groups and levels of employees to effectively and professionally to achieve results.

American Tower is a global digital infrastructure company serving customers through tower sites and other real estate solutions that support connectivity and opportunity, focused on achieving our vision of Building a More Connected World. Our success is rooted in the potential of our people and the power of local teams at our offices and sites across 25 countries.

We are one of the largest global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and a publicly traded (NYSE:AMT), Fortune 500 Company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The next decade will be an exciting time as we evolve our infrastructure to meet tomorrow’s needs and position our people to elevate their impact, their potential, and our shared success. Come grow your career with us!

For more information about how American Tower is building a more connected world, visit americantower.com.

American Tower is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, reproductive decisions, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. PDN-9ebfc2dd-e216-4dce-95c3-f4cab7ef42ea