Sr. Analyst, Financial (Future Opportunity)

Alaska Communications•Washington, DC

5d•$82,747 - $108,877•Onsite

About The Position

This is a Future Opportunity posting, meaning applications will be actively reviewed for current and future openings and filled as vacancies become available. Alaska Communications is committed to putting its team first, being customer-focused, having a can-do attitude, owning results, and always acting with integrity. The Sr. Analyst, Financial role involves translating data into critical information for strategy development, execution, and problem resolution by gathering information from multiple sources, developing spreadsheets, completing analyses, writing reports, and preparing presentations. The position translates raw data into information for decision support and operations management, develops standard financial models, performs ad hoc analysis, and supports financial planning through business intelligence development.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field. Equivalent education, experience and training may be substituted for the degree requirement on a year for year basis.
Four years of progressively responsible professional-level financial analysis experience. Equivalent education and training may be substituted for experience.
Demonstrated proficiency working with Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook.
Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel required.
Mid-expert level proficiency in BI Tools/Visualization techniques.
Detail Oriented: Proficient at detailed documentation of financial processes, changes, modeling assumptions, and maintaining version control.
Financial Management: Highly knowledgeable in standard financial metrics, models, and presentation creation, maintenance, and interpretation.
Communication Skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills, with frequent preparation and delivery of detailed plans and proposals. Strong communication/interpersonal skills with emphasis on decision-making, conflict management, and teamwork. Ability to develop work plans, work effectively as a member of a team, report on project status, and represent the team in meetings.
Analytical Skills: Ability to use thinking and reasoning in gathering raw data, processing it into a meaningful form, and translating it for a wide audience concisely.
Accountability: Ability to plan, organize, measure, and coordinate multiple tasks to deliver the budget and subsequent analysis for P&L under standard financial deadlines. Deliver ad-hoc (or what-if) analysis as needed.
Technical Aptitude: Ability to quickly learn as a self-starter under minimal supervision, use complex systems and applications (SQL, BI Tools/Software, Data mining).

Nice To Haves

SQL and other data mining techniques preferred.

Responsibilities

Work largely on projects with substantial complexity, breadth of scope, and impact to the organization, delivering analyses critical to strategy development, execution, and problem resolution.
Serve as a resource for standard and specialized subject matter expertise.
Collect data on actual financial performance, compare to budgeted performance, analyze variances, and prepare periodic reports for executive management.
Participate in the ongoing analysis and maintenance of financial systems, assisting with system upgrades and conversions to modern business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI).
Construct and maintain sophisticated financial models in support of the operating and capital budget development and reporting processes (e.g., P&L, Long-Term, Cash Flow, and Balance Sheet modeling).
Compile data submitted by managers, compare to budget targets, identify variances, and submit for review by executive management.
Assist in the development of value-add KPIs.
Serve as a resource for internal customers by researching and answering capital and operating budget questions.
Perform complex financial analysis associated with special projects, including pre-acquisition analyses, acquisitions, business cases, and refinancing.
Assist in developing short and long-term IT plans and forecasts.
Other duties as assigned.