Sr. Financial Analyst

Babel Street • Reston, VA

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About The Position

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its Finance team, working closely with the Director, FP&A and Senior Manager, FP&A. The role supports forecasting, cash management, budgeting, financial reporting, operational analysis, and strategic decision-making, with exposure to the CFO, senior leadership, department heads, investors, and other stakeholders.

The Senior Financial Analyst will own key FP&A processes, including weekly cash forecasting, monthly rolling forecasts, departmental budgeting and reporting, and ad hoc analysis. The role also contributes to annual budgeting, long-range planning, M&A analysis, and modernization of Finance workflows through automation, AI-enabled tools, and improved use of data. The ideal candidate combines financial rigor, business judgment, technological fluency, communication skills, and curiosity about how the business operates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, Big 4 Advisory, consulting, or another highly analytical and business-facing role.
• Strong accounting and financial statement knowledge, including understanding the relationship between the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
• Advanced Excel financial modeling and data-analysis skills, including the ability to build, audit, maintain, and improve complex models and reporting tools and analyze large datasets accurately and efficiently.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial planning processes.
• Hands-on experience with ERP, financial planning, reporting, business intelligence, or data-visualization systems, and ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Sound judgment, learning agility, and demonstrated impact.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a high-growth, recurring-revenue, SaaS, or PE-backed environment.
• CPA, CFA, MBA, or relevant analytics or systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the weekly cash forecasting process, partnering with Accounting and other stakeholders to understand expected cash inflows and outflows, identify potential liquidity issues, and improve forecast accuracy.
• Maintain and enhance the monthly rolling forecast and long-range financial model, keeping assumptions current, outputs accurate, and key operational and financial drivers understood and communicated.
• Partner with department heads on budgets and forecasts, constructively challenge assumptions, investigate variances, and identify practical opportunities to improve operating and spending decisions.
• Support annual budgeting and long-range planning by collecting, analyzing, and consolidating revenue and expense inputs from departments.
• Deliver decision-ready analyses of business performance, investment opportunities, strategic initiatives, and management questions, including conclusions, risks, and recommended actions.
• Support M&A activities, including financial due diligence, modeling, and analytics related to potential acquisitions.
• Improve FP&A processes, reporting, models, data flows, and systems to increase speed, accuracy, control, and scalability; identify work to automate, standardize, simplify, or eliminate.
• Evaluate and use automation, AI-enabled tools, and emerging technologies to improve financial processes, accelerate analysis, and enhance decision-making.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand operational drivers, challenge assumptions constructively, and translate financial insights into business action.

Benefits

• Babel Street covers 85–100% of monthly premium costs for medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance for employees and their families.
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans with a competitive match.
• Unlimited flexible leave.
• 12 paid federal holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement for continuing education.

What This Job Offers

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