Senior Financial Transformation Analyst

DailyPay•New York, NY

7d•$100,000 - $131,000•Hybrid

About The Position

DailyPay is seeking a highly motivated Senior Analyst, Financial Transformation & Analytics to join our Strategic Finance (StratFin) team. This role serves as the primary architect and technical owner of the financial planning infrastructure, designing scalable models for enterprise-wide forecasting, planning, and reporting. A key responsibility is to evaluate the current planning environment (Anaplan) and recommend whether to optimize it or migrate to a more suitable tool. This position operates at the intersection of financial systems engineering and core FP&A, shaping both the infrastructure and the insights relied upon by leadership.

Requirements

Proven track record of building sophisticated, scalable, and dynamic models in one or more enterprise financial planning platforms (e.g., Anaplan, Pigment, Workday Adaptive, Oracle EPM, OneStream, or comparable).
Hands-on back-end development and architecture experience is essential.
3–5+ years analytical experience in Data Analytics, Corporate Finance, or a related field.
Strong fluency in the monthly close cycle, P&L dynamics, and the drivers behind financial variances.
Solid understanding of fundamental accounting concepts and an instinct for identifying when a forecast does not tie to the ledger.
Ability to distill complex financial datasets into clear, actionable insights for senior business partners.
Ability to explain technical system issues in plain, accessible language.
A "team-first" attitude with the ability to work seamlessly with cross-functional partners and other subgroups within Strategic Finance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with NetSuite or comparable ERPs.
Experience with BI tools such as Hyperion or Tableau.
Advanced Excel fluency is assumed.

Responsibilities

Serve as the lead developer and technical point of contact for the Finance function's planning infrastructure, designing, building, and maintaining models, modules, and dashboards for enterprise-wide planning with deep, hands-on command of back-end architecture, data structures, and logic flows.
Conduct a rigorous assessment of the current Anaplan environment against business requirements, research and evaluate alternative financial planning tools (e.g., Pigment, Workday Adaptive, Oracle EPM, OneStream), and synthesize findings into a clear recommendation with a supporting business case for leadership.
Act as the primary lead for SOX compliance within the Finance function, designing, implementing, and testing key internal controls to ensure all financial reporting processes are audit-ready and meet rigorous regulatory standards.
Implement and manage rigorous reconciliation processes across master data, revenue models, and expense plans to ensure absolute accuracy across all organizational reporting channels, serving as the final check that financial outputs tie across systems, files, and frameworks.
Drive the creation of high-stakes content for internal leadership and external stakeholders (e.g., Board of Directors, Investors, and Lenders), translating complex financial datasets into clear, data-verified, and visually impactful deliverables.