Job Description Summary:The Senior Financial Analyst provides advanced financial insight, analysis, and modeling to support strategic and operational decision-making across the organization. This role partners closely with executive and functional leaders in Finance, Product, Operations, and other key business areas to evaluate performance, identify growth opportunities, and inform investment decisions. The Senior Financial Analyst plays a critical role in budgeting, forecasting, and process improvement efforts, offering strategic recommendations that help Amplify achieve its financial and product development goals. The ideal candidate takes pride in producing accurate work on time, taking initiative to solve complex business problems, and communicating effectively with a diverse set of key partners.
Essential Responsibilities:- Serve as the primary FP&A partner for multiple departments across the organization, proactively identifying financial risks and opportunities and improving processes.
- Lead monthly financial performance reviews with department heads, delivering variance analysis, root cause assessments, forward-looking recommendations, and communicating actionable insights to leadership.
- Lead cross-functional process improvement initiatives, developing scalable workflows and automated solutions that reduce manual effort and increase reporting accuracy.
- Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and reporting packages that track key financial and operational KPIs to guide data-driven decision-making.
- Lead the end-to-end FTE reporting process for budgeting and forecasting, serving as the subject matter expert for workforce data.
- Drive data integrity initiatives by partnering with the People/HR team to improve cross-functional workforce planning processes.
- Define, propose, and champion system enhancements and data infrastructure improvements based on business challenges, performance trends, and strategic outcomes to improve reporting and forecast accuracy.
Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- 5+ years of financial analysis experience within a corporate Finance or FP&A environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and project-based analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets.
- Proven ability to analyze complex business problems using financial modeling and large data sets.
- Experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Ability to extract, manipulate, and synthesize data from financial and operational systems.
- Strong project management and excellent communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple high-priority deliverables simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in the Education, Technology, or Publishing industries.
- Advanced financial modeling expertise.
- Familiarity with Salesforce, NetSuite, Pigment, Tableau and/or Looker.
- Experience with 3-statement modeling.
- Prior experience at a Big 4 accounting firm or management consulting firm is a plus.
