Lead Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Great Minds as a Finance Business Partner and empower financially sound planning and decision-making. You will provide hands-on coaching to leaders, communicate insights through visuals, and challenge assumptions using structured problem-solving. Build close partnerships with executives to proactively identify financial needs and deliver targeted support. Provide in-depth decision support to executive decision-makers, helping them determine priorities and mitigate risks. Drive key conversations during budgeting, create business cases, and assist in course-correcting performance issues. Equip leaders with tools and reporting for evidence-based decision-making and work with technology teams to ensure these tools meet stakeholder needs. Finally, embed decision support tools, tailoring them to build trust and drive adoption.

Requirements

• 7+ years of corporate FP&A experience, ideally at a mid-to-large company, with a background that includes an early career in Accounting and progression into FP&A
• Financial planning and analysis expertise: Expert knowledge of financial planning; budgeting; and forecasting processes, including the ability to drive continuous improvement in these areas. Deep understanding of the P&L and balance sheet, KPI driver maps and reporting methodologies. Accounting acumen is a requirement
• Strategic thinking and business acumen: Deep understanding of revenue drivers, sales optimization, margin management, and metrics cascades to provide insightful, performance inflecting decision support to business leaders
• Communication and storytelling: Excellent storytelling, communication and presentation skills to effectively convey financial insights, analysis and recommendations to decision makers
• Advanced technology literacy/proficiency: Ability to exploit digital technologies to drive better outcomes for finance and the business. Understanding of emerging technologies to effectively communicate and drive tool requirement discussions with the IT team. Deploy Advanced Excel skills; confident in PowerQuery, PowerPivot, and DAX formulas. Experience with PowerBI or similar BI tools
• Financial coaching and training: Competence in coaching and training decision makers to internalize and apply FP&A concepts
• Problem-solving: Ability to challenge assumptions, teach problem analysis techniques to decision makers and identify root causes and develop effective solutions
• Relationship building and collaboration: Proven ability to build strong relationships with business unit leaders and stakeholders. Active listening skills to uncover latent needs and opportunities for support. Ability to collaborate with FP&A and technology teams to design intuitive reports, analyses and dashboards
• Continuous improvement: Ability to define success criteria and establish measurable metrics for monitoring tool utilization and quality. Ability to work effectively on a team that uses agile principles to continuously iterate the delivery and development of financial tools and solutions
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as finance or accounting. Master’s Degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop FP&A acumen with leaders through hands-on, real-time decision support
• Deliver hands-on coaching to help decision makers apply FP&A thinking in real-time business decisions
• Communicate insights clearly through visuals and storytelling to drive alignment and action
• Challenge assumptions through structured problem-solving and root cause analysis to introduce a finance lens
• Train stakeholders on value-driver trees to connect operational decisions to enterprise value
• Boost financial data literacy by translating complex models into plain business language and supporting real-time learning
• Assess and anticipate decision makers’ needs
• Build close partnerships with executives to proactively identify financial needs and deliver targeted FP&A support
• Uncover unmet needs from non executive stakeholders to guide development of decision tools and services
• Drive fast, iterative improvements through ongoing feedback and direct engagement
• Provide in-depth, highly personalized decision support to executive decision makers
• Help executives determine where to relentlessly triage to drive enterprise value or mitigate risk
• Monitor leading indicators to identify initiative delivery risks and operational performance gaps, drive action or provide alternative approaches
• Provide direct FP&A support to decision makers
• Drive key conversations during the budgeting process, engage in budget pressure-testing, providing FP&A expertise to ensure stakeholders understand potential risks and constraints
• Help stakeholders create business cases, outlining their benefits, costs, and risks; and provide recommendations to secure adequate funding and approval
• Assist in identifying performance issues and provide help in course-correcting (gap-to-goal adjustments)
• Equip leaders will tooling, reporting and dashboards that enable evidence-based decision making
• Work with technology teams to ensure that decision support tools provide actionable advice for a variety of operational and strategic decisions
• Be the “voice of the internal customer” in meetings with FP&A and technology teams to help design intuitive reports, analyses, and dashboards that meet the needs of non executive decision makers
• Drive decision maker adoption of decision support tools
• Embed decision support tools that meet stakeholders where they are—tailoring functionality, language, and value stories to build trust and drive adoption

Benefits

Remote