Finance and Operations Analyst
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Really Great ReadingEducation technology
Remote: USAFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- Five or more years of relevant experience
- Required Skills
- Data AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelFinancial analysisProcess improvement
Requirements
- Five or more years of relevant experience in business analysis, operations analysis, financial planning and analysis, accounting, or related roles.
- Experience analyzing business or operational questions across functions and connecting findings to financial or resource decisions.
- A strong foundation in financial analysis, including interpreting results and supporting planning, forecasting, or modeling.
- Experience investigating root causes, evaluating alternatives, and recommending practical improvements.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, and complex formulas.
- Experience with ERP systems or other business platforms and combining data from multiple sources.
- Experience creating reports, tracking performance measures, or developing dashboards.
- Ability to manage projects independently, establish an approach, and follow through without step-by-step direction.
- Comfort working with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving processes.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to explain findings clearly to financial and nonfinancial audiences.
- Preferred: experience with NetSuite, Ramp, Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools.
- Preferred: experience in education, educational technology, or a SaaS business.
Responsibilities
- Partner with teams to define business questions, identify relevant data, and develop actionable insights.
- Analyze workload, service demand, staffing capacity, costs, and process performance to support resource planning.
- Investigate operational challenges and evaluate staffing, process, system, or investment options.
- Prepare financial reports and budget-to-actual variance analyses, explaining key drivers and business implications.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, and financial model updates.
- Build and maintain scenario models to help leaders evaluate costs, tradeoffs, and potential investments.
- Develop reports and dashboards, monitor key performance indicators, and validate and reconcile data from multiple sources.
- Identify workflow and reporting improvements, support implementation, and assess results.
- Support administration of financial and operational tools, including Ramp, and coordinate user access changes.
- Manage analytical and process improvement projects from problem definition through recommendations and implementation support.
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