[Remote] Financial Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Living Proof is seeking an FP&A Analyst to support financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis across the organization. This role combines sharp analytics with executive-ready storytelling to deliver insights that drive action. You will partner cross-functionally, strengthen forecasting rigor, and manage financial dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the development of annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and long-range financial plans
- Support the implementation and ongoing management of Workday Adaptive Planning
- Collaborate cross-functionally to gather inputs, assumptions, and key business drivers
- Analyze financial performance vs. budget/forecast; highlight variances, trends, risks, and opportunities
- Build and maintain financial models that inform business decisions and strategic initiatives
- Support creation of dashboards and data visualizations for senior leadership (Power BI preferred)
- Support the management budgets for multiple departments with a focus on ROI and fiscal discipline
- Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, automation, and accuracy
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 0-2 years of experience in FP&A / corporate finance (preferred; we care more about capability than tenure)
- Strong analytical skills including financial modeling, forecasting, and comfort with quantitative methods
- Proficiency with an ERP (e.g., NetSuite, SAP ByDesign) and planning tools (e.g., Workday Adaptive Planning); implementation experience is a plus
- Experience building interactive dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, or Looker
- Excellent communication skills: can translate complex analysis into clear, actionable takeaways
- High attention to detail, strong sense of ownership, and ability to manage shifting priorities
- Is smart, deeply curious, and learns fast - especially new systems and new business problems (self-starter / self-learner)
- Can take one sentence of direction and come back with the model, the analysis, the “so what,” the recommended next steps—and the two things we didn't ask for but should've
- Lives in Excel (advanced formulas, clean structuring, speed + accuracy), builds strong models, and can pressure-test assumptions
- Turns numbers into crisp PowerPoint narratives (simple, visual, executive-ready)
- Builds Power BI dashboards and visualizations that enable real-time insight—not just “pretty charts”
- Thinks like a systems connector (ERP ? planning tool ? reporting ? dashboards), and loves improving processes rather than working around them
- Brings a great personality: low-ego, high-output, collaborative, and reliable under pressure
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