Financial Analyst

Overview

This role is a Financial Analyst position focused on budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis of business performance. The work is designed for someone who can handle financial information carefully and clearly explain what the numbers mean in practical terms.

• Location: Remote — United States
• Job Type: Full Time
• Compensation: $69,000–$77,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Review source information and validate calculations before financial analysis is distributed or relied upon.
• Communicate financial findings in concise business language, including risks, limitations, and areas requiring follow-up.
• Document model logic, assumptions, and analytical methods so work remains understandable and reusable.
• Reconcile information across schedules or reports and investigate material inconsistencies.
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting by organizing assumptions, updating schedules, and checking calculations.
• Build and maintain spreadsheet-based financial models for planning, comparison, and scenario analysis.
• Update forecasts and review actual results against budget.
• Prepare management reports.
• Test how changes in assumptions may affect expected outcomes.
• Organize inputs, check calculations, and summarize the most meaningful drivers.

Requirements

• Ability to compare results, identify material variances, and explain the drivers behind financial changes.
• Interest in financial modeling, scenario analysis, and forward-looking business planning.
• Comfort learning reporting definitions, schedules, and planning processes used by the organization.
• Willingness to question inconsistent inputs and resolve or escalate discrepancies before completing an analysis.
• Strong numerical reasoning and attention to detail, with a disciplined approach to checking financial information.
• Ability to keep financial models and schedules understandable after task completion (e.g., clear labels, documented assumptions, reasonable checks, organized formulas).
• Comfort presenting alternative scenarios when uncertainty could make a single estimate misleading.
• Ability to identify what changed, understand the assumptions behind results, and communicate implications without overstating what the information can prove.

Preferred Qualifications

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