Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Overview

About GreenSky

GreenSky, LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, is a leading technology company Powering Commerce at the Point of Sale® for a growing ecosystem of merchants, consumers, and banks. GreenSky’s highly scalable, proprietary and patented technology platform enables merchants to offer frictionless promotional payment options to consumers, driving increased sales volume and accelerated cash flow. The GreenSky® Program is operated on behalf of, and financing is offered and made by, federally insured, federal or state chartered financial institutions, which leverage GreenSky’s technology to offer and make loans to primarily super-prime and prime consumers nationwide. Since GreenSky’s inception, nearly 6 million consumers have financed more than $50 billion of commerce using GreenSky’s real time “apply and buy” technology.

Overview

GreenSky is a well-established, leading fintech company, headquartered in Atlanta. We make it easy for businesses of all sizes to offer credit to their customers with a fast and paperless solution. With billions of dollars in loans and hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers, we are evolving the consumer credit marketplace.

We have developed a highly scalable loan origination and servicing platform and unique loan origination tools to deliver a differentiated level of service to our stakeholders, merchant and retailer channel partners, consumers, and borrowers.

Leveraging proprietary mobile technology, we are continuing to build on our successes. We have a great team and are proud of the employer-of-choice environment we’ve created. GreenSky is backed by some of the leading private equity investors in the world. Our corporate headquarters is in the expanding fintech hub of Atlanta, GA.

Location: Atlanta, GA (hybrid with 2 days in office each week)

Position: Financial Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

Position Overview:

The Financial Analyst is expected to collaborate closely with Finance and Business Leaders in providing vital financial planning and other FP&A related requests.

The Financial Analyst will support the core FP&A processes for the assigned business unit and/or assigned expense P&L lines and will support consolidation efforts. The role is expected to collaborate closely with the FP&A team and Business Leaders in providing vital Financial Intelligence and Partnership.

 

Duties & Responsibilities

Job Duties:

• Creates insightful and action generating variance analysis for assigned business unit, expense P&L lines and metrics. To that objective, diligently pursues root cause analysis on own initiative with team direction. 
• Creates and maintains forecasts for assigned business unit, expense P&L lines and metrics.
• Presents financial analysis to finance and business leadership on a regular and ad-hoc basis.
• Initiates and supports optimization strategies for assigned expense P&L lines.
• Supports business case evaluation and other business decision making
• Provides support to accounting team during monthly close cycles and as needed.
• Performs various other special projects and analysis as assigned.
• Meets timelines for various deliverables while maintaining excellent quality of work product.

 

Required Skills/Qualifications

Required and Preferred skills:

• The ideal candidate would have 1-2 years of relevant FP&A experience, which could include internship experience. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with high energy and unyielding intellectual curiosity.
• Advanced financial modelling skills are required. The successful candidate must possess superior intelligence with a record of increasing responsibilities and success.
• Advanced Excel experience
• Prefer experience with Workday or another accounting system
• Prefer experience with reporting automation tools such as Adaptive, Contemporary database/SQL/Query, financial modelling, and business intelligence software modules such as Tableau.
• Undergraduate degree in business, finance, accounting, math or a related field with a distinguished academic record required.

Job Competencies:

• Financial Planning & Analysis Capabilities: Leading Candidates should possess FP&A or accounting experience, including the ability to develop and maintain financial projections and budgets.
• Financial Modeling and Data Capabilities: Financial modeling skills, pivot tables, and other contemporary modeling, automation and excel techniques.
• Problem Solving & Analytical Orientation:Excellent p