Finance Analyst

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• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.

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• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a skilled and highly motivated Financial Analyst to join our Corporate FP&A team. As the Financial Analyst, you will play a critical role in supporting the Corporate FP&A Manager and our FP&A department by ensuring efficient coordination, effective communication, and timely completion of key deliverables. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams. This position will also provide financial guidance, reporting, and analytical support to corporate departments along with companywide expenses.

COMPENSATION: $65,000 - $85,000/annually, with additional annual bonus potential

LOCATION: Remote (within the U.S.), with typical working hours aligning with the Pacific Time Zone (PST)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Planning & Forecasting

• Extract and model financial information, analyze and provide meaningful insights to finance leadership and other business partners

• Provide financial support to corporate departments including, but not limited to, financial modeling and analysis, variance reporting, and expense management

• Prepare and analyze consolidated companywide expense reporting, including monthly variance analysis and reporting to finance leadership

• Partner with manager to provide annual planning and subsequent forecast updates to business partners to achieve organizational objectives

• Improve visibility, forecasting, and analysis of results and key metrics while advising finance leadership on insights and recommended actions

• Deliver timely and robust planning content with meaningful insights

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare clear, accurate and in-depth financial analyses in support of monthly reporting packages, quarterly close materials, and other management reporting cycles

• Prepare succinct and clear executive presentations that simplify complex topics, often with time sensitive deliverables

• Ensure data integrity and deliver consistent and accurate reporting of finance data across the organization

• Create documentation and improve standardization of streamlined planning and reporting templates and processes

• Assist in procedures and reporting related to monthly/quarterly/annual close processes

Financial systems/modeling

• Support ownership of Planful, the company’s financial planning system, and identify/implement opportunities for enhancing financial models, input templates, data hierarchies, etc.

• Apply financial system updates, enhancements, and data integrations.

• Compile information from various stakeholders in preparing deliverables that pull data from multiple sources

Teamwork & Collaboration

• Cultivate finance/business relationships, which includes learning the business, responding to evolving priorities and understanding the impacts of decisions on key stakeholders

• Partner with manager to drive cross-functional alignment on finance processes and planning through collaboration across teams to improve data quality and speed of reporting

• Actively seek opportunities to improve tools and processes

• Effectively manage numerous projects at a given time in a fast-paced environment

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or relevant field required; MBA preferred

• Certified Public Accountant license (CPA) or other relevant licenses/certification preferred

• 2+ years of related work and/or public accounting experience required

• Knowledge of corporate finance and accounting principles, laws, and best practices; strong understanding of GAAP, financial statements,