Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst is responsible for providing financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting for multiple Business Units. This position requires excellent problem solving skills, thrives in a challenging environment, energetic, flexible, and self-motivated.

Requirements

• Perform general ledger accounting and financial support activities
• Budget and cost reviews including analyzing variances between actuals, forecast, and plan
• Update forecasting and budget projections regularly
• Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses
• Financial analysis and modeling — pull and consolidate large data sets, build models from scratch and improve existing ones
• Provides accurate and appropriate materials to meet the monthly close timeline
• Prepare and present compelling presentations to Senior Executives to help drive decision making and profitability
• Documents key financial processes, identifies and implements process improvements
• Collaborate with business leads to summarize and analyze key data
• Ability to consolidate large sets of analytical data and present in an easily interpreted format to drive better business decisions
• Special projects — Lead special analyses and run projects to assist leadership with decision making
• Support School Finance group with Stride and school financial policies, internal controls, and business processes

Benefits

• health benefits
• retirement contributions
• paid time off