Sr. Financial Analyst

Perry Homes•Houston, TX

11h

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst supports the finance organization through detailed analysis, strategic insights, and proactive partnership with business leaders. This role plays is key in driving the annual budget process, supporting key sales and operations leaders with the home pricing strategy, and maintaining strong financial discipline through variance analysis.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar discipline required.
A minimum of 4 years of relevant finance or accounting experience required.
Demonstrated computer skills including a working knowledge of MS Office products, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Strong analytical abilities and ability to communicate analytical findings both verbally (in meetings) and in written form (through formal presentations, PowerPoint).
Business/financial modeling skills and high accuracy with numbers required.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred, reflecting advanced analytical, strategic, and leadership capabilities.
Big 4 public accounting experience a strong plus, reflecting advanced technical proficiency, analytical rigor, and exposure to complex financial reporting environments.

Responsibilities

Analyze and document budget to actual performance on a monthly basis, including P&L and balance sheet analysis; Department, construction, and sales overhead analysis; Closed job budget analysis.
Perform critical financial processes, which includes but is not limited to the following: Product Pricing (Base Price Worksheets); Margin Analysis on homes for sale; Margin Analysis on closed jobs; Ad Hoc field requests (Profit Participation, Development Analysis, etc.).
Support and further enhance corporate consolidated financial model, which is used extensively for inventory management, developing financial statement forecasts, and to ensure compliance with company credit and capital requirements and objectives.
Identify and evaluate opportunities to enhance financial processes using artificial intelligence (AI)—including automation of routine analyses, streamlining data workflows, and leveraging machine-learning insights—to drive operational efficiency, improve forecasting accuracy, and support data-driven decision-making across the finance organization.
Assist in company budget process, which includes but is not limited to the following: Prepare budget model and templates; Collaborate with department heads to prepare operating expense and capital expenditure budgets; Consolidate the operating revenue and expense and capital expenditure forecasts by month to prepare the annual plan and incorporate into the corporate consolidated financial model; Upload final budget into reporting data warehouse.
Perform rigorous monthly budget-to-actuals due diligence by department, including scheduling and leading cross-functional review sessions to analyze variances, validate underlying drivers, and capture departmental insights to inform accurate forecasts and actionable financial recommendations.
Conduct quarterly market analysis of publicly traded residential construction companies, synthesizing financial performance, industry trends, competitive positioning, and emerging risks to inform strategic planning and support executive decision-making.