The Finance Analyst role focuses on providing a variety of FP&A services to clients across Propeller’s portfolio of early stage E-commerce companies. Over the past few years this has included companies such as Away, Casper, Hubble and Hims.
In collaboration with Propeller CFOs and Finance Directors , you will work with a variety of high-growth clients (ranging from Seed to Series C stage) to analyze their business, build detailed financial operating models, improve their forecasting, refine their financial reporting and use data to optimize strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain detailed financial models for a variety of e-commerce and software businesses, including P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasts
- Develop business performance reporting and custom financial & operating KPI dashboards; Report on KPIs on a monthly basis. These will include revenue, COGS, inventory, customer analytics etc.
- Work hand-in-hand with accounting team to review and cross-check monthly client financial performance
- Perform monthly variance analyses focused on actuals vs. budget, working with client to understand reason for variances and update forecast accordingly
- Proactively explore and help implement ways to improve accuracy and efficiency of current modeling processes
- Work with clients and Propeller finance leaders to find analytical and modeling projects outside of the normal budgeting and review process to add additional value
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years in finance-focused roles such as FP&A role in-house at high-growth company, management consulting, or investment banking
- Great team player with strong work ethic
- Extremely strong financial modeling and Excel skills
- Comfort with data and ambiguity, and an ability to delve into details and adapt to shifting priorities
- Good communication skills internally and with clients
- Ability to manage multiple client workstreams in an organized manner and respond to ad-hoc requests to support business decisions in timely and efficient manner