Financial Analyst

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 year-end audit and tax reporting.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, with 1-2 years of relevant professional experience.
• A 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.