Financial Analyst

Overview

This role involves supporting budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis of business performance. Responsibilities include producing clear, traceable financial reporting and models, explaining what the numbers mean in practical terms, and performing both routine reporting and forward-looking scenario work.

• Location: Remote — United States
• Job Type: Full Time
• Compensation: $70,000–$78,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Support KPI reporting by connecting financial measures with relevant operational context.
• Communicate financial findings in concise business language, including risks, limitations, and areas requiring follow-up.
• Prepare recurring financial reports, management summaries, and ad hoc analyses for stakeholder review.
• Build and maintain spreadsheet-based financial models for planning, comparison, and scenario analysis.
• Perform trend, sensitivity, and scenario analysis to show how changing assumptions may affect expected results.
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting by organizing assumptions, updating schedules, and checking calculations.

Requirements

• Organized documentation habits and an appreciation for traceable financial analysis.
• Ability to learn and apply organization-specific reporting definitions, schedules, and planning processes.
• Clear written communication skills, including the ability to summarize financial information for non-specialist stakeholders.
• Strong numerical reasoning, attention to detail, and a disciplined approach to checking financial information.
• Willingness to question inconsistent inputs and resolve or escalate discrepancies before completing an analysis.
• Comfortable making assumptions visible in forecasting and presenting alternative scenarios when uncertainty could create a false sense of precision.
• Ability to identify what changed, explain assumptions behind results, and communicate implications without overstating what the information can prove.
• Due to the remote nature of the role: dependable communication, self-management, organizing work, responding to reasonable update requests, and using shared digital tools to keep responsibilities and handoffs clear.

Preferred Qualifications

Desired skills and experience include:

• Financial Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Microsoft Excel
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Variance Analysis
• Financial Reporting
• Data Analysis
• Financial Statements
• Scenario Analysis