Financial Analyst

Title: Financial Analyst Location: Dallas, Texas / Remote Reports to: Director, Finance The Role:

The Financial Analyst, Creator Shopping Platform (“FA”) will partner closely with the Creator Shopping (“CSP”) business leaders and their teams, as well as the finance team, to drive business unit objectives and provide financial planning and analysis services. The FA will be embedded in the CSP team, providing strategic support by developing financial models and generating analytical insights to evaluate business opportunities. Duties for the FA will include supporting the CSP Agency and Sales team to manage their compensation analysis, assist on ensuring accurate and timely results for both Transaction Revenue and SaaS lines of business.  Further, the FA will drive innovation to improve our planning and forecasting tools and processes.

The Creator Shopping Platform business unit is growing at a significant pace, both in terms of people and revenue, which presents a great opportunity for the FA to help steward that growth and take on new challenges along the way.

Areas of Responsibility:

•  Collaborate with CSP leadership and finance team members to create high-quality operating and financial forecasts, including the projection of sales, revenue, and expense
•  Partner with the CSP Sales team to understand the performance and areas of improvement for the Creator Sales Agency and Acquisition teams
•  Source information for sales incentive payments from key applications across the company and build accurate and scalable systems while considering efficiency and process
•  Provide decision support by conducting profitability analyses by creator sales person and by client account for the Creator Agency and Slaes line of business
•  Perform financial analysis to identify trends, concerns, and areas for process and/or reporting improvements
•  Work closely with the Director of Finance to outline and implement areas of improvement to P&L financial and business processes

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or related field
•  2+ years experience in finance or other related analytical experience
•  Excellent verbal, presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills -- including the ability to communicate

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•  Analytical, a problem solver, with strong attention to detail
•  Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, entrepreneurial environment
•  Balance multiple projects and meet necessary deadlines with limited supervision
•  Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills required