Strategic Senior Financial Analyst

Strategic Senior Financial Analyst

Summary/objective

The Strategic Senior Financial Analyst will act as a strategic business partner to the company's leadership in partnership with the Finance organization.

Core Job Duties

• Financial subject matter expert for a business functional
• Provide insights and analysis through data mining and interpreting complex data sets to assist with sound decision-making.
• Contribute to the multi‐year, annual and quarterly planning and forecasting
• Assist in development and support of weekly, monthly and quarterly management reporting cadence that provides continuous insight into the performance of the business, including trends, variances and risk assessments.
• Reporting and communication of key messages to ensure senior leadership maintains focus on what matters most and has an opportunity to quickly remediate issues.
• Identify and implement process improvements for operational efficiency.
• SFA – Strategic Finance Lead end-to-end financial planning, forecasting, and modeling, including revenue, capacity, and headcount planning aligned to core business drivers.
• Build and maintain sophisticated revenue models incorporating customer acquisition, retention, upsell/downgrade dynamics, and key economic KPIs.
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Strategic Finance, and Accounting to align operating plans, forecasts, and actual results.
• Deliver executive-ready analysis on revenue performance, scenario planning, and risk-adjusted outcomes to support strategic decision-making.
• Develop capacity and workforce models for customer-facing and implementation teams to optimize cost structure and service levels.
• Own P&L analysis, including monthly BvA, variance analysis, and headcount planning.

Job Complexity

A seasoned, experienced professional with a complete understanding of area of specialization. Emerging understanding of broader organizational context and goals. Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is a fully qualified, career ‐ oriented, journey ‐ level position.

Interaction

Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.

Supervision

Normally receives little instruction on day ‐ to ‐ day work, general instructions on new assignments.

Experience

Requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree or equivalent work experience.

Scope

N/A

Discretion

N/A

Minimum Qualifications

• 4 ‐ 7 years related experience, ideally in a SaaS
• Demonstrated ability to use data and provide thoughtful analysis
• High level of comfort interacting with various functional areas and levels of leadership
• Strong analytical skills coupled with an understanding of business dynamics
• Excellent communication, analytic, written, organizational, and problem ‐ solving skills
• Ability to work and execute on tight deadlines
• Power Excel user and strong PowerPoint skills
• Experience or exposure to other reporting tools or systems (Tableau, Microsoft BI, DOMO, Planful, Adaptive Planning, Hyperion Essbase, )
• Self ‐ directed, self ‐ motivated, and demonstrated experience providing ideas and solutions to further business understanding

Physical Demands

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds.

Travel Required

Limited

Work Authorization

Employee must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

FLSA Classification

Salaried, Exempt

Effective

1/1/2024

About isolved

isolved is a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) solutions that combines modern technology with expert services and support. Purpose-built for People Heroes™, isolved gives HR, payroll and benefits leaders the tools and insights to streamline operations and deliver employee experiences that matter. isolved People Cloud™ is a connected HCM platform with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics that brings together HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management and talent management in one experience. Built on a legacy of 40 years in the market, isolved is trusted by more than 200,000 employers and used by 9 million U.S. employees, representing about one in 20 American workers. Visit www.isolvedhcm.com.

EEO Statement

isolved is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. isolved is a progressive and open-minded meritocracy. If you are smart and good at what you do, come as you are.

Disability Accommodation

Visit www.isolvedhcm.com/careers for more information regarding our incredible culture and focus on our employee experience. Visit www.isolvedeebenefits.com for a comprehensive list of our employee total rewards offerings. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions outlined above.