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Role Title:Senior Financial Analyst – Little Leaves & Shared Services
Reports to:Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Location:Philadelphia, PA (flexible/remote opportunities)
Travel:Expected travel up to 10%
Our Company:
FullBloom is a leading education services platform, providing academic intervention, special education programs, and behavioral health services for primarily K-12 students. FullBloom partners with more than 1,100 school districts and serves over 100,000 children annually across 41 states and Washington D.C. The company was founded in 1976, is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, and employs approximately 7,800 educators and health professionals.
This Position:
The Senior Financial Analyst will be a strategic and analytical business partner who owns strategy and analysis For Little Leaves and Shared Services. This person adds value by driving thoughtful, timely and accurate financial and data insights. This collaborative and self-motivated individual will have opportunities to contribute to decision-making processes through reporting and analysis. This role will be based out of the Philadelphia, PA office, but flexible/remote work arrangements may be considered.
The PersonWe’reExcited to Add to Our Team:
A collaborative, thoughtful, curious, and self-motivated individual that is driven to contribute to decision-making processes and strategic growth through data, reporting, and analytics.
- Is skilled at thinking strategically and can quickly spot and execute on improvement opportunities
- Has an ability to organize and drive execution while flexible to shift with continuously evolving priorities
- Is a strong relationship builder with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Is a strong cultural fit that brings a high level of ethical, professional, and personal values to the role every day
- Has a desire to be challenged daily by a continually growing and advancing organization
The Skills That Will Help You Succeed:
- A love of data and enthusiasm for complex problem solving utilizing financial modeling and analysis, including advanced Excel skills managing large data sets and best-in-class FP&A practices
- An aptitude for translating detailed data and analyses into concise, thoughtful executive summaries
- A high level of curiosity and ability to question assumptions thoughtfully and respectfully
- Knowledge of a services business
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare the analysis of monthly and quarterly financial results and key performance indicators against Budget, Forecast and other internal benchmarks. Identify and explain variances and trends in the business and communicate this information to the operations team on a timely basis.
- Prepare and review monthly and quarterly financial forecasts in partnership with the operations team, including the identification of risks and opportunities. Provide consultative input and business analysis to support operating planning and forecasting.
- Drive a culture of FP&A excellence across the company, where FP&A is viewed as a key strategic partner
- Support accurate and timely tracking and reporting of the financial results (both P&L and cash flow) for significant business/operational initiatives.
- Ownership of Annual Budgeting, Quarterly Forecasting and Financial Planning processes in partnership with leadership within both Little Leaves and Shared Services.
- Provide advanced financial modeling for ad hoc and complex analyses, including scenarios & sensitivities – major focus on labor utilization across the business unit
- Actively identify ways to eliminate non-value-added work and leverages automation whenever possible
Qualifications and Skills
- 5+ years of financial analysis experience
- An undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or a related discipline is required; an advanced degree in Finance or an MBA is highly desirable
- Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills including v-lookups, pivots, sumifs, and complex formulas
- Strong aptitude for working with large data sets, and excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Demonstrated experience handling complex modeling and analysis leveraging large data sets
- Experience supporting all financial statements; comfortable speaking to key financial metrics and drivers
- Experience supporting commercial and operational functional areas with deep analytical analyses on business trends, and have provided insights on identifying and measuring KPI’s
- Comfortable taking on early-stage ad hoc analyses and driving them through review and completion
- Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work with constantly changing priorities
- Self-motivated, curious, proactive individual who constantly seeks improvement opportunities
- Demonstrated ability to work across functions and with all levels of management
- Ability to work independently and as a member of cross-functional teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to a variety of audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with advanced financial planning tools such Adaptive Planning
- Experience working in an Enterprise Data Warehouse and developing Microsoft Power BI dashboards
- Experience creating and using Macros
- Experience working in a complex global organization; services experience a plus
- Experience supporting executive level presentations, concisely summarizing financial results and variances
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