Strategic Financial Analyst, Fp&A

We're looking for a Strategic Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team in a role built around business partnership. This isn't a back-office reporting seat — you'll sit at the table with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and key functional stakeholders, translating financial data into insight that shapes real decisions. You'll be the analytical backbone behind planning, forecasting, and performance conversations, while acting as a trusted advisor who challenges assumptions, surfaces risks and opportunities, and helps leaders see around corners. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable building a rigorous financial model and presenting its implications to a VP or C-suite executive — someone who can move fluidly between the details and the "so what".

What You'll Do

• Business Partnership: Serve as the primary finance point of contact for one or more business units or functions, building trusted relationships with the ELT and senior stakeholders
• Planning & Forecasting: Own the annual budget, monthly forecast, and long-range planning processes for your area(s), ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with company goals.
• Performance Analysis: Analyze monthly/quarterly financial results versus budget and forecast, identifying key drivers of variance and translating them into clear, actionable narratives for leadership.
• Decision Support: Partner with stakeholders on strategic initiatives — pricing, headcount planning, investment cases, new product launches — building financial models and business cases to support decision‑making.
• Executive Reporting: Prepare board-ready and ELT-ready materials, including monthly business reviews, KPI dashboards, and ad hoc analyses that connect financial performance to strategic priorities.
• Insight Generation: Proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities in the business and bring recommendations to stakeholders before they ask.
• Process Improvement: Continuously improve forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and the tools/systems used across FP&A (e.g., Adaptive, Excel/Google Sheets modeling).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Accounting, Sales, Operations, and other departments to ensure consistent, accurate financial data across the organization.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, or a related analytical role.
• Demonstrated experience presenting to and influencing senior leaders (VP-level and above)
• Advanced financial modeling skills in Excel/Google Sheets; comfort building models from scratch.
• Experience with FP&A or BI tools (e.g., Adaptive Insights, NetSuite, Tableau, Power BI) a strong plus.
• Strong SQL or data manipulation skills a plus but not required.
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex financial concepts into clear, business‑relevant language for non-finance audiences.
• A natural business partner: curious, proactive, and comfortable pushing back constructively when the data tells a different story.
• High attention to detail balanced with the ability to zoom out and see the bigger picture.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and prioritizing across competing demands in a fast-paced environment

What Success Looks Like

• ELT and key stakeholders view you as a go-to thought partner, not just a numbers provider.
• Forecasts and budgets are increasingly accurate and trusted across the organization.
• Your analysis directly informs strategic decisions — pricing changes, investment approvals, resource allocation.
• Finance is seen as embedded in the business, not siloed from it

$120,000 - $140,000 a year

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT US:

• We are laid back but buttoned up. We offer a casual work environment and remote work flexibility and have a passion for developing creative, innovative best in class solutions that directly contribute to the success of our customers
• We care deeply and deliver service and solutions that make a real difference in the lives of our clients and their businesses
• We openly accept others as they are and build strong partnerships based on trust
• Teamwork and collaboration is key to help our colleagues and customers solve their challenges
• Our team is energetic, fun, naturally inquisitive and eager to make an impact, we invite you to join us!

LOVE WHAT YOU DO, NO MATTER WHERE YOU DO IT:

• Join our Remote-First Global Work Community: WorkWave provides an innovative and dynamic remote-first Global Work Community that encourages growth, creativity, and collaboration. No matter what stage of your career or where you live, WorkWave is your place to be part of a global company with a startup feel, where your ideas matter and your growth is a priority.

A GLOBAL COMPANY WITH A LOCAL PRESENCE:

• We know that there are benefits of being in the office and working from home. WorkWave promotes a healthy work/life balance and provides employees with the flexibility of collaborating in the office or the option to work virtually if desired. Our teams are well versed at working collaboratively in a fully virtual environment.
• Our HQ is based at our state of the art home office in the historic Bell Works complex located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey. We keep our offices available to all to use when working remotely isn’t feasible, or to help with cross training, team building and/or brainstorming.
• We have employees in over 30 states, 7 countries and many regional offices - each with their own set

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