Top Financial Analyst Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and expense analysis for North American Operations and Claims. Partners with senior leaders and business stakeholders to explain financial trends, improve expense discipline, develop financial plans, and enhance reporting transparency. Produces complex management and ad hoc reports, identifies process improvements, and supports consistent delivery of expense information across teams.

Partner with Energy, Public Entity, and Inland Marine underwriting teams to deliver financial and operational reporting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and strategic insights. Maintain data stewardship, documentation, controls, and reporting accuracy while investigating variances and improving processes, systems, and efficiencies. Communicate trends and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Leads financial modeling, incentive plan analysis, quota setting, sales commission processes, and executive reporting. Partners with Sales, Finance, and GTM leaders to evaluate compensation strategies, identify performance trends, improve commission systems, strengthen SOX controls, and resolve payout issues. Provides technical leadership for CaptivateIQ and manages cross-functional projects involving financial planning, forecasting, and business recommendations.

Manage market data budgeting, forecasting, invoices, accruals, purchase orders, and month-end close activities. Build executive dashboards and financial reports, validate vendor charges, maintain contract and pricing data, and collaborate with business units and vendors to control costs while maintaining service quality.

Performs financial analysis for defense program controls, including quarterly Estimate at Completion reviews, monthly earned value analysis, Budget Change Requests, Interorganizational Transfers, program financial oversight, planning, and cash collection. Partners with program leadership and cross-functional teams across the contract lifecycle and completes ad hoc financial analyses.

Performs financial analysis, cost and schedule reporting, forecasting, earned value management, and program baseline maintenance for aerospace and defense programs. Prepares EACs, funding analyses, performance reports, and ad hoc analyses while partnering with program management, engineering, contracts, supply chain, and control account managers. Supports financial planning, joint venture reporting, process discipline, and continuous improvement.

Manage FP&A activities including headcount reporting, annual operating planning, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, financial modeling, sales and revenue forecasting, and budget-to-actual reviews. Provide analytical insights and decision support to operational leaders, partner cross-functionally on company initiatives, and communicate business drivers, KPIs, and financial results to stakeholders.

Supports Harvard Kennedy School’s financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis activities. Responsibilities include maintaining financial models, analyzing budgets and variances, reconciling data across financial systems, migrating reporting processes, monitoring accounts and deficits, preparing quantitative reports, and providing financial guidance to departments and centers.

Partners with R&D and engineering leaders on headcount, software, and AI vendor spend. Analyzes financial results, supports month-end close, develops forecasts and KPIs, improves reporting models, and drives annual operating plan processes. Presents insights to senior leadership and collaborates with Accounting and Finance teams in a fast-paced technology environment.

Owns G&A budgeting and forecasting across Finance, Legal, People, and Corporate Affairs. Responsibilities include financial planning, modeling, monthly reporting, variance analysis, business partnering, workforce planning, and spend management. The analyst will monitor headcount, vendor, and operating expenses, improve financial systems and processes, and provide insights that support resource allocation and cost discipline.

Leads financial analysis for defense programs, including EAC and ETC forecasting, cost and variance analysis, revenue recognition, risk assessment, and financial reporting. Partners with program managers and senior leadership to evaluate contract changes, schedule impacts, profitability, and compliance with government financial requirements. Supports ad hoc analyses related to stop-work notifications, contract terminations, and cost impacts.

Manages financial operations for assigned university departments, including reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, transaction oversight, compliance, internal controls, reconciliations, and restricted fund administration. Advises department leaders on financial impacts, prepares budgets and reports, investigates discrepancies, processes journal entries and budget adjustments, and coordinates with central finance functions. Provides training and customized reporting to support planning and decision-making.

Supports financial performance and cost control for aerospace and defense programs. Maintains financial data, Earned Value Management, program logs, forecasts, Estimates-at-Completion, and Latest Revised Estimates. Analyzes actual costs, identifies variances and issues, and provides financial guidance to program operations, engineering, supply chain, and operations teams. The role requires independent work, deadline management, analytical skills, and effective communication.

Supports monthly financial statement close, financial data reporting, account maintenance, balance sheet and income statement reconciliations, budgeting, and external audit coordination. Acts as a finance resource, performs special projects, and ensures financial records are accurate and confidential.

Leads financial and business analysis projects, including forecasting, trend analysis, variance analysis, reporting, and financial research. Develops spreadsheets and databases, prepares presentations for management, documents findings, recommends improvements, and coordinates cross-functional projects through completion. Supports budgeting, financial reporting, and special studies while advising leadership on expected outcomes and financial decisions.

Serves as the primary finance partner to GTM and Marketing leadership. Leads headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, expense management, and financial modeling. Analyzes performance against plan, provides strategic recommendations, supports annual planning and monthly close, and improves reporting processes. Partners with Corporate FP&A, Sales Finance, HR, and business leaders on resource allocation, cost optimization, and operational alignment.

Leads FP&A activities for G&A functions, including annual planning, forecasting, financial reviews, long-range planning, financial modeling, investment analysis, and executive reporting. Partners with business leaders to evaluate resource allocation, risks, opportunities, and strategic initiatives. Drives process improvement through automation, AI-enabled tools, and Power BI while delivering actionable insights and supporting data-driven decisions.

Own Seso’s revenue model, forecasting, bookings and revenue reporting. Reconcile ERP, QuickBooks Online and billing data, maintain Aleph dashboards, explain budget variances, and present financial drivers to leadership. Automate monthly reporting and model updates using AI, connected data, formulas and scripts. Collaborate across Finance, Revenue Operations, billing and FP&A platform partners to improve accuracy and reduce manual work.

Own and improve Excel financial models, revenue reporting, KPIs, and Power BI dashboards. Gather and validate data from business systems, support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, and analyze actual results against plan. Present revenue performance insights to finance leadership and executives, partner cross-functionally on ad hoc analysis, improve reporting processes, and contribute to automation and AI initiatives.

Supports DOJ financial operations through transaction review, payment validation, data quality analysis, suspended disbursement reviews, trend monitoring, internal control assessments, dashboards, and corrective-action tracking. Provides analytical insights and recommendations to leadership while ensuring compliance with federal financial requirements and improving debt-related processing and reporting.

Supports sponsored research finance operations by interpreting agreement terms, scheduling invoices and financial deliverables in GMAS, preparing sponsor invoices and reports, collecting outstanding receivables, analyzing financial data, and assisting with reconciliations, process documentation, training, and special projects.

Build and maintain FP&A models, forecasts, budgets, cash flows, KPI dashboards, and variance analyses for 4–8 e-commerce and CPG clients. The role supports financial planning, reporting, due diligence, strategic initiatives, and client decision-making while ensuring alignment between operational analysis and accounting records. Candidates need e-commerce or CPG experience, strong financial modeling and cash forecasting skills, accounting knowledge, advanced spreadsheet capabilities, and the ability to communicate insights to senior management.

Supports corporate finance leaders with G&A budgeting, forecasting, reporting, variance analysis, expense modeling, and headcount planning. Partners with Accounting, HR, and other functions to validate financial data, analyze vendor and initiative spending, and explain operational drivers. The role also improves finance processes through AI, automation, analytics, and reporting tools while managing recurring deadlines and ad hoc analyses.

Supports financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Responsibilities include managing operating and capital budgets, quarterly close and monthly reporting, journal entries, cost transfers, expense coding, reconciliations, lease payments, and financial-system data management. The role partners with building managers and department leadership to ensure policy compliance and accurate budget oversight, including major capital projects and sustainability initiatives.

Supports budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, and financial analysis. Administers and configures the Prophix FP&A platform, including models, workflows, security, reports, dashboards, and integrations. Partners with Finance, Accounting, IT, and business leaders to improve planning systems, validate data, troubleshoot issues, manage testing and governance, document processes, train users, and deliver financial insights and ad hoc analysis.