Lead Financial Analyst

Our client is seeking a high-potential Lead Financial Analyst to join its finance organization in Duluth, Georgia. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Finance, FP&A, this individual will serve as a hands‑on analytical resource with primary responsibility for building high‑quality financial models and evaluating a range of business scenarios to support informed decision‑making.

This role is designed for a technically strong finance professional who enjoys working deeply in data, translating business questions into rigorous analyses, and developing clear, flexible models that help leadership understand potential outcomes, risks, and value drivers.

This person will combine advanced Excel and modeling capabilities with sound business judgment, strong accounting and finance fundamentals, and the discipline to produce accurate, decision-ready work.

• Build and maintain detailed financial models to evaluate business scenarios, strategic alternatives, operating decisions, and potential investments.
• Perform scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and what-if analysis to quantify the impact of changes in revenue, pricing, volume, cost structure, labor, margins, capital requirements, and other key business drivers.
• Develop business cases and decision-support analyses for the Vice President of Finance, FP&A and other senior leaders.
• Ensure models are accurate, transparent, well‑structured, and flexible enough to support changing assumptions and multiple use cases.
• Clearly document methodologies, assumptions, data sources, and model outputs.
• Support annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long‑range planning processes.
• Develop and maintain revenue, profitability, cash flow, and operational performance models.
• Analyze monthly results against budget, forecast, and prior‑year performance, identifying key drivers of variances.
• Assist with recurring and ad hoc analyses that help leadership evaluate financial and operational performance.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through detailed quantitative analysis.

• Support the evaluation of pricing decisions, customer and service‑line profitability, market expansion opportunities, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Analyze potential investments and strategic initiatives using ROI, payback, cash flow, and other relevant financial metrics.
• Support acquisition, integration, and other strategic projects through data analysis and financial modeling.
• Convert complex data sets and business assumptions into concise insights and practical recommendations.

• Prepare accurate financial analyses, schedules, dashboards, and presentation materials for senior leadership and other stakeholders.
• Assist in enhancing recurring management reporting and KPI analysis.
• Partner with Accounting and other data owners as needed to validate source information and maintain consistency across analyses.
• Use Net Suite, Power BI, Excel, and AI‑enabled tools such as Claude to improve the speed, accuracy, and scalability of financial analysis.
• Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and improve financial models, reporting processes, and data quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Approximately 2–6 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, transaction advisory, consulting, or another analytically intensive finance environment.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, forecasting, and business‑case development.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and the ability to work efficiently with large and complex data sets.
• Strong understanding of…