Finance Analyst

Flex

$80K — $100K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 0-2 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, Big 4, or similar role
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, engineering, mathematics, or quantitative field
  • Ability to build financial models from scratch and advanced Excel or Google Sheets proficiency
  • Hands-on experience in budgeting or forecasting cycles
  • Experience with AI tools in finance and ability to critique machine outputs
  • Exceptional written communication skills with ability to summarize complex data
  • Strong attention to detail and adaptability in fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

  • Own ROI reporting on growth investments across channels and campaigns
  • Act as the finance liaison for pricing, deal structuring, and deal desk operations
  • Maintain and analyze customer and growth economics for acquisition investments
  • Participate in go-to-market meetings, providing actionable analysis and recommendations
  • Collaborate with department leads on quarterly budget and headcount planning
  • Monitor budget adherence, identify variances, and escalate issues as needed
  • Support monthly forecasts by reconciling actuals and constructing variance analysis

Benefits

  • Full benefits package
  • Title and compensation commensurate with experience and performance
  • Exposure to executive leadership
  • Ground-floor opportunity in a small and dynamic finance team
  • Engagement with cross-departmental collaboration
  • Opportunity for automation and efficiency improvements in finance processes
Full Job Description
About Us

This is a ground-floor seat on a small finance team, and it's a genuinely embedded one. Most of your week will be spent with our go-to-market org - reporting on what our growth spend is actually returning, and acting as the finance counterpart on deal structure and pricing. The rest goes to the budget cycle, where you'll sit with department leads to build and defend their plans.

We're hiring for judgment and speed, not years served. If you're two years out of a banking analyst program, or a strong new grad who models well and writes clearly, you're the profile. You'll report to our Director of FP&A and get real exposure to the exec team.

What You'll Do

Be the finance partner to go-to-market
  • Own reporting on the ROI of our growth investments - by channel, campaign, and segment - so the team knows what's working and what to cut
  • Run Deal Desk: serve as the finance liaison on pricing, deal structure, and non-standard terms, and be the person go-to-market pulls in before a deal gets committed
  • Build and maintain the customer and growth economics that inform how we invest in acquisition
  • Sit in go-to-market's meetings, not just their inbox - translate their questions into analysis and hand back a recommendation instead of a spreadsheet

Run the budget cycle with the teams
  • Partner with department leads through quarterly budget and headcount planning - collect inputs, pressure-test them, and translate them into the plan
  • Track spend against budget, surface drift before it compounds, and flag what needs a decision
  • Build the analysis behind headcount, vendor, and resourcing calls - payback, cost-to-serve, build-vs-buy

Support forecasting and reporting
  • Support the monthly forecast cycle: pull and reconcile actuals, build the variance analysis, and draft the commentary that explains what moved and why
  • Maintain the schedules and drivers that feed the company operating model, working alongside the Director of FP&A
  • Help assemble the monthly and quarterly reporting packages for leadership, the board, and lenders

Automate anything you do twice
  • Replace recurring manual work with something durable - AI workflows, queries, dashboards, templates - so next month it takes minutes
  • Bring rigor to automated output: reconcile it, stress it, and know where it breaks before someone else finds out


Requirements

  • 0-2 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, Big 4, or a comparably analytical role - exceptional new grads welcome
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, engineering, mathematics, or another quantitative field
  • You build financial models from a blank sheet. Advanced Excel or Google Sheets is table stakes here, not a bullet point
  • Hands-on exposure to a real budgeting or forecasting cycle
  • AI is already the default in how you work, and you have the judgment to go with it: a reliable instinct for when a machine-generated answer is wrong, and the discipline to check before you forward it
  • You write clearly. You can compress a 40-tab model into three sentences a founder can act on
  • Extreme attention to detail, and comfort operating in ambiguity at speed - priorities here change faster than the plan does
  • Based in the US
Nice to Haves
  • SQL - you can pull your own data instead of filing a ticket
  • Python, or comparable scripting for analysis and automation
  • BI and analytics tooling (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Hex) and modern planning tools (Pigment, Cube, Aleph, NetSuite)
  • Fintech, banking, or lending background


$80,000 - $100,000 a year

$80,000 - $100,000 base, plus full benefits. Title and compensation are commensurate with experience, performance in the interview, and location.

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