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Senior Financial Analyst | Chicago, IL
A high-growth, acquisitive company in the energy sector is looking to add a Senior Financial Analyst to its corporate finance team. This is a broad FP&A opportunity with exposure to senior leadership, operations, investors, and M&A.
The Senior Financial Analyst will play a key role in monthly reporting, budgeting and forecasting, KPI analysis, cash forecasting, financial modeling, and business intelligence.
Responsibilities:
- Lead monthly financial analysis, including budget and prior-period variance and trend analysis
- Partner with Operations to monitor KPIs and identify opportunities to improve financial performance
- Support monthly and quarterly board and investor reporting
- Coordinate weekly cash forecasting in partnership with Treasury
- Lead key pieces of the annual budgeting process across a multi-location organization
- Maintain and enhance forecasting models and financial dashboards
- Support acquisition analysis, including scenario modeling, DCF/IRR calculations, purchase price analysis, and deal funding structures
- Build and optimize dashboards using Power BI or similar BI platforms
- Assist with special projects and occasional travel to operating locations and acquisition targets
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with 3–5 years of Finance or Accounting experience
- Strong Excel skills with an interest in continuing to develop advanced capabilities
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or another enterprise BI platform
- Experience building dashboards, complex measures, and transforming data for analysis
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Ability to communicate effectively and partner across different areas of the business
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Exposure to Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar cloud data platforms is a plus
This is a great opportunity for someone looking for broad corporate finance exposure with a mix of FP&A, operational finance, M&A analysis, and executive-level reporting!
Salary : $100,000 - $115,000