Senior Financial Analyst
Job in
Cicero, Cook County, Illinois, 60804, USA
Listed on 2026-09-20
Listing for:
Grayson Search Partners
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-20
Job specializations:
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Finance & Banking
Financial Analyst, Financial Reporting, Corporate Finance, Senior Financial Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Our client is a rapidly growing, acquisition-oriented services organization seeking a high-performing Senior Financial Analyst to join its FP&A team.
This is a highly visible role with exposure to senior leadership and operating executives across the organization. The Senior Financial Analyst will play an important role in building and enhancing the company's financial planning, forecasting, and management reporting capabilities while providing analytical support for a growing portfolio of operating businesses.
The organization is in an exciting stage of growth, making this an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys both hands-on financial analysis and building better processes, models, and reporting infrastructure
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- Support and help drive the annual budget, rolling forecast and long-range planning processes.
- Build and maintain driver-based financial models, scenario analyses and sensitivity analyses.
- Analyze monthly financial performance, including budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual variances.
- Develop clear explanations of business performance, trends, risks and opportunities.
- Partner with operating leaders to improve forecast accuracy and align financial plans with business priorities.
- Develop recurring management reporting and KPI packages that provide greater visibility into financial and operating performance.
- Partner with leaders across the organization to understand business drivers and identify opportunities to improve performance.
- Translate financial and operational data into actionable insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Prepare executive-ready presentations, analyses, and other materials supporting key business decisions.
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis around growth initiatives, operating performance and strategic opportunities.
- Support financial analysis related to potential acquisitions and other strategic initiatives.
- Assist with the financial integration of newly acquired businesses, including reporting, forecasting and performance tracking.
- Help establish consistent financial reporting and planning processes across a growing portfolio of operating companies.
- Support post-acquisition analysis and tracking of key performance drivers.
- Help build scalable FP&A processes, reporting tools and financial models as the organization continues to grow.
- Improve the quality, consistency and accessibility of financial and operational data.
- Identify opportunities to automate and streamline recurring reporting and forecasting activities.
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools using Excel and business intelligence platforms.
- Support cash forecasting and other corporate finance initiatives as needed.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting.
- Approximately 3–6 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, transaction advisory, or a related analytical finance role.
- Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling and variance analysis.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and comfort working with large and sometimes imperfect data sets.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to identify the key business drivers behind financial results.
- Ability to communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Experience with in a private equity-backed, acquisition-oriented or high-growth organization
. - Experience supporting a multi-entity, multi-location or decentralized operating business.
- Exposure to M&A, financial due diligence or post-acquisition…
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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