Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

<h3>Accountabilities:</h3><li>
<strong>Financial data management and reporting:</strong>Own financial data integrity, reporting structures, and recurring management reports, ensuring that information is accurate, consistent, and accessible to decision-makers.</li><li>Consolidate, reconcile, and validate financial and operational data from multiple sources, including ERP systems, billing platforms, e-commerce tools, and spreadsheets, to establish a reliable source of truth.</li><li>Design, maintain, and enhance financial dashboards and reporting packages that provide timely visibility into business performance, operating metrics, and financial trends.</li><li>Identify opportunities to standardize, document, and automate recurring reporting activities, improving accuracy, efficiency, and scalability across the organization.</li><li>
<strong>Business analytics and financial modeling:</strong>Partner with business unit leaders to assess financial performance, profitability, margins, cost drivers, and key operating metrics across multiple entities.</li><li>Develop financial and operational models to evaluate strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, workforce planning, resource allocation, and other business opportunities.</li><li>Translate complex financial analyses into clear, concise, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership and non-financial stakeholders.</li><li>Monitor profit and loss (P&amp;L) performance across business units, review monthly results, explain variances against budget and forecast, and identify emerging margin pressures or cost management opportunities.</li><li>
<strong>Budgeting and forecasting:</strong>Lead or support the annual budgeting process, collaborating with department heads to develop realistic, well-supported budgets aligned with organizational priorities.</li><li>Manage periodic forecast updates by incorporating actual results, evolving business trends, operational assumptions, and changing financial conditions.</li><li>Conduct variance analyses comparing actual performance with budgets and forecasts, clearly communicating the underlying causes, implications, and recommended actions.</li><li>
<strong>Cash flow and liquidity management:</strong>Build and maintain rolling cash flow forecasts covering short-term and long-term financial horizons.</li><li>Monitor actual cash performance against projections, identify potential liquidity risks or opportunities, and communicate significant changes to relevant stakeholders.</li><li>Support working capital analysis and liquidity planning to strengthen financial visibility and help ensure effective resource management.</li><li>
<strong>Process improvement and technology:</strong>Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate financial modeling, data cleansing, analysis, and variance commentary while independently validating outputs for accuracy and reliability.</li><li>Strengthen financial controls, reconciliation processes, and reporting standards to support reliable decision-making in a rapidly growing, multi-state environment.</li><h2>Requirements:</h2><li>
<strong>Education:</strong>A bachelor's degree in finance or a related discipline is preferred.</li><li>
<strong>Professional experience:</strong>Three to six years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&amp;A), corporate finance, investment banking, or a comparable analytical finance role, ideally including ownership of at least one complete annual budgeting cycle.</li><li>
<strong>Financial planning expertise:</strong>Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, cash flow forecasting, and financial performance management.</li><li>
<strong>Financial reporting and accounting:</strong>Solid understanding of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP), financial reporting practices, and the principles of data reconciliation and financial controls.</li><li>
<strong>Technical proficiency:</strong>Strong Excel skills and practical experience working with financial data, building models, developing reporting packages, and maintaining dashboards.</li><li>
<strong>Financial systems knowledge:</strong>Working knowledge of a major enterprise resource planning (ERP) or financial planning platform, such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Workday Adaptive Planning, or Anaplan.</li><li>
<strong>Data integration and analysis:</strong>Experience consolidating information across multiple, disconnected systems and transforming inconsistent datasets into accurate, standardized financial reports.</li><li>
<strong>AI and automation:</strong>An interest in using AI tools to improve financial analysis, streamline data preparation, automate recurring tasks, and generate variance commentary, combined with the ability to verify outputs critically.</li><li>
<strong>Business partnership:</strong>Strong commercial awareness and the ability to collaborate with business unit leaders, ask insightful questions, understand operational drivers, and translate financial findings into practical recommendations.</li><li>
<strong>P&amp;L management:</strong>Experience reviewing financial results across departments, business units, or multiple entities, identifying budget deviations, and monitoring profitability and cost performance.</li><li>
<strong>Process improvement:</strong>A proactive, process-oriented mindset, with the ability to document workflows, strengthen controls, identify inefficiencies, and implement scalable solutions.</li><li>
<strong>Communication skills:</strong>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts and present analytical findings clearly to senior leaders and non-financial audiences.</li><li>
<strong>Attention to detail:</strong>Strong organizational skills and a commitment to accuracy, including the ability to identify inconsistencies, validate assumptions, and build reliable checks into financial workflows.</li><li>
<strong>Autonomy and adaptability:</strong>Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently, and deliver results in a fully remote, fast-growing organization.</li><li>
<strong>Additional industry experience:</strong>Experience in multi-unit or multi-state organizations is beneficial. Backgrounds in education, schools, membership-based organizations, or subscription businesses are particularly valuable.</li><h2>Benefits:</h2><li>
<strong>Competitive annual salary:</strong>$85,000–$105,000, depending on experience and qualifications.</li><li>
<strong>Healthcare coverage:</strong>Medical, dental, and vision benefits.</li><li>
<strong>Retirement savings:</strong>A 401(k) plan with an employer match.</li><li>
<strong>Paid time off:</strong>Paid time off to support personal well-being and work-life balance.</li><li>
<strong>Remote work flexibility:</strong>A fully remote position based in the United States.</li><li>
<strong>Professional growth:</strong>Opportunities to develop financial planning expertise, expand analytical capabilities, and take on increasing responsibility.</li><li>
<strong>Strategic exposure:</strong>The opportunity to work closely with senior finance leadership and business unit leaders on budgeting, forecasting, and business performance.</li><li>
<strong>Technology-driven environment:</strong>Opportunities to explore AI tools, financial automation, and scalable reporting solutions.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful impact:</strong>The chance to strengthen financial operations across a growing network of performing arts schools and businesses, helping support educators, artists, and local communities.</li><li>
<strong>Collaborative culture:</strong>A people-first environment emphasizing respect, flexibility, shared purpose, and continuous improvement.</li>