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Financial Analyst

Cambridge, MA 02139

Posted: 02/06/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Accounting & Finance Job Number: 628159 Is job remote?: Yes Country: United States

Job Description


Seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst with professional experience in financial planning, budgeting and analysis to serve as a finance business partner to several internal departments. The departments supported include highly matrixed indirect spending and/or full P&L impact. 

Essential Functions:
- Dedicated Finance business partner to internal departments to develop budgets, forecasts, variance analysis and expense monitoring. Provide actionable recommendations that support the organization goals. Add insight to supported departments through enhanced reporting and financial analysis with guidance from FP&A management.
- Responsible for soliciting capital budget requests from supported departments, analyzing ROI, prioritizing and presenting results to FP&A management. Once approved, track actual spending and update forecasts for future expenditures as needed.
- Develop, maintain and continuously improve recurring financial reporting for senior and executive leadership.
- Perform data integrity and validation during month-end close, including transactional research from financial system and source documents. Guide less experienced analysts on completion of this recurring task.
- Identify, initiate and support other ad hoc analyses and projects as required. Gather & analyze data from disparate sources, develop hypotheses & conclusions, and present analytical results to both FP&A and operational management.    

Qualifications:   
- 7+ years of previous financial planning, budgeting and analysis experience.
- Strong Excel and hands-on experience with analysis and modeling in conjunction with financial tools (e.g., Adaptive, Tableau, PeopleSoft, etc.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Successful candidate should be confident in their abilities to work efficiently and independently as well as within a team environment.
- Success in the role requires a high level of accuracy, productivity and flexibility to multitask various projects within a deadline driven environment. 

Preferred:  
- MBA or other advanced degree in a related discipline
- Prior experience with a DoD contractor
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