Financial Analyst – FP&A
About The Position
Watchtower Security is seeking a Financial Analyst to own day-to-day FP&A reporting, forecasting, and analysis. The role works closely with the Accounting team and receives ongoing direction, review, and support from the CFO. The analyst will help establish processes, reporting tools, and financial models for a growing business, connecting historical financial results with operational performance and forward-looking plans to provide leadership with clear insights and actionable recommendations. As the analyst develops knowledge of the business, the role will take on increasing responsibility for recurring reporting, forecast preparation, and budget coordination.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- Two to four years of progressive experience in financial analysis, corporate finance, or FP&A, including hands-on experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and management reporting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, pivot tables, lookup functions, and scenario analysis.
- Working knowledge of financial statements and the relationship between revenue, expenses, profitability, and cash flow.
- Ability to turn high-level direction into organized work plans, manage competing priorities, and complete projects independently while seeking guidance when needed.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to validate data, investigate discrepancies, and document assumptions.
- Ability to explain financial results clearly and provide actionable recommendations to non-financial department leaders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience analyzing subscription-based, recurring revenue, or managed service business models.
- Experience evaluating customer profitability, service delivery costs, or operational performance.
- Experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Experience supporting financial software implementations, ERP systems, reporting platforms, or financial consolidation tools.
Responsibilities
- Develop, prepare, and maintain weekly and monthly reporting packages tracking financial and operational performance.
- Analyze recurring revenue growth, customer retention, revenue churn, customer or property-level profitability, and gross margins.
- Evaluate customer acquisition costs, customer lifetime value, and payback periods where reliable data is available.
- Partner with the CFO and department leaders to coordinate the annual budgeting process.
- Build and maintain rolling forecasts, document assumptions, and evaluate scenarios to support business planning.
- Prepare monthly budget-to-actual analyses and executive reporting packages.
- Explain key performance drivers, identify emerging trends, and highlight risks and opportunities.
- Partner with department leaders on prioritized financial analyses and decision support.
- Develop models to evaluate pricing, equipment and installation costs, service delivery expenses, ongoing support costs, and operational efficiency.
- Support the CFO with cash flow forecasting and analysis of equipment purchases, capital investments, and other business initiatives.
- Partner with Accounting and operational leaders to validate reporting inputs, reconcile financial and operational data, and establish consistent KPI definitions, assumptions, and reporting procedures.
- Identify opportunities to streamline data collection, reduce manual reporting tasks, and improve reporting accuracy and efficiency.
- Implement process improvements in collaboration with the CFO and relevant teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
