Financial Analyst

Overview

This role supports budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis of business performance. The position involves working across financial statements, spreadsheet schedules, operating metrics, and forecast assumptions within the same week. Emphasis is placed on accuracy checks, clear assumptions, and communicating what the numbers mean in practical, decision-support terms.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile information across schedules or reports and investigate material inconsistencies.
• Compare actual financial results with budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, and explain meaningful variances.
• Communicate financial findings in concise business language, including risks, limitations, and areas requiring follow-up.
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting by organizing assumptions, updating schedules, and checking calculations.
• Help improve recurring financial reporting processes while maintaining appropriate review controls.
• Perform trend, sensitivity, and scenario analysis to show how changing assumptions may affect expected results.

Requirements

• Comfort learning company-specific reporting definitions, schedules, and planning processes.
• Foundational understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and basic accounting principles.
• Comfort using Microsoft Excel or comparable spreadsheet software for calculations and organized financial schedules.
• Clear written communication and the ability to summarize financial information for non-specialist stakeholders.
• Interest in financial modeling, scenario analysis, and forward-looking business planning.
• Ability to make uncertainty explicit by ensuring assumptions are visible rather than hidden inside calculations.
• Dependable communication and self-management skills for a remote work environment, including organizing work, responding to reasonable update requests, and using shared digital tools to keep responsibilities visible and handoffs clear.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial analysis
• Financial modeling
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Variance analysis
• Financial reporting
• Data analysis
• Scenario analysis

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $66,000-$74,000 per year

Location

• Remote — United States

Job Type

• Full Time