Senior Business Analyst - Finance
FabFitFun, one of the fastest growing companies in L.A. and the U.S. according to Inc, Forbes and E&Y, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to perform deep analytical work, providing both analyses and recommendations for our Finance & Accounting teams. In a newly created role, this Analyst will become an expert in our source data, and analyzing the business impacts of various initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams, including Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, Product, and Engineering.
Our ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, a strong communicator, incredibly curious, and technically capable with a deep desire to discover and deliver data-driven business insights. This role is critical to fuel our data-driven culture and to help us make informed business decisions.
What you’ll do:
- Perform analyses and build reports that will drive business decisions specifically for the Finance & Accounting functions
- Support the Finance & Accounting teams on month end close efforts as well as yearly financial audits, financial forecast models ( FP&A ) and annual planning processes
- Conduct ad-hoc analytics requests using the internal data warehouse in Redshift, Microsoft Excel, and Looker
- Partner with our data engineering and technical teams to ensure that our data is accurate in our databases
- Assist in reconciliation of financial metrics for accurate financial reporting between core source systems like Recurly, Stripe, and Finale
- Define reporting requirements in partnership with Finance team and translate into technical requirements to build a comprehensive analytics solution
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Information Technology or another technical field
- Expert knowledge and ability to leverage SQL queries to surface data from source systems and build reports
- Proven success in delivering impactful insights and data visualization using Looker and other BI reporting tools including Tableau, Pentaho, or Microstrategy.
- Excellent communicator and interest in leading projects
- 3+ years of documented experience in an analytical related role
- Understanding of finance/accounting reporting needs and metrics
- Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), cloud data platform (Redshift) & other business intelligence tools
- Advanced skills in MS Excel, including pivot tables, formulas and charting
- Knowledge of revenue recognition, inventory management and deferred revenue is preferred
- Experience working with Python, R and similar tools for data mining is a plus
- Understanding of ecommerce and/or subscription business models
What you’ll get:
- Provide actionable data insights across all our business functions to enable optimization and identify new business opportunities
- Opportunity for a data enthusiast, not afraid of data deluge and messy data, and a great story-teller, to experiment and pioneer new frontiers
- Amazing benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA, and 401k
- Unlimited PTO
- Catered meals, kitchen stocked with great snacks and drinks
- Free FabFitFun subscription and and quarterly credit in the Add-Ons store