Financial Analyst

Czarnowski • Denver, CO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Financial Analyst supports the Denver Account Services Group with planning, forecasting, and management reporting. Reporting to the Director of FP&A, this hands-on role prepares monthly variance analysis, maintains budget and forecast models, analyzes project profitability, and turns operating results into actionable insights for leadership. The analyst works across a project-based business with studio, operations, sales, and production teams to connect project economics and utilization to consolidated financial results.

Responsibilities include supporting the annual consolidated budget process; updating monthly and quarterly P&L and cash flow forecasts; maintaining budget, forecast, and headcount models; and conducting scenario and sensitivity analysis. The role prepares monthly reporting packages, KPI dashboards, variance analysis, and executive reporting materials; analyzes project margins, cost trends, labor utilization, cash flow, and working capital; and provides decision support and finance partnership to business leaders. The analyst also works with Accounting during month-end close and contributes to reporting automation, data integrity, and process documentation.

The position is based in Denver, Colorado, on a hybrid schedule of three days per week on-site and the balance remote. It involves regular video collaboration with colleagues in other offices and approximately 5% occasional travel to other offices, production facilities, or client events.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Two to four years of FP&A, corporate finance, or accounting experience.
• Experience building and maintaining financial models covering the P&L and cash flow.
• Advanced Excel skills, including modeling, large data sets, pivot tables, lookup and index functions, and disciplined model structure.
• Ability to present findings clearly to non-financial audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain what numbers mean, not just what they are.
• High attention to detail and sound judgment about where precision matters.
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables against firm deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience with ERP/accounting systems, planning/EPM systems, business intelligence tools, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, Microsoft 365, and project/job costing or WIP reporting tools is expected; specific platform experience is a plus.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a project-based or services business, such as agency, marketing services, construction, engineering, manufacturing-to-order, or professional services, where project accounting and WIP are relevant.
• Exposure to private-equity-owned or sponsor-backed reporting.
• Experience with a dedicated FP&A or EPM platform.
• Comfort with SQL, Power Query, Python, or similar tools for working with data.
• Experience with ERP/accounting platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Sage Intacct; planning/EPM platforms such as Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, Vena, Oracle EPM, or OneStream; and BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.

Responsibilities

• Support the consolidated annual budget process by preparing templates, collecting and reviewing business-unit and functional submissions, and consolidating results for FP&A leadership review.
• Update monthly and quarterly P&L and cash flow forecasts and prepare bridges from prior forecasts and budget.
• Maintain budget, forecast, and headcount models with clear assumptions, clean structure, and version control.
• Run sensitivities on pipeline shifts, show-cycle timing, cost changes, and pricing decisions.
• Prepare monthly actual-to-budget and actual-to-forecast variance analysis, KPI dashboards, and draft commentary on key drivers.
• Build schedules, charts, and slides for executive, board, and ownership reviews.
• Analyze project margins, direct and indirect cost trends, and labor utilization, and flag margin leakage early.
• Support cash forecasting and track working capital drivers, including project billings, deposits, unbilled WIP, and receivables.
• Serve as a day-to-day finance contact for studio, operations, and production leaders, explaining financial information in plain language.
• Provide well-structured ad hoc analysis for leadership questions, with assumptions clearly stated.
• Work with Accounting through month-end close to review results, accruals, and consistency with the general ledger.
• Improve data pulls between ERP, planning, and reporting tools to reduce manual reporting work.
• Help maintain consistent and reconcilable cost center, project, and reporting hierarchies.
• Document models, processes, and recurring deliverables so others can use them.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits effective within 30 days or less of start date.
• 401(k) matching with no vesting period; employees are fully vested on day one.
• Generous paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Flexible work environment.
• Collaborative work environment and collective culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level