What are the responsibilities and job description for the Remote- Senior Financial Analyst position at Apetan Consulting?
Title: Senior Financial Analyst
Location: 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20036
Manage daily accounting operations in QuickBooks Pro; including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger maintenance; coordinating with and overseeing our outsourced accounting team to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and GAAP compliance
Lead month-end close and own payroll administration across geographies, ensuring timely, accurate processing in compliance with local employment, tax, and statutory requirements
Own project accounting across multiple grants and contracts: track budgets, monitor burn rates, and ensure all expenditures are reported in compliance with funder requirements
Partner with the CFO to develop financial reports, dashboards, and analyses; delivering clear, decision-ready insights that inform strategic priorities
Build and maintain the annual budget and rolling forecasts, updating projections monthly to reflect current business conditions and surfacing risks and opportunities to leadership early
Conduct budget-to-actual variance analysis and interpret trends in key performance indicators; translate findings into concise financial narratives and proactively communicate business issues to management
Take full ownership of financial reporting; routine and ad-hoc; ensuring information is accurate, well-organized, and delivered when leadership needs it
Identify and implement improvements to financial systems and processes across Bill.com, QuickBooks, and other tools, driving greater efficiency, accuracy, and internal controls
About you:
You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, and bring 3 years of hands-on experience as an Accountant or Financial Analyst
You are highly proficient in QuickBooks Pro and can take full ownership of day-to-day accounting operations; AP, AR, general ledger, and month-end/year-end close; without needing hand-holding
You have a firm grasp of GAAP and maintain clean, audit-ready books as a matter of professional standard
You have strong experience with project accounting; tracking budgets, burn rates, and financial compliance across multiple contracts simultaneously
You are an Excel power user: comfortable building financial models, variance analyses, and dashboards from scratch, and fluent in pivot tables, complex formulas, and data visualization
You have working knowledge of Bill.com or similar platforms for payment processing and vendor management
Your attention to detail is genuinely exceptional; you catch errors others miss, and you take personal ownership of the accuracy of everything that leaves your desk
You are proactive, well-organized, and calm under deadline pressure; you manage competing priorities without dropping the ball
You communicate clearly and confidently with both finance and non-finance stakeholders; able to translate numbers into plain-language insights that drive better decisions
You have worked in a health tech, digital health, or software environment and understand the pace and ambiguity that comes with a mission-driven, growth-stage company