Senior Financial Analyst

Bright Event Rentals

$110K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), investment banking, consulting, or a similar role
  • Advanced Excel skills for building comprehensive financial models
  • Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial statement interdependencies
  • Proven ability to communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
  • Detail-oriented with strong judgment regarding materiality
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
  • Preferred: Experience in private equity-backed companies, ERP systems, and SQL proficiency

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage budgeting and forecasting for the CA, AZ, and TX markets
  • Lead the annual budgeting process with department heads
  • Become a subject matter expert on financial systems
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify key performance indicators
  • Create monthly reports detailing budget variances
  • Serve as a finance resource in sales and operations planning
  • Conduct unit economics and cohort analysis for pricing strategies
  • Facilitate headcount planning across various departments
  • Execute the monthly forecasting processes with variance analyses
  • Enhance the reporting systems for efficiency and accuracy
  • Provide ad hoc analysis for strategic initiatives

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with cross-functional collaboration
  • Opportunity to influence financial systems and processes
  • Chance to develop advanced financial modeling skills
  • Ability to work closely with executive teams
  • Exposure to private equity processes and board-level presentations
Full Job Description
About the Job

We're looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to own budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting across our California, Arizona, and Texas markets. You'll partner closely with department heads, operations, and sales leadership to build forecasts, analyze performance, and turn financial data into clear, actionable insight. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who's comfortable building models from scratch, explaining the "why" behind the numbers to non-finance partners, and helping modernize how we report and forecast as the business grows.

What You'll Do
• Own and maintain the company's budget and forecast model for CA, AZ, and Texas, including the full P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and headcount forecasts
• Lead the annual budgeting cycle in partnership with department heads, from initial targets through board-ready consolidation
• Develop into a subject matter expert on financial systems, including their setup, limitations, and maintenance requirements
• Liaise with executive, management, and operational stakeholders to identify key performance indicators, their trends, and underlying drivers
• Build the monthly reporting package that identifies variances between budget and prior year (PY)
• Partner with centers of excellence across sales and operations as an embedded finance resource - pressure-testing assumptions, sizing initiatives, and building business cases for new investment
• Develop unit economics and cohort analysis to inform pricing, purchasing, and timing decisions
• Support headcount planning across SG&A and COGS in partnership with Operations and Human Resources
• Run the monthly forecast process for CA, AZ, and Texas; deliver variance analysis against budget and prior forecast with clear explanations of drivers
• Improve the reporting stack - automating manual work, tightening data definitions, and reducing close-to-insight cycle time while improving accuracy
• Support ad hoc analysis for strategic projects as needed

Requirements

What You Bring (Required)
• 3-5 years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, consulting, corporate finance, or a comparable analytical role
• Advanced Excel modeling skills - able to build a driver-based three-statement model from a blank sheet
• Strong grounding in accounting fundamentals and how the three statements connect
• Demonstrated ability to explain financial results to non-financial partners, with strong relationship-building skills
• High attention to detail paired with good judgment about what's material and what isn't
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field

What You Bring (Preferred)
• Private equity-backed company experience
• Experience with a planning tool (Planful, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, etc.) and an ERP (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, SAP)
• SQL proficiency and comfort working directly with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
• Prior experience in the rental industry
• Experience supporting a board or an audit
• MBA, CPA, or CFA

Salary Description

$110,000-$120,000

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