Financial Analyst

What We're Looking For: 

Barge Design Solutions is seeking a Financial Analyst. This role supports strategic decision‑making through advanced financial analysis and reporting while enhancing reporting, analytics, and automation capabilities across the finance function. This role serves as a trusted business partner to operational leaders by delivering clear, timely insights and continuously improving how financial data is produced, visualized, and consumed. This position reports to the Director of Finance. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models, forecasts, and budgets.  
• Perform variance analysis on actuals against forecast and budget, identifying risks, opportunities, and underlying drivers. 
• Support executive, and management presentations through clear storytelling and actionable insights. 
• Design, develop, and maintain intuitive, scalable financial reports and dashboards in Power BI and related tools 
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, decision‑ready visuals and narratives for multiple levels of leadership. 
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) across revenue, expense, margin, and project performance. 
• Enhance and automate reporting and analytical processes, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy, consistency, and timeliness. 
• Improve and modernize Excel‑based financial models using advanced formulas, Power Query, and other automation techniques. 
• Identify opportunities to standardize recurring reports and workflows across forecast, budget, and month‑end cycles. 
• Document processes, assumptions, and data flows to ensure repeatability, transparency, and scalability. 
• Support data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution related to reporting datasets and models. 

 Education & Experience Qualifications: 

• Four-year college degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field strongly preferred 
• 1-3 years experience in financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, or related field is required 
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office 365 required 
• Experience with Power BI or comparable data visualization tool strongly preferred 
• Experience with project-based financial planning and analysis in consulting, architecture/engineering, or professional services industry preferred 
• Advanced Microsoft Excel financial modeling skills 
• Proficiency in business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) 
• Experience with enterprise accounting or resource planning (ERP) systems 
• Programming skills for data analysis (Python, R, or SQL) and artificial intelligence (Microsoft Copilot) preferred 

Why join us? 
Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Agency Submissions

No unsolicited agency submissions. Barge Design Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or staffing agencies. Any unsolicited resume becomes the property of Barge Design Solutions, and no fee will be paid for resulting hires. Only agencies with a signed agreement are authorized to submit candidates.