Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance & Financial Modeling

Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance & Financial Modeling

The Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance & Financial Modeling reports to the VP, Finance and serves as a high-impact individual contributor focused on investment-banking-quality financial analysis, modeling, and strategic decision support. This role will build and maintain driver-based financial models, evaluate business cases and investment opportunities, and turn complex data into clear recommendations for senior leadership. The ideal candidate brings strong technical modeling discipline, business judgment, and the ability to operate as a trusted thought partner on high-priority financial and strategic initiatives.

The Senior Financial Analyst, Strategic Finance & Financial Modeling reports to the VP, Finance and serves as a high-impact individual contributor at the intersection of finance, data, and strategy. The role leverages advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled insights to drive forward-looking decision‑making and elevate financial impact. This individual builds dynamic, driver‑based models, develops predictive scenarios, and evaluates strategic investments to inform business direction.

Moving beyond traditional reporting, the role translates complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical expertise with a data‑driven mindset, sound business judgment, and the ability to operate as a strategic thought partner‑proactively identifying opportunities, challenging assumptions, and using modern tools to enable faster, more informed decisions.

• Build and own dynamic financial models to support forecasting, scenario analysis, valuation, ROI, and capital allocation decisions.
• Develop business cases for growth initiatives, new products, partnerships, pricing decisions, cost actions, and other strategic investments.
• Partner with the VP, Finance to prepare executive‑ready analyses, investment memos, and presentation materials for senior leadership.
• Translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical frameworks, operating assumptions, sensitivities, and recommendations.
• Maintain driver‑based models for revenue, margin, operating expense, headcount, working capital, and cash flow.
• Perform variance analysis, profitability analysis, unit economics, KPI tracking, and sensitivity analysis to identify risks and opportunities.
• Support M&A and corporate development‑style analyses, including valuation, diligence support, synergy assessment, and integration modeling as needed.
• Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Data/Analytics, and business leaders to ensure model inputs are accurate, reconciled, and actionable.
• Improve financial reporting packages, dashboards, and recurring management views that increase visibility into performance drivers.
• Establish model governance, documentation, QA checks, and version control to ensure accuracy, repeatability, and auditability.
• Lead ad hoc strategic finance projects and analyses requested by the VP, Finance or senior leadership.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights that influence business decisions
• Build predictive models and scenario analyses to guide strategic planning
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual financial processes
• Leverage data tools (e.g., dashboards, scripting, AI tools) to improve speed and accuracy of insights
• Shift analysis from historical reporting to trend identification and forward projections
• Partner with leaders to proactively identify risks and opportunities
• Act as a strategic advisor to business leaders, not just a reporting function
• Challenge assumptions using data and provide recommendations, not just analysis

• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, including fully linked models, scenarios, sensitivities, and clear output summaries.
• Investment banking, corporate development, or strategic finance‑style analytical rigor and attention to detail.
• Strong business judgment; ability to connect model outputs to practical recommendations and decisions.
• Clear communicator who can explain assumptions, trade‑offs, and implications to finance and…