FP&A Analyst

$70,000 - $75,000/Yr

Altice USA - Golden, CO

posted about 2 months ago

Full-time - Entry Level
Golden, CO
Telecommunications

About the position

The FP&A Analyst position at Lightpath is a critical role that involves partnering with various business units to provide comprehensive financial and strategic analysis. This includes responsibilities such as budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, as well as collaborating with department stakeholders to explore strategic alternatives for business growth. The analyst will report directly to the Director of FP&A and will have high visibility with the senior leadership team, regularly interacting with business owners across the organization. In this role, the analyst will be responsible for traditional financial planning tasks, including managing the quarterly forecasting process, developing key operational and financial metrics, and producing financial reports. The position also supports corporate development activities, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and expansion analysis, providing essential analysis as needed. The FP&A Analyst will maintain long-term and valuation models, conduct scenario analysis, and coordinate the development of annual operating budgets and rolling quarterly forecasts. The analyst will create and update reporting deliverables for department heads, senior management, and the Board of Managers, while building relationships across finance and the broader organization. This role requires strong communication, critical thinking, and problem-resolution skills, as the analyst will act as a trusted advisor to cross-functional business leaders, anticipating their needs and making informed recommendations. Additionally, the analyst will work on deal quoting and pricing models, coordinate due diligence for buy-side acquisition targets, and interface with leadership, advisors, and investors to conduct thorough assessments of potential deals.

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.
  • Private equity, investment banking, FP&A, or equivalent operating 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).
  • Telecom experience preferred but not required.
  • High aptitude and understanding in operational finance and value creation.
  • Highly motivated with an eagerness to learn new technologies, be part of a collaborative team, and maintain a transformational and creative mindset.
  • High energy self-motivator with a strong work ethic and ability to multi-task.
  • Ability to work effectively through collaboration across disciplines and partners.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects from inception to completion across multiple departments.
  • Comfort working with and distilling large and ambiguous data sets to form meaningful analysis, opinions, and messaging.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both technical and non-technical issues and resolve problems at all levels of the organization both internally and externally.
  • Proven ability to drive results in an ever changing and fast paced environment.
  • Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Knowledge of Hyperion/Essbase, Oracle, Salesforce preferred.
  • Proficient in interpreting business and technical requirements and making decisions that are optimal for Lightpath value creation.

Nice-to-haves

  • Telecom experience preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Company matched 401k
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