Overview
A financial analyst position is available to support the Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team in financial reporting, forecasting, planning, and analysis activities. This role involves working closely with finance leadership, corporate functional leaders, and cross-functional departments to deliver insights that support strategic decision-making.
This position offers broad exposure to financial planning and reporting processes and provides an opportunity to develop analytical, financial, and business partnering skills while supporting key decisions across the enterprise. The successful candidate will gain experience in executive financial reporting, forecasting, business performance analysis, and strategic finance initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and distribute monthly financial reports, forecasts, and management reporting materials.
- Analyze financial performance and identify key drivers of variances compared to forecast, budget, and prior year results.
- Support monthly close, quarterly forecasting, annual planning, and other core FP&A processes.
- Assist in preparing materials for senior leadership, the CFO, Board of Directors, and other executive reporting needs.
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis, modeling, and reporting to support business and finance initiatives, providing timely analysis and actionable insights.
- Support administration and reporting of internal projects and other corporate finance processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve, standardize, and automate financial reporting and planning activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 0–2 years of relevant internship or professional experience.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with financial systems, reporting tools, or data visualization platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with Workday, Adaptive Planning, Power BI, AI tools (such as Copilot, Claude), or similar platforms is a plus.
- Experience in consulting, corporate finance, financial analysis, or accounting environments is preferred.
- Ability to work CST or EST hours.
- Chicago location is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
- Estimated base salary range: $60,000 - $80,000.
- Total estimated compensation range including annual incentive: $66,000 - $88,000.
- Eligibility to participate in the annual incentive compensation program.
- Access to benefit plans including medical, dental, vision coverage, and wellness programs.
The salary range represents a good faith estimate and actual compensation may vary based on skills, experience, market conditions, and other factors. Salary transparency is provided in accordance with applicable state and local laws.
Location
- United States (Chicago location preferred)
- Must be able to work CST or EST hours