Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Cielo as a Senior Financial Analyst – Delivery & Corporate Services and become a business partner to operational leadership! You will prepare and analyze management reporting, including budgets and financial projections. This role involves complex operational, financial, and data analysis across multiple business units. The position is remote for US-based candidates, with occasional office visits possible. Experience in the staffing industry is preferred. You will be responsible for building financial models, preparing recommendations, and collaborating with the finance team to improve processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration is required
• 4-6 years of experience in Public Accounting/Consulting or similar Analyst role

Responsibilities

• Prepare quantitative and qualitative analyses based on review of monthly financial results against budget, forecast, and prior year
• Serve as strategic partner to senior leaders translating business problems into more specific questions that can be answered through analytics to aid in the achievement of targeted results
• Build financial and operating models to solve complex problems by providing data-driven insights/advice to inform strategic decisions
• Prepare and present actionable recommendations from analysis in a clear and compelling format
• Collaborate internally with the finance team members to improve processes and solve for new challenges impacted by company initiatives
• Build and maintain models that can measure performance of client accounts across product offerings, to inform on opportunities for further growth and identify risk to achievement of targets
• Partner with stakeholders to maintain forecasts and prepare budgets to manage the OPEX spend within their respective cost centers
• Identify areas for improvement in profitability and hold operational leadership accountable to results
• Collaborates with finance team members to ensure that forecasting and budgeting for client accounts is reflective of company initiatives being pursued
• Create simplified, consistent, and actionable solutions to abstract ideas balancing big picture thinking with acute attention to detail
• Cultivate and establish performance metrics using subjective understanding of the business to help optimize the performance of client accounts
• Self-starter who can take tasks from start to finish and enjoys working in a fast-paced, challenging environment
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, meet time-sensitive deadlines, and work well through ambiguity and complexity

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA (or equivalent) designation preferred
• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration preferred
• Experience in the staffing industry would be ideal
• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills
• Effective communicator and influencer
• HR/Professional Services industry interest