Financial Analyst

Czarnowski Collective • Denver, CO

2d • $72,000 - $88,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Financial Analyst supports the Denver Account Services Group's planning, forecasting, and management reporting cycle. Reporting to the Director of FP&A, the role prepares monthly variance analysis, maintains budget and forecast models, analyzes project profitability, and turns operating results into insights for leadership.

This is a hands-on role for an analyst with 2–4 years of experience who can build financial models and explain them to non-finance partners. The analyst works across a project-based business, partnering with studio, operations, sales, and production teams to connect project economics and utilization to consolidated financial results.

The role is based in Denver, Colorado, with a hybrid schedule of three days per week on-site and the balance remote. It includes regular video collaboration with colleagues in other offices and occasional travel, approximately 5%, 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 financial results mean.
• 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, planning/EPM, business-intelligence, productivity, and project/job-costing tool categories is expected; specific platform experience is a plus and can be learned on the job.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a project-based or services business, such as agency, marketing services, construction, engineering, made-to-order manufacturing, 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 platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Sage Intacct, Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, Vena, Oracle EPM, OneStream, 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 scenario analyses 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 performance drivers.
• Build schedules, charts, and slides for executive, board, and ownership reviews.
• Analyze project margins, direct and indirect cost trends, and labor utilization; identify 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, answering questions in plain language.
• Prepare well-structured ad hoc analyses for leadership and clearly state assumptions.
• Partner 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 the start date.
• 401(k) plan with matching and no vesting period; employees are fully vested on day one.
• Generous paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Collaborative work environment.
• Flexible work environment.

What This Job Offers

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