Senior Financial Analyst; FP&A
Listed on 2026-03-07
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Finance & Banking
Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance
Location: St. Louis
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Position OverviewThe Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A) will play a critical role in supporting Colibri’s enterprise financial planning and analysis capabilities, with a primary focus on Adaptive Planning, financial modeling, and cross business unit consolidation.
This role is digital first and highly analytical, partnering closely with FP&A leadership, Accounting, Technology, and business leaders to drive high quality forecasts, budgets, and strategic insights. The ideal candidate brings strong spreadsheet and modeling skills, experience with financial planning software, and a mindset oriented toward automation, AI, and continuous improvement.
This position reports to the Senior Director, FP&A and is an individual contributor role with high visibility across the organization.
What You'll Do- Support and enhance Colibri’s Adaptive Planning environment, including model maintenance, data integrity, and reporting outputs
- Support the coordination of budgeting, forecasting, and long range planning processes across multiple business units or ecosystems
- Consolidate financial plans across divisions, ensuring consistency of assumptions, drivers, and outputs
- Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment between forecasted and actual results
- Build and maintain advanced financial models to support decision making, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation
- Support the roll‑out of next‑gen planning and analysis frameworks
- Support the development of driver based models for revenue, margins, headcount, and/or operating expenses
- Perform variance, trend, and sensitivity analysis to explain performance and inform leadership actions
- Support revenue modeling initiatives, including volume, pricing, mix, and cohort based analysis
- Executive Reporting & Presentations
- Prepare executive level financial presentations for:
- Monthly business and financial reviews
- Quarterly Board of Directors materials
- Annual budget and strategic planning cycles
- Translate complex financial analyses into clear, concise, decision oriented narratives for senior leadership
- Partner with FP&A leadership to ensure executive materials highlight key insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
- Ensure consistency, accuracy, and professionalism across all executive and board level financial deliverables
- Coordinate across FP&A to deliver executive ready financial reporting and insights for FP&A leadership and business partners
- Partner with functional leaders to understand key requirements for our Adaptive roll‑out and provide ongoing support
- Support Cap Ex, headcount, and investment planning analyses as needed and Systems, Automation & AI Enablement
- Act as a power user and continuous improvement of financial planning and reporting tools (Adaptive, Excel, BI tools)
- Leverage advanced Excel / spreadsheet techniques (complex formulas, Power Query, structured modeling, error controls)
- Explore and adopt AI enabled tools (e.g., Copilot, forecasting accelerators, automation tools) to improve speed, accuracy, and insight
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring analyses and improve FP&A workflows
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 4–7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or related roles
- Strong proficiency in Excel / spreadsheet based financial modeling
- Hands on experience with financial planning software (Adaptive Planning strongly preferred)
- Solid understanding of P&L drivers and financial statement relationships
- Experience preparing executive level financial…
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