Strategic Finance Analyst

HighlightTA • Madison, MS

1d • Remote

About The Position

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Finance, the Strategic Finance Analyst will serve as a key thought partner to FP&A and business leadership across departments. The role will support FP&A in developing forecast drivers, conduct deep-dive analysis across the business — including payments performance — and collaborate closely with the Data Analytics professional to deliver intuitive dashboards and performance reporting.
The successful candidate will go beyond surface-level metrics to provide clear insights into what happened, why it happened, and what actions the business should take as a result. This is not a traditional reporting role; it is a strategic, insight-driven position focused on influencing decisions and improving business outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience analyzing large data sets.
• 3+ years of experience in an analyst role.
• Financial modeling experience that includes communicating with key stakeholders.
• Proactive thinker with strong analytical skills.
• Possess a strong sense of intellectual curiosity; motivated to examine and understand the fundamental drivers of problems, bring them to the forefront of discussion, and drive change.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
• Working knowledge of SQL in order to mine data.
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity, automate analysis, and improve decision support while maintaining strong analytical rigor and data integrity.

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of payment methods & processes as well as the payments industry - is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Payments and Transactional Revenue Reconciliations (volume and rate reconciliations).
• Monitor Revenue and Payments/Transactions trends, investigate anomalies and provide teams with insights.
• Provide proactive guidance on impacts to the business
• Provide analysis on new initiatives, ie R.O.I. modeling and modeling the success of the initiatives once they are implemented.
• Refine and enhance efficiency and effectiveness of dashboards.
• Identify anomalies/data integrity issues.
• KPI reporting, ad hoc data analysis, and project related financial modeling.
• Collaborate with other departments including Accounting, Sales, Product, Engineering and RevOps.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed