Senior Financial Analyst

EXCLUSIVE JETS LLC • Raleigh, NC

18d • Onsite

About The Position

flyExclusive is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst within its Finance organization. This role offers exposure to senior leadership and an immediate opportunity to shape decisions that impact top-line and bottom-line results. This is a perfect fit for an intellectually curious builder who is eager for a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to contribute to enterprise growth and continuous improvement. The Senior Financial Analyst owns financial modeling, forecasting, reporting, and profitability analysis — and does it as an AI-first operator. Beyond producing analysis, this person is expected to build the tooling and automations that make the Finance function faster, more accurate, and more scalable. You will partner with the CFO and Finance organization on financial analysis, quarterly forecasts, the annual budget, operating-plan variance analysis, special projects, and ad hoc requests, while continuously replacing manual, repetitive work with durable automated solutions. What “AI-first” means in this role: We are not looking for someone who runs the same manual workbook every month. We are looking for someone who treats every recurring task as a candidate for automation, and who uses modern AI tools to compress the time between a business question and a trustworthy answer. Automate the routine — identify manual, repetitive Finance workflows (reporting packages, reconciliations, variance walks, data pulls) and build solutions that run them reliably with minimal human touch. Build, don’t just consume — use AI coding assistants and LLM tools to prototype scripts, models, and lightweight applications that extend what one analyst can accomplish. Raise the floor on quality — design checks, controls, and reconciliations into automated processes so speed never comes at the cost of accuracy. Scale your judgment — turn one-off analyses into reusable templates and tools the broader Finance team can run themselves.

Requirements

• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, with a commitment to accuracy and attention to detail.
• Comfort working with data beyond spreadsheets — e.g., SQL, or a strong track record of picking up technical tools quickly to manipulate data and build automations (scripting languages like Python are a plus, not a requirement).
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., LLM assistants, AI coding copilots) to do real work faster — or clear evidence of an aptitude and enthusiasm to do so.
• A builder’s mindset: sees a manual process and instinctively asks how to automate it.
• Highly organized and able to handle large volumes of data.
• Ability to perform thorough analyses of financial statements and make recommendations to Directors and VPs to establish goals and roadmaps to achieve them.
• Knowledge of corporate financial planning, reporting & analysis, and costing/profitability methodologies and processes, as well as common business and cost drivers and financial statement analysis.
• A self-starter who is highly motivated with strong initiative.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on clear written and oral communication.
• Microsoft Office; comfort learning and adopting new software and AI tools quickly
• 2–6 years of Finance or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), investment banking, consulting, or equivalent experience — demonstrated through one or a combination of work experience, training, military experience, and education.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience automating financial or analytical workflows (scripts, tools, or applications you have built).
• Experience working with data warehouses, BI tools, or the modern data stack.

Responsibilities

• Performs detailed research and variance analysis against forecast, budget, and actuals across cost, revenue, capital expense, liabilities, and other operating metrics.
• Facilitates the monthly close and analysis of profit & loss, working capital, and non-financial accounts to ensure accuracy and timeliness, provide performance recommendations, and maintain compliance.
• Builds and maintains automated reporting and forecasting solutions that reduce manual effort and cycle time while improving accuracy.
• Uses AI tools and scripting (e.g., Python, SQL, AI coding assistants) to accelerate data preparation, analysis, and the production of recurring deliverables.
• Participates in the annual budgeting process, including preparation of detailed income and expense budgets at the unit level and other key metrics.
• Performs quantitative analysis and financial modeling of internal and external data to provide insight on drivers of profitability.
• Monitors and analyzes financial data and key business metrics to determine progress against plans, forecasts, and budgets.
• Finalizes monthly analyses of business trends, budget variance, and KPIs for management reviews and strategic business analysis sessions.
• Provides forecast analysis of key metrics and other financial consulting related to business performance, operating, and strategic reviews.
• Partners with departments to develop forecast models that improve management of capital and expense budgets.
• Documents and shares the tools and automations they build so the broader team can adopt and maintain them.

What This Job Offers

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