FP&A Analyst

About Us:

Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 350 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the financial planning, reporting, and budgeting processes across the DVT portfolio of businesses
• Partner with key business leads to lead the budget, planning, and forecast formulation and execution
• Generate monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting insights by gathering and analyzing data as well as actuals/projection variances
• Identify relevant trends and key variance drivers. Advise leadership of opportunities and risk impacting the firm
• Identify process improvements to reduce process cycle times, improve financial forecast quality, and enhance information provided to leadership for business decisions
• Develop credibility and build partnerships with the accounting team and other key stakeholders across DV to facilitate efficiency, knowledge sharing, and opportunities for process improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related degree
• 3+ years of financial planning and analysis experience
• Ability to collect, clean, and interpret large data sets across multiple systems to provide insightful analysis
• Experience in planning, coordinating, and executing multiple work streams simultaneously
• Strong grasp of income sheet, balance sheet, and cash flow financial statements interactions
• Ability to analyze financial results and assess financial impacts of business decisions.
• Experience working within a G/L system, Microsoft Dynamics preferred
• Advanced Excel knowledge and skills (including Power Query) PowerPoint; SQL and/or Python a plus
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• A tech forward approach to managing day to day tasks – we love to automate and make things more efficient and so should you!
• Strong problem solver with the ability to navigate ambiguity and leverage your resources.
• The desire to take ownership of projects and ideas, while being able to identify gaps and other areas of improvement.
• The ability to adapt to a dynamic and ever-changing environment – we are in high growth mode and move quickly to achieve business goals

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