Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Develop the annual operating budget, monthly forecasts, quarterly re-forecasts, and associated financial documentation for the company.

• Facilitate planning timelines, inputs, assumptions, and deliverables in collaboration with finance and business partners.

• Create budgets and forecasts for revenue, direct costs, indirect costs, research and development, as well as general and administrative expenses.

• Work with department executives to formulate labor, headcount, and departmental budgets and forecasts.

• Maintain supporting schedules, assumptions, and financial models.

• Conduct scenario and sensitivity analyses.

• Assess forecast accuracy and enhance planning assumptions, methodologies, and processes.

• Assist with long-term financial planning, strategic modeling, and multi-year business projections.

• Generate weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial and operational reports for senior management.

• Create executive-ready reporting packages, dashboards, and key performance indicators.

• Analyze actual results compared to budgets, forecasts, and prior periods.

• Provide variance explanations, revenue/gross-margin/EBITDA bridge analyses, and financial presentations.

• Present financial results and analyses to senior leadership.

• Prepare financial materials for the Board of Directors, private equity sponsors, lenders, and other stakeholders.

• Analyze revenue pipelines, bookings, backlogs, contract values, pipeline conversions, program performance, profitability, and forecast risks.

• Review estimates at completion, estimates to complete, and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition assumptions.

• Assist with cash forecasting and monthly cash flow reporting.

• Collaborate with Accounting during monthly close to resolve data discrepancies, classification issues, and unexplained variances.

• Enhance, standardize, and automate forecasting, reporting, and analytical processes.

• Develop scalable models, templates, and reporting tools.

• Support Workday Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, and other financial reporting tools.

• Collaborate with Program Management, Human Resources, Business Development, and operational managers.

• Contribute to FP&A initiatives and special projects as assigned by the Senior Director of FP&A.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or 5-10 years of relevant experience.

• Proven experience in preparing annual budgets, periodic forecasts, variance analyses, project profitability analysis, and management reporting packages.

• Experience in preparing and delivering financial reports and presentations for senior or executive management.

• Strong financial modeling and problem-solving skills.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

• Proven proficiency in PowerPoint.

• Ability to analyze large or complex data sets and translate the findings into clear business insights.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present financial information to senior executives.

• Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple priorities and meet recurring deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively across finance and operational functions.

• Experience in a private equity-backed company or another fast-paced, performance-driven environment is preferred.

• Background in professional services, technology services, or project-based businesses with contract- or project-level financial reporting is preferred.

• Knowledge of labor utilization, headcount planning, revenue forecasting, bookings, backlog management, business development pipelines, and cash flow forecasting is preferred.

• Experience using Workday Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, and business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms is preferred.

• Experience supporting executive leadership, board, lender, or investor reporting and decision-making is preferred.

• Familiarity with generative AI, predictive analytics, and emerging technologies is preferred.

• Candidate must work and reside within the US.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Consideration without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.