Job Summary
The FP&A Junior Analyst is an early-career finance professional who will help transform financial and operational data into meaningful business insights. The position supports budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial analysis while identifying opportunities to improve how Finance collects, analyzes, and communicates information.
The successful candidate will be analytically curious, comfortable asking questions, attentive to detail, and motivated to understand the business behind the numbers. The analyst will use Excel, Power Query, Power BI, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies to improve productivity and analytical quality while applying appropriate judgment, validation, and data-security practices. This role provides broad exposure to FP&A, operational finance, accounting, business partnership, continuous improvement, and finance transformation initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
- Support forecasting and budgeting processes by gathering and analyzing financial and operational data.
- Perform variance analysis across actual results, forecasts, and budgets, and clearly explain key business drivers.
- Ask thoughtful questions to understand the operational, commercial, and financial drivers of business performance.
- Translate financial analysis into concise conclusions, business implications, and recommended actions for financial and non-financial audiences.
- Maintain and enhance financial models and management reporting tools used to support decision-making.
- Perform recurring analysis of financial reports, including revenue, profitability, and expense results.
- Prepare and maintain KPI reporting that connects operational drivers to financial outcomes.
- Analyze trends, test assumptions, investigate unusual variances or data anomalies, and work with Accounting and Operations to resolve questions.
- Assist with capital expenditure tracking and performance analysis.
- Support bid pricing, labor rate, and burden analyses as needed.
- Collaborate with Accounting and Operations to ensure analyses are based on accurate, timely, and well-understood financial and operational data.
- Challenge existing reports and processes constructively by identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, usefulness, standardization, and decision support.
- Identify repetitive finance activities that can be automated, simplified, or standardized, and help improve reports, models, dashboards, and analytical tools using Excel, Power Query, Power BI, artificial intelligence, or other tools.
- Use artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to support research, analysis, documentation, reporting, and communication activities in accordance