Senior Financial Analyst

About the Company

About Insticator

Insticator improves engagement and increases ad revenue for publishers by providing interactive content while simultaneously increasing site views and driving purchase intent for brands. 
 
Over 350 million consumers are reached monthly across Insticator’s vast network of elite publishing partners, including: Warner Bros., Ancestry.com, Tribune Media, Rodale, Evolve Media, Crave Media, The Atlantic, Toronto Sun, and more.
 
Insticator empowers more than 6,000 content creators monthly, monetizing content opportunities for publishers and brands. We are a Inc 5,000 company and a Red Herring Global 100 recipient.

The Insticator Values

We recruit, promote, and reward based off of our three core values:

  • Sleeves Up - At Insticator we provide the autonomy and creativity needed to own your role, iterate where needed and drive impact on a massive scale.
  • 100% Viewability- Insticator is driven by open feedback at all levels of the company. This allows us to fail fast, create in real time and create an open company culture.
  • Be Defiantly Great - We’re defiant, that’s in our lifeblood, we accomplish what other people think are impossible. Challenging the status quo is our lifeblood.





About the Role

Job title
Senior Financial Planning and Analysis 

Job Overview

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will serve as a partner to all business leaders. The Senior Financial Analyst is essential to Insticator’s strategic planning, budgeting, business analytics and reporting outcomes processes. This role requires hyper-intellectual curiosity, expertise with reporting tools, knowledge of business planning and processes, familiarity with financial statements and metrics measurement, effective presentation skills and the ability to work with a high degree of uncertainty.

Challenges and Opportunities for the position

Senior Financial Analyst faces challenges in utilizing both quantitative and qualitative analysis of all operational aspects of a company in order to evaluate the company’s progress toward achieving its goals and to map out future goals and plans. The analyst shall consider economic and business trends, review past company performance, and attempt to anticipate obstacles and potential problems, all with an eye toward forecasting a company’s future financial results. In addition to the technical challenges involved in aggregating and interpreting this complex data, one of the other challenges they face is the fast pace of the industry.
 
Responsibilities and Duties.

  • Evaluating whether the company’s assets and investments are the best use of the company’s excess working capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways, the company might utilize its cash flow.
  • Gauging the company’s overall financial health
  • Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data to ensure accuracy of financial reporting
  • Develop, update, and refine management reports and tools to support the business and contribute to profitable growth
  • Assist in completion of forecasts/business plans and provide required information to corporate departments and business unit partners
  • Examining and evaluating the cost-efficiency of each department of the company, in light of what percentage of the company’s financial resources each department consumes
  • Working with individual departments to prepare budgets and consolidate them into one overall corporate budget
  • Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making
  • Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the company’s future operations
  • Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward
  • Considering opportunities for the company to expand or grow. Mapping out growth plans, including capital expenditures and investments. Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.


Qualifications.

Professional competencies

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance; MBA preferred.
  • 5+ years experience in the field of Accounting, or Finance
  • Strong leadership skills required. Experience in multi-unit IT/advertising concepts preferred.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint. Spreadsheet skill set to include advanced functions such as graphics/charts and pivot tables.
  • Highest standards of accuracy and precision; highly organized.
  • Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret documents. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires intermediate analytical and quantitative skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity

Cultural competencies

  • Creative confidence
  • Collaborative mindset and great teamwork skills
  • Skilled at receiving feedback, as well as providing it
  • Entrepreneurial & adaptable; great learning skills
  • Transparent & communicative, patient
  • Curious, research-minded, data-informed

Benefits.

Full time employment benefits

We offer a diverse package and the chance to grow financially with the company, including:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Annual Performance Bonus
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Free lunch on Fridays and office snacks

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