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Position: Finance Data and Reporting Analyst
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid - 1 day in office)
The Role
Northwest Center is seeking a Finance Data and Reporting Analyst to partner closely with Accounting leadership to improve financial reporting, analysis, and system effectiveness. The role focuses on understanding financial data, accounting workflows, and business operations to deliver accurate reporting and actionable insights.
You will support and optimize accounting and finance-related systems, develop financial models and dashboards, and assist with system enhancements and implementations that directly impact financial reporting, forecasting, and decision-making. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working in the intersection of accounting, financial data, and business operations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance, effective the month after 30 days of employment
- 17 Accrued Paid Time Off Days Annually
- 7 Paid Holidays 1 Day of Floating Holiday; 3 Floating Holiday days annually after one year
- Parental Leave & Paid Compassion Leave
- Retirement 401(K) with a company match
- Employment Assistance Program (EAP) via Spring Health
- Mental Wellness Program including six free therapy sessions per year
- Company-Provided Orca Pass with Unlimited Use OR Transportation Benefit of $50 per month
- Opportunity for career development with our NWC Mentorship Match program
- Wellness Reimbursement Program - $25/month
- Student Loan Contribution Program - $50/month
- Pet Insurance Discount Program
What You'll Do
- Aggregating financial and operational data from core source systems, cleaning it, and preparing it for reporting and analysis.
- Developing and maintaining models/dashboards for forecasting revenue, expenses, cash flow and business scorecards to support reporting and analysis of business performance.
- Measuring critical financial metrics at the company organization-wide level as well as the department-level to help leadership understand organizational performance.
- Using aggregated data and business understanding, develop reports and analysis that support leadership decision making.
- Preparing reporting and data for ad hoc analysis requests from senior leadership or executives
- Understanding organizational systems and help improve how data from different systems is organized and reported.
- Assisting in the design, testing and implementation of new systems and helping ensure reporting continues to function correctly.
- Becoming a superuser for designated systems, including, but not limited to Accounting, Analytics, and Reporting.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or related field
- 5 years of accounting experience with a strong understanding of financial statements and accounting principles
- Experience working with financial systems, reporting tools, and data analysis (e.g., Power BI)
- Experience analyzing large datasets and translating findings into actionable insights
- Experience with software implementations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- High attention to detail and data accuracy
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
- Strong communication skills, explaining data clearly
About Northwest Center
Northwest Center is an ambitious, mission-driven social enterprise organization advancing opportunities for people with disabilities through inclusive employment. Since 1965, we have built a portfolio of successful businesses, including our Laundry division, to fuel our mission and drive societal change.
We are focused on our collective North: a world where all children have equitable access to education and people with disabilities experience employment parity. Through our social enterprises, we deliver high-quality services while creating workplaces where people of all abilities can learn and work together.
Northwest Center is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at jobs@nwcenter.org.
At Northwest Center, we do not just accept diversity and inclusion — we celebrate it, support it, live it, and flourish in it to benefit our employees, the community, and our clientele. We believe that our strength lies within our diversity and the forward motion towards a day when people of all abilities can learn and work together.
We believe that curiosity and critical thinking are essential to dialogue and improving decision-making, planning, resource allocation, and how we treat others. Our goal is to create and implement more equitable practices, policies, and culture. To be equitable means to value and respect individuals from all cultural backgrounds, genders, races, identities, and abilities. Northwest Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veterans’ status
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