Senior Strategic Analyst - Remote – Western U.S. | AZ, CA, NV, UT, NM, CO

Overview

This role translates complex business questions and data into actionable insights and recommendations to support company strategy and decision-making. You will partner with leaders across the organization to evaluate performance, identify opportunities, and develop analytical solutions that improve financial and operational outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to understand strategic objectives, business challenges, and opportunities, and translate them into well-defined analytical questions.
• Analyze complex financial, operational, and strategic problems and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
• Identify key drivers of business performance and distinguish meaningful insights from large or complex datasets.
• Develop and maintain financial, operational, profitability, and decision-support models used to evaluate business performance, opportunities, and strategic initiatives.
• Independently source, combine, transform, validate, and analyze data using SQL, Excel, Snowflake, dbt, Python, and other analytical tools as appropriate.
• Perform company, regional, market, customer, and other business-level analyses to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and underlying performance drivers.
• Develop executive-ready presentations and clearly communicate analytical findings, recommendations, and business implications.
• Design scalable analytical tools, datasets, and reporting solutions that improve the speed, consistency, and quality of business decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing business processes, KPIs, reports, dashboards, and analytical models.
• Manage medium to large analytical projects with minimal oversight and adapt analytical approaches as business needs evolve.
• Provide analytical guidance and support to other analysts and contribute to the continued development of team capabilities and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Analytics, Accounting, or a related field preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in financial analysis, business analysis, strategic analysis, FP&A, analytics, consulting, or a related discipline.
• Exceptional business acumen and ability to understand the financial and operational drivers of a business.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous business questions and develop an analytical approach.
• Ability to identify meaningful relationships, trends, and business drivers within complex information and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Advanced Excel skills with demonstrated experience developing analytical models and performing complex analysis.
• Strong SQL proficiency with the ability to independently source, join, transform, and analyze data.
• Experience with, or ability to quickly learn, modern analytics tools and workflows including Snowflake, dbt, Git/GitHub, and Python.
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation development skills with the ability to clearly communicate analytical findings to senior leadership.
• Experience working with business intelligence and data visualization platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate analytical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and assignments.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision while collaborating effectively across Finance, Operations, Sales, and other business functions.
• High attention to detail with a strong focus on data accuracy and analytical integrity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in FP&A, corporate strategy, pricing, profitability analysis, operations finance, or strategic decision support.
• Experience developing business cases, profitability models, forecasts, or other financial and operational decision-support models.
• Experience developing dashboards, KPIs, management reporting, or automated decision-support tools.
• Experience presenting analyses or recommendations to senior or executive leadership.

Location

Remote — Western U.S. | AZ, CA, NV, UT, NM, CO