Strategic Finance Analyst
Customers don’t experience data, they experience content. Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to accelerate their marketing performance. Headquartered in New York City, Movable Ink and its more than 500 employees serve its global client base from operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
The Strategic Finance Analyst will partner with key stakeholders to facilitate data-driven, strategic decision making across Movable Ink. This role reports to the Director of Strategic Finance & Analytics and provides a high level of exposure to the executive team; the ideal candidate will be comfortable navigating such a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment with minimal guidance.
Responsibilities:
- Own company financial and operating models, and perform ad hoc analyses to inform strategic initiatives (e.g., new products, international expansion, resource allocation)
- Enable data-driven decisions by working closely as an “analytical arm” to department heads, building business cases that shape key strategies
- Deliver insight into our business metrics, highlighting key trends and providing high-level commentary for use by management
- Support Movable Ink’s annual budgeting process, compensation planning, and forecast review meetings with department heads
- Assist in the preparation of materials for the Board and executive team, including supporting analysis to contextualize performance
- Proactively identify and analyze opportunities to drive business improvements and share actionable insights with management
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of finance and accounting experience (preferably in strategic finance, investment banking, valuation, private equity, or a similar function)
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and conducting analyses across multiple data sources and systems (NetSuite, Salesforce, Tableau/Looker, and Google Sheets experience a plus)
- Advanced financial modeling skills, from understanding and iterating on existing analyses to building out complex models from scratch
- Strong grasp of finance and accounting principles, including prior experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Strategic thinker with experience translating quantitative measurements into operational understanding and communicating findings cross-functionally; comfort with ambiguity
- Strong attention to detail, with a history of producing defensible and scalable analyses
- Openness to iterating on prior work and rethinking established assumptions
- Ability to effectively prioritize deliverables and manage projects end-to-end
- Knowledge of SaaS and relevant industry metrics a plus
