Finance Analyst

About Skillz

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform dedicated to bringing out the best in everyone through competition. As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games, and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The Skillz platform empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide to build the home of competition for all. Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and the number-one fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000. www.skillz.com

What We’re Looking For:

The Finance Analyst will manage our business operational and financial health. You will work closely and productively with department leaders and executive management to influence, refine, and implement strategy. The ideal candidate will have worked in a successful high-growth company and can bring such experiences to Skillz as we continue to define the future of esports and mobile gaming.

The role is operational where the key outcomes are to:

• Support the Finance organization to meet strategic goals and deliverables
• Responsible for supporting the leadership team to interpret financial data to track against financial objectives
• Provision commercial systems, processes, reports, and management information that enable analysis, recommendations, and review of actions for business opportunities, projects, and gap closure
• Partner with the broader Finance and business organization to build robust reporting tools and provide superior service to business partners/internal clients
• Servicing business partners with regular and ad-hoc analysis of information to provide insight into relevant business drivers
• Providing objective and relevant analysis and modeling to support the development of budgets and business plans

The outlook of the role is primarily internal. Internally the role must work collaboratively with the finance segment leads, global accounting teams, and Senior Leadership team.

What You Will Do :

• Build new and/or run and maintain existing monthly reporting packages to ensure a consistent operating rhythm
• Reporting emphasis on financial consolidation
• Modify and develop new reports to deliver enhanced information and insights
• Evaluate an appropriate dashboarding solution for the organization and drive implementation
• Develop compelling dashboards and data visualizations using field-proven formats
• Implement reporting best practices and standardize existing reports
• Create timely and insightful data sources to facilitate decision making
• Collaborate with finance and business segment leads to identify reporting gaps and create solutions
• Partner with Corporate stakeholders and finance business partners to ensure reporting needs are met
• Generate profitability reporting that can lead to internal customer self-service
• Develop data governance process to align consolidated financials across various departmental reports

Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Finance, Accounting, or similar
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in financial management and operations function at a fast-growing company; experience with B2C online businesses strongly preferred
• Advanced skill sets in:
• SQL
• At least one of the following: Power BI, Tableau, Qlikview, or a similar BI dashboard tool
• Tooling experience: Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, macros
• Preferred but not required: Data transformation tools such as Alteryx, Tableau Prep, etc.
• Demonstrates a thorough level of knowledge in cost accounting methods, including activity-based costing, unit costing, standard costing methods with variances, and residual analysis
• Demonstrates a thorough level of experience in cost study design and oversight, including the use and maintenance of standard cost frameworks for the integration of cost studies with existing model methodologies
• Demonstrates a thorough level of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) in internet-based companies
• Proven record of success in running and updating cost modeling systems (data, hierarchy, rules, etc.); supporting Standard and Forecast unit costs, variance reporting, cost maintenance, operational metrics, and scorecards
• Broad range of capabilities, including being an executor who can communicate problems and their solutions
• Ability to take high-level strategic perspectives while not being afraid to delve into the details of specific analyses
• Ability to interact with and influence people at all levels of an organization
• High degree of financial and analytical process leadership and business acumen
• Excellent financial modeling and analytical skills for budgeting & forecasting, combined with strong attention to detail
• Ability to present complex information in a usable format to a diverse audience
• Experience establishing, implementing, and adhering to process improvement initiatives within a high-growth environment

Personal Characteristics

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with the feel of a start-up
• Driven by Skillz’s mission and committed to embodying the core values, including honor, collaboration, willingness, and balance, into all work-related initiatives