As our Sr Financial Analyst, you will be a key strategic partner, leveraging advanced financial analysis to drive insight, predictability, and efficiency in supply chain operations. Analyze supply chain data to provide leaders with insights on initiative performance, forecasts, and budgeting, improving expense predictability. Support budget development/variance reporting. Present recommendations to market finance leaders. Collaborate for consistent analysis and reporting across functions. Produce forecasts for supply expense trends. Analyze market performance on expense reduction initiatives and update forecasts throughout the fiscal year. Develop analytic models to provide insight to supply expense budgeting. Develop budget variance reporting templates and organize market report-outs. Connect with analysts from other functions to collaborate on analytic standards. Help coordinate improved cross-functional activity by utilizing analytics and key measurements to identify opportunities to eliminate waste in processes. Work closely with analysts and stakeholders in other business functions to develop an analyst community, eliminating information gaps across functional areas. Contribute to the development of data governance standards.

• Support Ascent’s Global Annual Financial Planning & Continuous Financial Forecasting Program by working collaboratively with internal business partners and the FP&A team to create an annual financial plan and forecasts for Ascent’s corporate functional departments and business lines, and other areas as assigned • Support Ascent’s Monthly Financial Review Program by working collaboratively with internal business partners and your FP&A teammates to facilitate monthly financial reviews for Ascent’s business lines and for other areas as assigned • Support the maintenance and expansion of Ascent’s FP&A Technology Platform , which is comprised of Alteryx workflows, a Snowflake data warehouse, Power BI dashboards and Excel based reports. • Support the completion of the projects and initiatives from the Annual FP&A Continuous Improvement Plan • Perform ad-hoc analysis & reporting as assigned and assist with special projects to support strategic decision-making. • Develop proficiency in all relevant financial systems, policies, and procedures.

• Conducting thorough portfolio-level analytics and delivering insightful performance reports • Collecting, processing, and ensuring the accuracy of security-level data and trade entries • Managing and validating investment data, spearheading process enhancements, responding to organizational data requests • Engaging in vendor selection, due diligence, and ongoing relationship management • Partnering closely with principal investment professionals, actuaries, accountants, and product development teams

• Own all facets of OPEX spend and headcount planning for Organizations across the business (with an emphasis on EPD), with growth opportunities to be a FP&A vertical owner • Continue to develop internal FP&A tool Pigment, building out enhanced modeling and reporting for business partners within the system • Partner with Org leads, People Business Partners, and talent to understand end-to-end organizational needs (headcount & non-headcount spend), acting as a business partner to manage and recalibrate spend on a monthly basis • Participate in the annual planning process, owning your areas for a 12 to 18 month forward-looking projection • Support the month-end close process by completing budget vs. actual analysis against prior periods, budgets, and forecasts. • Familiarize with business operating metrics and the utilization of said metric to drive business insight and operational improvements • Create vendor-level forecasts for spend, including but not limited to software and legal • Assist in the creation of internal and external monthly reporting packages, in partnership with various Finance & Accounting teams and Data • Assist in forward-looking modeling efforts to better understand impact of spend on revenue • Partner with cross-functional teams for the preparation of key quarterly reporting deliverables, including Board Meeting presentations and investor reporting • Partner with Accounting on policies that impact corporate spend