Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy

Are you ready to accelerate your career? Join Cielo as a Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy! A career at Cielo will give you the opportunity to work with the industry’s smartest people and to take ownership of your success!  

Cielo is a brand that reflects our big idea – that talent is rising – and with it our opportunity to rise above. We create careers for ambitious people by moving beyond traditional assumptions of what it means to work in talent acquisition.

Cielo is the world's leading Talent Acquisition Partner. We deliver a better talent experience for everyone through Talent Acquisition, Search, Consulting, and Digital Accelerators™. With our fresh approach – we design and build comprehensive, proven solutions inspired by technology to find and keep the unique talent that elevates our clients above the competition.  

Cielo is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law for an individual who falls within the jurisdiction of such law. Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting Cielo Talent Acquisition at talent.acquisition@cielotalent.com

The Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy serves as a business partner to operational leadership. The Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy will also assist in the preparation and analysis of management reporting including budget, financial statement projections, as well as ad hoc support in planning and executing strategic initiatives of the business. The Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A & Data Strategy performs complex operational, financial, and data analysis on multiple business units to support business initiatives.

Work location: This position is remote for candidates based in the US only
Work arrangement: Remote
Specific needs: Relevant experience for the role, strong financial modeling and Excel skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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/advice to inform strategic decisions.
• Prepare and present actionable recommendations from analysis in a clear and compelling format.
• Collaborate internally with the finance team members to improve processes and solve for new challenges impacted by company initiatives.
• Build and maintain models that can measure performance of client accounts across product offerings, to inform on opportunities for further growth and identify risk to achievement of targets.
• Partner with stakeholders to maintain forecasts and prepare budgets to manage the OPEX spend within their respective cost centers.
• Identify areas for improvement in profitability and hold operational leadership accountable to results.
• Collaborates 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.
• Cultivate and establish performance metrics using subjective understanding of the business to help optimize the performance of client accounts.
• Self-starter who can take tasks from start to finish and enjoys working in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, meet time-sensitive deadlines, and work well through ambiguity and complexity.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

Education:

• CPA (or equivalent) designation preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration is required.
• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration preferred.

Experience:

• 4-6 years of experience in Public Accounting/Consulting or similar Analyst role.

Exposure:

• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills.
• Effective communicator and influencer.
• HR/Professional Services industry interest.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.