Job Title - Financial Analyst
Location - 100% remote
Full-time (40 hours)
Duration - 5+ months
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join our Finance team temporarily to provide maternity leave coverage for approximately 5 months. This role will play a critical part in driving financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis to support strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate is analytical, organized, able to ramp up quickly and maintain continuity on existing work, and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and will partner with various departments to ensure alignment on business objectives.
The Financial Analyst is an individual contributor and reports to the FP&A Manager.
Responsibilities:
Support the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes across multiple departments, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic goals relating to OPEX
Serve as day-to-day finance partner to various functions during the coverage period by providing overall budget support, resolution to budget questions, reviewing PO requests and suggested spend, and ensuring contracts are aligned with plan
Conduct risk and opportunity analyses, identifying financial trends and potential impacts to the business
Support and work closely with Accounting on month-end close activities, including preparation and posting of accruals, variance analysis, and reporting (including P&L analysis and cash forecasts)
Prepare and maintain detailed financial models to support forecasting, planning, and ad hoc scenario analyses
Analyze financial and operational data to provide actionable insights and support strategic initiatives
Prepare management reports and presentations for senior leadership and key stakeholders
Maintain existing FP&A processes, tools, and templates, and identify opportunities to improve and automate them for scalability and efficiency
Collaborate across finance organization to support broader team priorities and organizational goals and serve as a resource to other finance functions as needed
Fulfill ad hoc data, analysis, and decision support requests
Qualifications & Skills:
Bachelors degree in Business, Economics, Accounting, or Finance or evidence of quantitative and analytical ability
3+ years of experience in a financial, quantitative, or analytical role
Experience in SAP, Adaptive Planning (or similar planning tool), and Apptio is a plus
Very strong knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel (pivot tables and charts)
Comfort with large datasets and gaining insights
Strong interpersonal skills and well-developed verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work cross-functionally with different departments
Must have outstanding attention to detail and strong time/project management ability
Ability to quickly learn existing processes and step into in-flight work with minimal ramp-up time