Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Fandom's Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst and partner with business units to provide financial support during budgeting cycles. Analyze operational data, forecast expenditures, and reconcile forecasts to actual results. Develop and maintain financial models, ensuring accurate predictions of business performance. Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, driving decision-making through data-driven insights. Collaborate with the Accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting. This remote role, preferably based on the West Coast, offers opportunities for process improvement and leveraging reporting systems.

Requirements

• BA/BS (or higher) in finance, accounting (or related quantitative field such as math, economics, science, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience in financial analysis
• Demonstrated an increased level of complexity over time
• Experience using financial planning and analysis systems and tools
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively, with support available when needed
• Demonstrated experience using data to make business decisions
• Prioritizes and delivers in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment
• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, and known for driving projects forward
• Advanced Excel modeling & analytical skills, such as building financial models from scratch in Excel/Sheets, and usage of formulas standard to finance and analysis
• Experience presenting financial data using detailed and easily-understood reporting and visualizations for business leaders
• Interest in driving process improvements

Responsibilities

• Partner with business units and department owners in providing financial support during the strategic and annual budgeting cycles, including, but not limited to, the Engineering team
• Provide financial reporting to understand performance versus plan, reconcile forecasts to actual results monthly, as well as trade-off scenarios in resource allocation to help drive decision making
• Form trusted relationships with department leaders and key stakeholders across the company, as both a trusted resource and objective participant in financial planning and decision making
• Develop and own financial models and analyses that support the short and long-term objectives of the department and the company
• Maintain detailed financial forecasts that accurately predict business performance; highlight key variances, risks, and opportunities
• Work closely with our Accounting team to ensure accurate results during the close of each financial period
• Own the Balance Sheet model, Cash Flow model, and other income/expense assumptions, in partnership with Accounting
• Maintain and expand the use of our budgeting and reporting systems; suggest process improvements to provide further leverage, as well as research tools to improve our finance processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certification (e.g., CFA/CPA)
• First-hand knowledge of internet, social media, and online ads business model
• 1+ years of experience working with NetSuite or Planful
• 1+ years of experience working with Engineering teams and assessing infrastructure spend
• Strong accounting knowledge, understanding of how financial statements are related
• Experience in transaction advisory services or investment banking

Benefits

• Salary Range = ($102k - $150k)
• Vibrant team culture
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision
• Training (unlimited Udemy + more)
• Flexible working hours and time off
• Equity & Retirement Programs, including 401K match
• Paid Parental Leave
• International work environment with a start-up culture