**We currently offer remote work to qualified applicants that live in the state of Utah.**
Established in 2000, Conservice is the nation’s foremost utility management company, serving housing communities, commercial buildings, and other property management firms. Our Utility Experts manage our services to help our clients conserve natural resources and save money.
Overview
The Sr. Financial Analyst will report to the Vice President of FP&A and provide financial, strategic, and business analysis support for multiple lines of business at Conservice. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with excellent quantitative analytic skills and experience, who enjoys working with big data, is detail-oriented, personable, collaborative, and inquisitive. The role requires effective partnering with business leaders, strong communication and executive presence skills, transforming large quantities of data into complex financial models, balancing multiple projects and deadlines, and helping to drive business decisions and measuring results.
Preference is for candidate in the Logan, Utah or Salt Lake metro area. If chosen for an interview, please be prepared to share a description of the most interesting data analysis you’ve performed and its impact on the business.
Responsibilities
- Drive business impact through robust financial analytics and business projects to grow revenue and profit
- Become a trusted partner to executive leaders in analyzing business opportunities, risks, and trends and driving projects and decisions to improve the business
- Assess actual results and variance to forecast to create performance scorecards to align and focus the organization
- Create consistent, accurate, and robust financial and operational forecasting models including operating metrics and key performance indicators that drive accountability of company goals
- Lead the annual business plan and budget process, long-range strategic planning, monthly analysis and reporting performance; including key insights into operational and financial results
- Conduct innovative business analytics through data modeling and business intelligence (Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Excel)
- Work closely with IT to create and improve reporting and database management
- Create self-service tools and dashboards for executive leaders and business partners that will solve for current and future requirements
- Take ownership of assigned projects from conception to implementation and present results to senior leaders and key business partners
- Identify relevant trends from historical performance, competitor benchmarking, and macro-economic factors to enhance forecasting accuracy, spot early warning signs, and key opportunities
- Lead efforts to increase business productivity by managing cost drivers and growth levers
- Contribute to overall department goals and objectives
Qualifications
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, driven and results-oriented, comfortable dealing with ambiguity and overcoming obstacles
- Self-starter with excellent interpersonal skills, ability to multi-task and work independently as well as with a team, and able to manage competing priorities while meeting deadlines and generating output with a very high degree of quality
- Demonstrated ability to summarize and present complex financial data in an organized, concise manner as well as creating forecasting and financial models
- Excellent communication skills, comfortable interacting with senior management
- Focus on quality management, problem solving, and process improvement with a passion to learn and grow
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial analysis, business analysis, consulting, business strategic planning, or equivalent experience – preferably in a recurring revenue business
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance / Accounting / Economics / Data Science / Business Intelligence / Computer Science or related quantitative field required; strong preference for MBA or CPA degree
- A power Excel user, with proficiency in business intelligence software (Power BI, Power Query, Tableau, etc), MS Office and financial software applications
- Experience with NetSuite Planning and Budgeting or Hyperion Essbase a plus
- In-depth knowledge and experience with data query/data management tools and performing analysis on large datasets using querying languages and tools
