Job Description

Reporting to our Vice President of Finance and Accounting, who is a direct report of the CEO, you will provide high-quality decision support that drives our business performance. This is a wonderful opportunity for a results-oriented self-starter, who is confident in defending his/her critical thinking, to engage with and influence top management teams, while receiving strong hands-on mentorship from our Vice President of Finance and Accounting. You will have the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule from your home office in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and on-site at our Administrative Office (HQ) in Irving (Las Colinas), TX.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and development of department budgets, forecasts, cash planning and other related reporting activities throughout the year
• Analyze, evaluate, and develop store-level forecasting models and identify potential areas of opportunities and risks
• Develop data driven cost savings or growth strategies and present those strategies to top executives
• Identify and report upon key drivers and trends of financial performance

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field
• 8 years of finance experience
• Advanced Excel skills (VBA, Pivots, Nested functions)
• Advanced SQL skills (Stored Procedures, Temp Tables, Aggregate Functions)
• Experience with Power BI or other visualization tools
• Demonstrated understanding on how to model the relationships between key metrics and financial statement outputs
• A passion for problem-solving and intellectual curiosity
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to extract and analyze raw data, draw conclusions, and make actionable recommendations
• Experience leading the budgeting and forecasting cycles for a financial services organization
• Ability to effectively manage priorities and projects
• Strong attention to detail
• Local (Dallas/Fort Worth area) candidates only – no relocation
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and not require sponsorship in the future

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, accounting, or related field
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Compensation

• Starting annual salary up to $175,000

Workplace

• Flexibility of a hybrid work schedule, working remotely from your home office in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and on-site at our Administrative Office (HQ) in Irving (Las Colinas), TX
• Address: 2100 W Walnut Hill Ln, Suite 300, Irving, TX 75038

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• Voluntary life/ AD&D
• Short-term & long-term disability
• 401K with company match
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid maternity, paternity, bereavement, extended medical leave, and jury duty
• Corporate discount program on “personal cell phone accounts” with select providers
• Corporate discount program on Microsoft 365 “Home Use Program”
• Casual dress code
• On-site fitness center
• On-site “grab-n-go” deli

About Cottonwood

Founded in 1996, Cottonwood Financial is one of the largest privately held retail consumer finance companies in the United States. With our customer-centric focus, we offer an innovative mix of financial products and services through our FinTech (online/digital) lending portal, Cashstore.com, as well as through our 230 brick-and-mortar retail locations in multiple states, under our Cash Store brand.We are positioned to grow, our locations are 100% company-owned (no franchises), and we have been named multiple times to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, as well as to the Dallas 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in North Texas. Cottonwood Financial is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.