Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst - Eureka

Position Summary

Inter Bel Telephone Cooperative is seeking a highly analytical FP&A Analyst to support the CFO with financial planning, monthly close, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis.

This position will analyze financial and operational data from ERP, OSS/BSS, billing, and other business systems to identify trends, reconcile information, improve reporting, and provide actionable insights to leadership. The ideal candidate understands how financial and operational data flows through an organization and can translate complex information into clear business insights.

Telecommunications or broadband experience is highly desirable, particularly experience with billing, OSS/BSS, ERP, or telecom financial data.

• Assist the CFO with monthly financial close and preparation of monthly financial reporting packages.
• Analyze monthly financial results, including actual-to-budget and actual-to-prior-period variances.
• Prepare financial schedules, management reports, dashboards, and supporting analysis for leadership and the Board of Directors.
• Assist with annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning.
• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Identify financial trends, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring additional investigation.
• Support the CFO with ad hoc financial analysis and special projects.

• Analyze financial and operational data across the Company's ERP, OSS/BSS, billing, and other business systems.
• Reconcile information between systems and investigate discrepancies in financial and operational data.
• Develop and maintain recurring financial reports and analytical tools.
• Identify data quality issues and work with Finance, Operations, and Information Technology to resolve them.
• Analyze revenue, subscriber, product, expense, capital, labor, and other key operating metrics.
• Develop meaningful KPIs and reporting to improve management's understanding of business performance.

• Utilize business intelligence platforms to develop dashboards, reports, data visualizations, and analytical tools.
• Create and maintain data queries and reporting processes used by Finance and other departments.
• Assist in evaluating the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of data flowing through ERP and OSS/BSS environments.
• Work collaboratively with IT and operational teams to understand system architecture, data sources, and business processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting and improve the efficiency and accuracy of financial analysis.
• Support ERP, billing, and OSS/BSS system implementations, conversions, upgrades, and data validation as needed.

• Assist the CFO and accounting team with monthly closing activities.
• Review financial information for completeness, accuracy, and reasonableness.
• Assist with account reconciliations, journal entry analysis, accruals, and other close-related activities.
• Investigate unusual transactions, variances, and changes in financial results.
• Help ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and supported by appropriate documentation.

• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Customer Service, Sales, IT, and other departments to understand business performance and financial results.
• Translate operational data into financial and business insights.
• Provide analytical support for capital projects, broadband expansion, pricing, product profitability, and other strategic initiatives.
• Assist in developing financial business cases and return-on-investment analyses.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Experience in financial analysis, accounting, FP&A, financial reporting, or a related analytical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience using business intelligence platforms to analyze data and develop reports, dashboards, or visualizations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including large…