Financial Analyst

Overview

This role supports budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis of business performance. The position is designed for someone who can work carefully with financial information and explain what the numbers mean in practical terms.

• Job Title: Financial Analyst (Night Shop)
• Location: Remote - United States
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: $66,000-$74,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Communicate financial findings in concise business language, including risks, limitations, and areas requiring follow-up.
• Improve recurring financial reporting processes while maintaining appropriate review controls.
• Document model logic, assumptions, and analytical methods so work remains understandable and reusable.
• Compare actual financial results with budgets, forecasts, and prior periods and explain meaningful variances.
• 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.
• Identify drivers behind financial movement (when information allows), and explain whether differences appear temporary, recurring, assumption-driven, or in need of further review.
• Present alternative scenarios when uncertainty requires assumptions to be visible rather than hidden inside calculations.

Requirements

• Ability to manage assigned priorities independently while collaborating through digital tools in a remote environment.
• Willingness to question inconsistent inputs and resolve or escalate discrepancies before completing an analysis.
• Interest in financial modeling, scenario analysis, and forward-looking business planning.
• Ability to compare results, identify material variances, and explain the drivers behind a financial change.
• Comfort learning company-specific reporting definitions, schedules, and planning processes.
• Dependable communication and self-management in a remote setting, including organizing work, responding to reasonable update requests, and keeping responsibilities and handoffs clear using shared digital tools.

Preferred Qualifications / Skills

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