Financial Analyst (Entry-Level)
Accounting & Finance, IT · Full-time
New York, NY, USA · Remote
USD 60k-80k / 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: Assist with and perform detailed daily and monthly reconciliations (e.g., bank, revenue, COGS), including the rigorous investigation of variances and discrepancies.
- General Accounting Support: Provide comprehensive general accounting support, including preparing journal entries and organizing month-end close documentation.
- Analysis & Modeling: Assist with financial modeling, statistical analysis, and provide support with the budget and forecasting process.
- Reporting: Present data-driven recommendations to the finance team based on variance analysis and special project findings.
- Process Improvement: Support senior analysts in streamlining financial reporting workflows (bonus points for familiarity with tools like Python or Google Apps Script to assist in automating routine reconciliation tasks).
Requirements
- Recent graduate or in the process of completing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance or related field.
- Minimum GPA of 3.6.
- Completion of mid-level finance and accounting courses.
- Proficient with excel, word, and powerpoint, with a strong emphasis on data manipulation.
- Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving and analytical skills—must be comfortable diving deep into the data to find and fix discrepancies.
- Strong organization, time management and ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Team player, strong interpersonal skills, and self-motivated to learn, take on operational tasks with a positive attitude, and tackle new challenges.