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The Senior FP&A Analyst will analyze financial metrics, create reports and budgets, develop financial models, and support strategic decisions.
Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry.
Our Business department is comprised of several key teams who work to ensure that Belvedere is operating at the highest level. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success. Our Business Teams build and manage processes that strive to improve all facets of the company. Whether it’s human or financial capital, our goal is to drive productivity while enhancing Team Belvedere’s experience.
Belvedere is looking for someone to work together with the Head of FP&A and the CFO to develop insightful analysis and reporting that will help drive and inform the management team’s long-term strategic decisions and the direction the firm. We need a team player to help support our back office in providing world class analysis services to our business.
This individual will use financial metrics and other data to provide insight into the performance of our trading desks, and work closely with our finance and accounting teams to produce reports and dashboards, generate budgets and forecasts, and monitor KPIs to help better understand the dynamics of our business. We are looking for someone who excels at synthesizing large amounts of data to yield actionable results.
What you'll do
- Analyze the trends of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), especially relating to financial metrics, and identify the cause of any unexpected variances
- Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made
- Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecast
- Utilize business intelligence tooling to create dashboards and reports
- Develop financial models and analyze them to support strategic initiatives
- Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights
- Ad-hoc business performance reporting
- Support finance and operations teams with data-driven analysis
What you'll need
- An entrepreneurial mindset, ambition, and outstanding organizational skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
- 2-4 years of relevant experience in FP&A or similar analytical role
- Experience building dashboards in Power BI or another Business Intelligence Platform (Tableau, etc.)
- Experience with SQL, Big Query or other Cloud data technologies, or similar (bonus points for experience with programming languages such as Python or R or an ETL too such as Alteryx)
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Ability to mine large sets of data from multiple data sources to identify trends/variances and to structure sophisticated reports and financial models for decision support
- Retrieve, consolidate, and analyze data from ERP System
- Professional accounting/finance designation (CFA, CMA, CPA, etc.) a plus
- Familiarity with corporate performance management systems (Adaptive, Anaplan, Vena, etc.) a plus
- Broker-Dealer experience a plus
- Dedication to maintaining strict confidentiality with respect to highly sensitive information
Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.
Core Values
The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.
Our Stance
Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.
Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.
Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].
Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours
Amount of Travel Required: None
Sponsorship: Not available for this position
Top Skills
Alteryx
Big Query
Excel
Power BI
Python
R
SQL
Tableau
Belvedere Trading Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
We are located in the Chicago Loop right next to Ogilvie and Union Train Station for easy access to all of Chicago's favorite neighborhoods. Our office is right on the Chicago River with great lunch places to eat and dining alfresco in the summer.
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