Senior Financial Analyst - Mission Operations Finance

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own budgeting, forecasting, and monthly financial reviews for assigned operational teams, covering headcount, operating expenses, and capital requirements
• Partner with operational leaders to understand business activity, evaluate assumptions, and recommend actions on staffing, spending, and resources
• Build financial models that link business demand to workforce, equipment, and material requirements, and evaluate resource options and financial tradeoffs within demand and capacity planning
• Maintain headcount and labor forecasts that reflect staffing plans, hiring timing, and workforce changes
• Analyze results against plan, explain spending and cost allocation across business activities, and identify risks and opportunities
• Track and forecast operational performance, including workforce and asset utilization, overtime, and capacity, and analyze the costs of delivering services
• Prepare clear management reporting and ad hoc analyses that explain financial outcomes and support business decisions
• Coordinate planning assumptions with finance partners across products and programs, and work with Accounting to reconcile results and resolve cost allocation issues

Job requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, operational finance, or a related analytical role, with demonstrated ownership of operating forecasts and business analysis
• Advanced Excel skills and strong financial modeling ability, including building driver-based forecasts, scenario analyses, and models that others can understand and maintain
• Strong understanding of financial statements, expense drivers, cost allocation, and the relationship between operating activity and financial results
• Experience owning budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting processes
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility with operational leaders, present financial results and recommendations to senior stakeholders, and communicate assumptions and tradeoffs clearly
• Curiosity and initiative to learn how the business works, investigate underlying drivers, and turn analysis into practical recommendations
• Ability to prioritize competing requests, work through incomplete data, and follow through on commitments in a rapidly changing environment
• High standards for accuracy and accountability, with the judgment to validate assumptions, acknowledge uncertainty, and seek input when needed