The Senior Financial Analyst will develop financial models, analyze financial data, manage corporate reporting, and assist in forecasting and performance metrics.
Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
Summary
Smarsh is seeking a talented and driven Senior Financial Analyst to join the Corporate FP&A function operating out of our Atlanta, Georgia COE. This role will be reporting to the Director of FP&A and partnering cross-functionally with other senior leaders at Smarsh. This is a person who can drive value, collaborate with others, and improve capacity of the team. A key participant in the creation of the company’s operating forecasts in addition to providing management with analytical tools and information to measure performance of Smarsh. This role will help contribute to Smarsh’s long-range plan, forecasting balance sheet and cashflow activities.
How will you contribute?
- Develop complex financial models and supporting analysis on strategic initiatives and performance scenarios
- Analyze balance sheet and cashflow activity and forecast changes in account balances
- Manage corporate reporting to ownership groups and establish partnerships with key stakeholders
- Assist in bottoms up forecasts and planning for the business using key performance indicators and drivers
- Provide analysis on complex financial information to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes
- Complete account based budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual variance analysis with commentary
- Work with large data sets to translate results into meaningful metrics and insights
- Present complex information and findings in an executive summary format to leaders
- Analyze and advise on workforce planning and vendor management expenses in partnership with G&A department leaders
- Other duties as assigned
What will you bring?
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
- 5+ years of financial analysis experience
- Advanced Excel skills and experience such as: nested functions, sumifs, vlookup, pivot table creation and development, arrays, etc.
- Advanced understanding of GAAP and impact on financial forecasts
- Excellent critical thinking, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
- Experience with reporting financial data to others both verbally and written
- Experience with management and analysis of large datasets
- Experience with complex financial models using either Excel, ERPs, Power BI, Tableau or Planning Tools
- Experience with financial due diligence reporting
- Experience with a SaaS business preferred
- Experience with Salesforce, Workday Adaptive Planning, NetSuite or similar platforms preferred
About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.
Top Skills
Erps
Excel
NetSuite
Power BI
Salesforce
Tableau
Workday Adaptive Planning
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