FP&A Analyst

$70,000 - $75,000/Yr

Lightpath - Golden, CO

Full-time - Entry Level

Golden, CO

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About the position

The FP&A Analyst position at LightPath involves providing financial and strategic analysis to support business growth. The role includes responsibilities such as budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, while collaborating with department stakeholders to analyze strategic alternatives. This position is highly visible within the organization, reporting to the Director of FP&A and interacting regularly with senior leadership and business owners.

Responsibilities

• Maintain long-term model and valuation model, including scenario analysis, to support multi-year planning.
• Coordinate the development of annual operating budgets and rolling quarterly forecasts.
• Create and update quarterly and monthly reporting deliverables to department heads, senior management, and the Board of Managers.
• Build relationships across finance and the broader organization; understand programmatic initiatives and priorities; partner with program leads to develop financial and non-financial metrics.
• Support corporate development activities, future growth opportunities and strategic decision making. Partner with key stakeholders on financial models, business cases, scenario modeling and ROI analysis.
• Identify, develop, or improve financial and operational metrics used to drive the business. Oversight of the development of tools to monitor those key metrics. Work cross functionally to develop reports and analysis, as needed, and test underlying assumptions.
• Act as trusted advisor to cross functional business leaders, anticipate needs and make recommendations.
• Work with key stakeholders on deal quoting and pricing models.
• Work and coordinate due-diligence of buy-side acquisition targets, organizing logistics, interfacing with leadership, advisors, and investors to complete in-depth assessments of deals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, data analytics or equivalent experience.
• 1-5 years of progressive experience working with data analysis, modeling, business systems within mid to large organizations.
• Knowledge of US GAAP, internal controls & financial reporting.
• Proven experience in financial and operational modeling, forecasting, strategic analysis, and data analytics (M&A, expansion, corp dev support).
• Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in interpreting business and technical requirements and making decisions that are optimal for Lightpath value creation.

Nice-to-haves

• Private equity, investment banking, FP&A, or equivalent operating experience.
• Telecom experience preferred but not required.
• Knowledge of Hyperion/Essbase, Oracle, Salesforce preferred.

Benefits

• vision insurance
• 401(k)
• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• company matched 401k