Financial Analyst

Overview

This role supports budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis of business performance. Responsibilities focus on working carefully with financial information and explaining what the numbers mean in practical, decision-ready terms.

The position is full-time and remote within the United States.

Compensation: $67,000–$75,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Communicate financial findings in concise business language, including risks, limitations, and areas requiring follow-up.
• Support improvements to recurring financial reporting processes while maintaining appropriate review controls.
• Assist KPI reporting by connecting financial measures with relevant operational context.
• Perform trend, sensitivity, and scenario analysis to show how changing assumptions may affect expected results.
• Reconcile information across schedules or reports and investigate material inconsistencies.
• Prepare recurring financial reports, management summaries, and ad hoc analyses for stakeholder review.
• Ensure financial models and schedules remain understandable after the immediate task is complete by using clear labels, documented assumptions, reasonable checks, and organized formulas.

Requirements

• Willingness to question inconsistent inputs and resolve or escalate discrepancies before completing an analysis.
• Comfort learning company-specific reporting definitions, schedules, and planning processes.
• Foundational understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and basic accounting principles.
• Strong numerical reasoning, attention to detail, and a disciplined approach to checking financial information.
• Ability to manage assigned priorities independently while collaborating through digital tools in a remote environment.
• Ability to present forecast assumptions clearly, including alternative scenarios when appropriate.
• Ability to maintain visible assumptions rather than hiding them within calculations.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Financial analysis
• Financial modeling
• Microsoft Excel
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Variance analysis
• Financial reporting
• Data analysis
• Financial statements
• Scenario analysis