Financial Analyst

Overview

The organization is seeking a highly proactive, detail-oriented Financial Analyst with 1–2 years of professional experience to join its fast-paced finance team. In this role, you will support essential record maintenance, high-volume data scrubbing, and detailed reconciliations, while contributing to complex month-end close processes, strategic financial analysis, and workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Data Maintenance & Record Keeping: Maintain, scrub, and organize large sets of financial records to ensure data integrity across ledgers and reporting systems.
• Reconciliations & Variance Investigation: Perform detailed weekly and monthly reconciliations (e.g., bank, revenue, crypto balance), including investigation of variances and discrepancies.
• Pre/Post-close Preparation & Support: Organize, review, and clean up pre-close items to ensure financial data is accurately prepared for month-end close.
• Analysis & Modeling: Support financial modeling, profitability analysis, and the building and maintenance of budget models and forecasting processes.
• Process Improvement & Automation: Streamline financial reporting workflows and routine reconciliation tasks using automation tools and scripts (e.g., Python, SQL, Google Apps Script, or advanced Excel macros).
• Proactive Task Management: Identify process gaps, discrepancies, or operational inefficiencies, and independently initiate and complete tasks to resolve them.
• Ad Hoc Tasks: Complete ad hoc tasks from senior management, investors, and other external sources.
• Audit & Tax Support: Assist with year-end (YE) audit and tax reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, with 1–2 years of relevant professional experience.
• Solid foundational understanding of accounting principles (e.g., GAAP, double-entry bookkeeping, accruals).
• Minimum GPA of 3.6.
• Proficient with Excel, with strong emphasis on data manipulation and demonstrated hands-on experience in financial process automation.
• Highly detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills; comfortable diving deep into data to find and fix discrepancies.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with proven ability to independently identify tasks, take ownership, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision.
• Strong organization and time management skills, with ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Team player with a positive attitude and willingness to take on new operational challenges.

Compensation & Benefits

• Target annual salary (US): $70,000 – $90,000.
• Exact compensation will be determined based on the skills and experience of qualified candidates.

Benefits for full-time employees may include:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• HSA (with high deductible plan)
• FSA
• Flexible paid time off and holidays

Location

• Remote (US-based).

Eligibility to Work

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.