Senior Financial Analyst

Senior FP&A Analyst

Location: Triangle, NC Area (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

About the Role

A growing consumer-focused organization is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to join its finance team. This role serves as a strategic business partner across multiple departments, providing financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and decision support that helps leadership improve performance and make informed business decisions.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical FP&A skills with business acumen, communication abilities, and a proactive mindset. This individual will be responsible for management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, and business partnership initiatives while helping improve reporting processes, system capabilities, and overall financial visibility.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with 3-5 years of FP&A or corporate finance experience who wants exposure to executive leadership, operational decision-making, and long-term career growth.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare monthly management reporting packages and executive financial summaries
• Analyze revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, and profitability trends
• Develop meaningful variance analysis and business performance commentary
• Create dashboards, KPI reporting, and executive-level presentations
• Improve reporting automation and reporting efficiency
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Partner with department leaders to support operating expense management and business planning
• Perform budget-to-actual analysis and provide actionable recommendations
• Develop financial business cases for investments, staffing requests, and strategic initiatives
• Conduct profitability, cost-benefit, and performance analyses
• Support operational and strategic projects across the organization

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead forecasting activities for assigned business functions
• Support annual budget development and long-range planning processes
• Develop driver-based forecasting models and scenario analyses
• Monitor spending trends and identify financial risks and opportunities
• Recommend actions to improve forecast accuracy and overall business performance

Systems & Process Improvement

• Support financial planning and reporting systems
• Improve financial processes, data quality, and reporting workflows
• Assist with dashboard development and reporting automation initiatives
• Leverage AI-enabled tools and technologies to improve productivity and financial insights

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• 3-5 years of FP&A, Financial Analysis, Corporate Finance, or related experience
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes
• Strong understanding of financial statements and business performance drivers
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
• Experience working with large financial datasets
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail

Preferred

• Experience supporting multiple business leaders in a mid-sized organization
• Experience in consumer products, retail, omnichannel, franchise, or multi-location environments
• Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Workday, or similar
• Experience with planning tools such as NetSuite Planning, Adaptive, Anaplan, Oracle EPM, or similar
• Power BI, dashboarding, or data visualization experience
• Experience utilizing AI tools in a professional finance environment

Role Highlights

• High-visibility FP&A role with significant exposure to leadership
• Strong focus on business partnership and decision support
• Ownership of forecasting, reporting, and analysis responsibilities
• Opportunity to build financial models and influence strategic decisions
• Exposure to finance technology, reporting automation, and AI initiatives
• Collaborative team environment with strong career development opportunities
• Hybrid work schedule with flexibility when needed

By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.

Equal Opportunity Notice

Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco by Highspring”) are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] .

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

· the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;

· licensure and certification requirements;

· office location and other geographic considerations; and

· other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).

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