Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy

Summary

Join Cielo as a Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy and accelerate your career! Work with industry leaders and take ownership of your success. As a business partner to senior leadership, you will focus on Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). You will be pivotal in preparing and analyzing management reporting, including budgets and financial statement projections. This remote position (US-based candidates only) requires strong corporate finance experience, excellent financial modeling skills, and effective communication. You will lead financial planning processes, build financial models, and provide data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions.

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 in a large, complex organization

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute financial planning processes including the annual budgeting process, quarterly forecasts, and long-term financial planning
• 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 and advice to inform strategic decisions
• Prepare and present actionable recommendations from analysis in a clear and compelling format
• Continually improve financial processes, reporting tools, and systems for enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and strategic decision-making
• Develop and maintain complex financial models to measure performance of client accounts across product offerings, inform on opportunities for further growth, and identify risk to achievement of targets
• Partner with stakeholders to understand operational drivers, translating them into financial impact to maintain the forecast and manage the spend within their respective cost centers
• Identify areas for improvement in profitability and hold operational leadership accountable to results
• Collaborate 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
• Provide in-depth analysis of financial performance, identifying trends, variances, and key performance indicators, and offer actionable insights to senior leadership to optimize performance of client accounts
• 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
• Strong background in corporate finance
• Excellent financial modeling and Excel skills
• Effective communicator and influencer
• Ability to work cross-functionally

Benefits

• Work location: This position is remote for candidates based in the US only
• Work arrangement: Remote