CM - Financial Analyst

Employ empowers organizations of all sizes to overcome their greatest recruiting and talent acquisition challenges. Offering a combination of purpose-built intelligent software technologies, services, and industry expertise, Employ provides businesses of all sizes with powerful solutions for recruiting a diverse workforce. Through its JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite technologies and NXTThing RPO services, Employ serves more than 21,000 customers across all industries. For more information, visit us at www.employinc.com.

Reporting to the Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis (and frequent, direct interaction with the VP of Financial Planning & Analysis), the Financial Analyst will join a fast-paced organization, playing a central role in providing financial support and guidance as part of the monthly/quarterly close, forecast activities and the annual planning process.

As the Financial Analyst, you will primarily provide financial reporting and analysis across our Business Finance function, initially supporting our Sales and Marketing organization, with an opportunity to rotate to other functions over time.  This role will also be responsible for certain company-wide reporting, planning, and assisting with FP&A’s scale and data analytics strategy.  Your work and insight will directly contribute to Employ’s incredible growth story. You are highly analytical, data-driven, detail-oriented, comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and effectively balancing multiple priorities.

What you will do:

• Be a valued and integral part of our global team, engaging with various levels of leadership.
• Business partnering within our Sales and Marketing teams within the organization.
• Provide financial modeling support in the areas of bookings, churn, renewals, and revenue metrics.
• Manage key functional investments, headcount, and expense reporting to provide enhanced trend analysis and insights across your business partners.
• Perform monthly variance analyses of budget/forecast against actual financial performance, surfacing the “why” behind variances versus plan/forecast.
• Collaborate with Accounting to ensure expenses are captured appropriately and to validate material variances are appropriate/explainable during the monthly close.
• Support the automation of KPI reporting in collaboration with the Business Intelligence Finance team to improve data accessibility, reliability, and time to publication.
• Collaborate across all finance teams to assist in implementing and administrating key financial reporting/planning systems.
• Establish and cultivate strong relationships throughout the organization at all levels.
• Deliver and craft high-quality presentations for senior executives, investors, and lenders.

What will you bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Finance or Accounting
• The ability to work Eastern Time Zone business hours.
• 2 to 4 years of progressive experience in finance in a corporate setting, SaaS experience preferred.
• Possess strong financial and operational analytical capabilities and a genuine interest in understanding the business drivers and economics of a high growth Subscription business.
• Strong track record of working cross-functionally to support critical business objectives.
• Comfortable developing analysis and recommendations in the presence of ambiguity by asking questions and challenging the status quo when appropriate.
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, macros, nested formulas) required.
• Experience working in NetSuite is a strong plus.
• Experience working in Adaptive Planning / Forecasting, including building planning models and reports.
• Experience with data visualization tools, e.g., Tableau and/or Microsoft Power BI is preferred.
• There could be modest travel associated with this role or <10%

Employ is an equal opportunity employer.
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