FP&A Analyst, Finance
Role Overview
We are building a structured, data-driven FP&A function to join our lean accounting & finance team. This role will work directly alongside the CFO and Controller to design, build, and operationalize the company's financial planning, forecasting, and performance infrastructure.
The position requires strong financial modeling capability, structured analytical thinking, comfort working with imperfect data, and a proactive mindset toward process improvement, automation and AI. This individual will serve as both builder and operator - establishing scalable financial discipline in an evolving environment.
This is a hands-on architect role for someone who wants to shape the financial operating system of a growing firm. The firm operates across multiple geographies, and this role will support financial planning and reporting across international business units.
Core Responsibilities
- Development and execution of annual budget and rolling forecast process
- Support function leaders and practice heads on budgeting best practices
- Support LT/ST and rolling forecast frameworks
- Perform monthly Budget vs. Actual (BvA) analysis
- Improve forecast discipline, assumptions transparency, and forecast accuracy
- Support cash flow visibility and working capital modeling
- Perform sensitivity analysis and scenario planning for strategic decisions
- Identify trends in revenue, margin, productivity, and cost discipline
- Build repeatable, scalable reporting frameworks
- Clean and structure historical financial and operational data
- Standardize KPI definitions across offices and practices
- Support consolidation of multi-entity, multi-currency financial reporting across global offices
- Improve financial and non-financial data governance and documentation standards
- Support system improvements and reporting infrastructure upgrades across the firm
- Assist in evaluation, vetting, and improvement of financial and non-financial systems
- Support & contribute to AI adoption across Finance
- Utilize AI tools to accelerate model building, variance analysis, and scenario generation
- Explore and assist with the implementation of AI-assisted forecasting and productivity analytics workflows
- Explore AI applications for pipeline analysis, fee trend detection, and predictive modeling
- Support and develop firmwide metrics, KPI's and analysis
- Develop firmwide KPI dashboards and standardized performance metrics using both financial and operational data
- Support performance analysis and pipeline reporting
- Support strategic initiatives with ROI and scenario modeling
- Perform ad-hoc analysis as needed
Required Experience
- 2-4 years in FP&A, financial analysis, strategic finance, or investment banking
- Experience in professional services, recruiting, advisory, or other people-driven businesses preferred
- Demonstrated experience building multi-scenario financial models from scratch
- Experience operating in imperfect or evolving data environments
- Experience supporting budgeting
- Experience supporting or working within a multinational or multi-entity environment preferred
Technical Skills
- Advanced modeling and excel
- Strong understanding of 3-statement modeling concepts
- Experience with BI or analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.)
- Comfort manipulating datasets and improving data structure
- Experience with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) and workflow automation
- Ability to translate raw data into executive-ready visuals
- Familiarity with multi-currency consolidations and intercompany reporting
Cultural & Personal Attributes
- Builder mindset - comfortable creating structure where none exists
- Strong analytical discipline with commercial awareness
- High ownership mentality
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Systems thinker who values clarity and precision
- Strong written and verbal communicator
- Coachable, collaborative, and intellectually curious
- Naturally proactive
