Financial Analyst
Role Overview
The Financial Analyst supports leadership needs through financial and operational analysis, budgets, forecasts, comparisons of plans to actual performance, and financial insights.
Partners with Finance, Operations, project managers, and leadership on reporting, resource utilization, and financial stewardship.
The role involves complex data, trend identification, problem-solving, and communicating actionable recommendations.
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Position description
The Financial Analyst supports leadership needs through financial and operational analysis, budgets, forecasts, comparisons of plans to actual performance, and financial insights.
Partners with Finance, Operations, project managers, and leadership on reporting, resource utilization, and financial stewardship.
The role involves complex data, trend identification, problem-solving, and communicating actionable recommendations.
Financial planning and analysis
- Support the CFO with long-term financial planning and organizational sustainability initiatives.
- Prepare annual operating budgets, organizational and regional project budget analysis, and forecasts by line of business at leadership request.
- Prepare financial models and scenario analyses for planning and strategic decisions.
- Monitor actual performance against budgets, forecasts, and project plans with Project Coordinators; identify and present significant variances.
- Assist with projections for revenue, expenses, cash flow, staffing, and other financial metrics.
- Analyze historical financial data for trends, risks, and opportunities.
Project, grant, and workforce analysis
- Analyze project profitability, cost recovery, indirect costs, and organizational financial performance metrics.
- Support financial analysis for new business development and provide past and future financial information for philanthropic needs.
- Support workforce utilization and compensation planning with financial models and personnel cost analysis.
Reporting and data analysis
- Prepare and maintain self-refreshing reports, dashboards, and management reports using data from the Vantage Point ERP.
- Develop clear financial summaries for financial and non-financial audiences.
- Assist the CFO in developing and monitoring KPIs and financial metrics.
Workplace
- The posting states that the role is remote.
Compensation
- The stated annual pay scale is $94,000 to $115,000.
Requirements
- Be comfortable working with complex data, identifying trends, solving problems, and translating financial information into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Partner with Finance, Operations, project managers, leadership, and program teams to support accurate financial reporting and resource stewardship.
- The provided description is truncated before any further candidate qualifications are shown.
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