Financial Analyst
Accounting & Finance, IT · Full-time
New York, NY, USA · Remote
USD 70k-90k / year
Responsibilities
- Data Maintenance & Record Keeping: Maintain, scrub, and organize large sets of financial records, ensuring absolute data integrity across ledgers and reporting systems.
- Reconciliations & Variance Investigation: Perform detailed weekly and monthly reconciliations (e.g., bank, revenue, crypto balance), including the rigorous investigation of variances and discrepancies.
- Pre/Post-close Preparation & Support: Assist the accounting team by organizing, reviewing, and cleaning up pre-close items, ensuring financial data is accurately prepared for the month-end close process.
- Analysis & Modeling: Assist with financial modeling, perform profitability analysis, and provide support in building and maintaining budget models and forecasting processes.
- Process Improvement & Automation: Streamline financial reporting workflows and routine reconciliation tasks by leveraging automation tools and scripts (e.g., Python, SQL, Google Apps Script, or advanced Excel macros).
- Proactive Task Management: Actively identify process gaps, discrepancies, or operational inefficiencies, and independently initiate and complete tasks to resolve them.
- Ad Hoc Tasks: Execute ad hoc tasks from senior management, investors and other external sources.
- Audit & Tax Support: Provide assistance to YE audit and tax reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, with 1-2 years of relevant professional experience.
- Solid foundational understanding of accounting principles (e.g., GAAP, double-entry bookkeeping, accruals).
- Minimum GPA of 3.6.
- Proficient with Excel with a strong emphasis on data manipulation and demonstrated hands-on experience in financial process automation.
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills—must be comfortable diving deep into the data to find and fix discrepancies.
- Self-motivated and proactive: proven ability to independently identify tasks, take ownership, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision.
- Strong organization, time management, and ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Team player with a positive attitude, ready to tackle new operational challenges.