Senior Finance Analyst

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to help drive our financial planning and decision support construction vehicle. You will be a critical member of the team helping ensure that we’re using the right information to make decisions that make for a smooth ride. In this highly visible role you will have the opportunity to drive meaningful strategic initiatives by working closely with senior leaders across the company. Help us pave the way to a better, pothole-free Discord.

What you'll be doing

• Building and maintaining detailed financial models and forecasts
• Highlighting and understanding major assumptions and their effects on the budget/forecast
• Partnering with leadership on monthly, annual, and long-range strategy, budget and forecast planning
• Using finance modeling to inform business decisions, drive growth, and support the management team
• Creating a monthly reporting package that includes financial operating statements, comprehensive KPIs, operational dashboard reporting, analysis of key business trends, analysis of operating results against budget, prior periods and forecasts, and comprehensive executive level explanations
• Continuously developing systems and processes, evaluating current processes, identifying best practices, developing plans to reach goals and implement improvements, and driving for automation
• Providing ad hoc analytical support to influence decision making with financial perspective

What you should have

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting preferred
• 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A (ideally within a subscription/SAAS consumer business)
• Advanced Excel; business modeling & SQL skills required
• Sophisticated financial modeling — a bility to build models from scratch, improve existing models for new company initiatives, and clearly define drivers within the models and follow up with stakeholders to test the result effectiveness
• Strong capabilities for developing and presenting analyses and insights to senior management
• Experience using FP&A tools (e.g. Adaptive, Anaplan, etc) and reporting from ERP systems (Intacct)
• Experience using BI and analytics tools (e.g. Chartio)
• Exceptional business judgment; capable of driving results with a focused, pragmatic approach
• Ability to formulate strategies and identify trends through research and analysis of various data
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to guide and influence senior leadership

Bonus Points

• You have a license to operate large road construction vehicles and know how to pave roads
• You don’t but can probably figure it out