Financial Analyst

Overview

This is an entry-level Financial Analyst role supporting recurring financial reporting and analysis of revenue, expenses, budgets, forecasts, and operating performance. The position offers meaningful analytical responsibility and involves moving between financial statements, spreadsheet schedules, operating metrics, and forecast assumptions within the same week.

Responsibilities

• Support 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.
• Compare actual financial results with budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, and explain meaningful variances.
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting by organizing assumptions, updating schedules, and checking calculations.
• Reconcile information across schedules or reports and investigate material inconsistencies.
• Analyze revenue, expenses, margins, and other financial or operating measures to identify performance drivers.

Requirements

• Clear written communication skills, including the ability to summarize financial information for non-specialist stakeholders.
• Strong numerical reasoning and attention to detail, with a disciplined approach to verifying financial information.
• Ability to manage assigned priorities independently while collaborating through digital tools in a remote environment.
• Comfort learning company-specific reporting definitions, schedules, and planning processes.
• Foundational understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and basic accounting principles.
• Ability to make assumptions visible (especially in forecasting) and present alternative scenarios when a single estimate could create a false sense of precision.
• Ability to produce financial work that is technically reliable and decision-useful, with numbers supported by clear assumptions, reasonable checks, and concise explanations of key drivers.

Preferred Skills and Experience

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

Compensation & Benefits

• $72,000–$80,000 per year
• Full Time

Location

• Remote — United States