Senior Financial Analyst
SPINS, a Chicago-based SaaS company, is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team.
By leveraging SPINS’ industry-leading proprietary data and analytics, our technology enables deeper, more engaged relationships between Retailers, Brands and Consumers through our platform, web, and mobile products.
WHO ARE WE?
- We eat collaboration and curiosity for breakfast
- We communicate quickly and succinctly
- We believe in roles instead of jobs
- We take initiative independently and hurdle challenges together
- We discuss, debate, decide and do with the same rapidity as we iterate our platform
- We are a talent ecosystem whose health is predicated on each individual’s ability to support every other individual’s success.
WHO ARE YOU?
- Someone energetic, empathic and earnest
- Someone who wakes each morning thinking of which opportunity they will grab today
- Someone that refuses to give up when the path isn’t paved
- Someone that consistently delivers quality work on schedule
- Someone who would rather build the right tool to do the job than wait until they’re handed one
- A creative thinker as adept at looking at the Big Picture as they are at the details.
WHAT DO WE NEED?
SPINS is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst that is as comfortable leading discussions as they are working on a spreadsheet. We're looking for an individual who will not only produce the analysis, but will also pursue the 'why' and 'what next' needed to make an impact on SPINS' performance. An effective and collaborative communicator who possesses an entrepreneurial and curious spirit, the Senior Financial Analyst will be an individual contributor whose analysis and problem solving will drive reporting and development of new functionalities to serve our developing business.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
The Senior Financial Analyst will be integral to the definition, building and maintenance of historical financial reporting as well as budgeting and forecasting models. You will dig in and understand the key metrics and business drivers critical to our growing business and help us build the tools needed to effectively track and forecast those metrics. Interacting and partnering with key leaders and internal stakeholders, your work will be critical to day-to-day decision making across the organization and will influence improvements of existing processes. You'll proactively seek and provide recommendations for implementing changes and improvements, while analyzing and reporting on SPINS' performance and business initiatives.
The Senior Financial Analyst reports to our Chief Financial Officer and is located in the River North neighborhood of Chicago.
YOU'LL PROBABLY HAVE...
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field
- 3 - 5 years of financial analyst experience
- Previous experience implementing financial systems or building out financial reporting
- Rockstar level Excel skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills to interact with all levels of our organization
- Excellent analytical ability
- Ability to manage competing priorities, prioritize and multitask
- Strong organizational skills and an orientation to detail
- Entrepreneurial and go-getter spirit
- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Qlik, PowerBI or Tableau
- Experience with Anaplan is not required, but very nice to have