Strategic Finance Analyst

Zenlayer, Inc•Diamond Bar, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are a global cloud infrastructure company focused on compute, networking, and AI infrastructure. Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team sits at the center of company-level financial planning and business performance analysis that support executive decision-making. This is a generalist analyst role with a practical, execution-oriented scope. Day-to-day, the work spans financial analysis, profitability reporting, executive presentation prep, and supporting the monthly FP&A reporting cycle. The team is small and your work and impact are visible. This is a good fit if you’re self-motivated, learn fast, and take pride in turning out clean, reliable work. This is not a role with a narrow, well-defined scope. This is also not a reporting or data visualization role. We are looking for someone who can use data to answer hard questions quickly and then communicate those answers clearly to senior audiences. If you thrive in small teams and creative, minimally structured work environments, let us know!

Requirements

Bilingual fluency in Mandarin Chinese
Solid financial modeling and Excel skills; you build clean, well-structured models and know how to maintain them
Ability to pull and manipulate data independently; SQL is a plus but not required if you can get the job done another way
Experience with profitability analysis or business performance reporting, such as customer-level, regional, or product-level P&L work
Ability to build clean, logically structured executive PowerPoints
Attention to detail and reliability; the monthly reporting cycle depends on you getting it right
Clear written communication and the judgment to know when a quick answer is better than a perfect one
Willingness to work evening hours on a regular basis to coordinate with teams in China

Nice To Haves

Experience in cloud infrastructure or a capital-intensive business
Background in investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or a high-output in-house finance team

Responsibilities

Monthly FP&A reporting
Own key components of the monthly FP&A report: pulling data, assembling the pack, and ensuring accuracy and consistency across cuts
Maintain and improve recurring reporting templates over time
Flag variances and anomalies proactively; don't just assemble numbers, understand them
Profitability and business performance analysis
Build and maintain profitability analyses by customer, region, product line, etc.
Support business performance reviews and the FP&A Business Partner in China on planning cycles, reporting, and business unit analysis
Turn around ad hoc requests from senior leadership quickly; think hours, not days
Executive presentations
Prepare executive-facing PowerPoint materials including operating reviews, strategy updates, and board materials, working directly with the Head of Strategy & FP&A
Translate financial analysis and business narratives into clean, structured slides for a senior audience
Maintain consistency and quality across recurring presentation templates
Data and analytical execution
Pull, clean, and manipulate data independently; you don’t need a data team to run queries for you
Work across multiple data sources to assemble coherent views of business performance
Support the broader team with analysis, formatting, and data preparation as needed