Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

The Senior Financial Analyst provides advanced financial insight, analysis, and modeling to support strategic and operational decision-making across the organization. This role partners closely with executive and functional leaders in Finance, Product, Operations, and other key business areas to evaluate performance, identify growth opportunities, and inform investment decisions.

This position plays a critical role in budgeting, forecasting, and process improvement efforts, delivering strategic recommendations that help the organization achieve its financial and product development goals. The ideal candidate produces accurate work on time, takes initiative to solve complex business problems, and communicates effectively with a diverse set of key partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary FP&A partner for multiple departments, proactively identifying financial risks and opportunities and improving processes.
• Lead monthly financial performance reviews with department heads, including variance analysis, root cause assessments, forward-looking recommendations, and communication of actionable insights to leadership.
• Lead cross-functional process improvement initiatives by developing scalable workflows and automated solutions to reduce manual effort and increase reporting accuracy.
• Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and reporting packages that track key financial and operational KPIs to support data-driven decision-making.
• Lead the end-to-end FTE reporting process for budgeting and forecasting as the subject matter expert for workforce data.
• Drive data integrity initiatives in partnership with the People/HR team to improve cross-functional workforce planning processes.
• Define, propose, and champion system enhancements and data infrastructure improvements based on business challenges, performance trends, and strategic outcomes to improve reporting and forecast accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 5+ years of financial analysis experience within a corporate Finance or FP&A environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and project-based analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets.
• Proven ability to analyze complex business problems using financial modeling and large data sets.
• Experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ability to extract, manipulate, and synthesize data from financial and operational systems.
• Strong project management and excellent communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple high-priority deliverables simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Education, Technology, or Publishing industries.
• Advanced financial modeling expertise.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, NetSuite, Pigment, Tableau and/or Looker.
• Experience with 3-statement modeling.
• Prior experience at a Big 4 accounting firm or management consulting firm is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Additional Information

• Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans.
• If selected for employment, a background check will be required, and additional documentation may be required as determined by state and local laws and district policies, such as proof of vaccination and enhanced background screening (including fingerprinting).
• E-Verify participant.