Senior Financial Analyst
Advantive Tampa, Florida, United States
Software Development · 201-500 employees
About the role
The Senior Financial Analyst will serve as the subject-matter expert for company expenses, owning forecasts for workforce planning and vendor spend. They will also partner with business leaders to identify savings opportunities and support monthly close and corporate reporting processes.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires an analytically strong operator with expertise in financial modeling and expense management. Candidates should be proficient in Excel and capable of building bottoms-up forecasts while providing actionable insights to support strategic decision-making.
Full description
Senior Financial Analyst
The Senior Financial Analyst reports to the Corporate Finance Manager and serves as the company’s expense subject-matter expert. In this role, you will own and maintain expense forecasts—spanning workforce planning, vendor spend, and other non-operating expenses—identify and quantify savings opportunities, and deliver clear, actionable insights that improve outcomes and support growth.
You will partner closely with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A business partnership, support other business partners across the organization with their expense needs, and play a central role in the monthly close and in maintaining forecasts within our financial planning platform (Adaptive). You will also support internal and external corporate reporting.
This role is designed to grow. You will begin by supporting the Corporate Finance Manager across these areas and progressively take full ownership of expense forecasting, workforce planning, and related reporting. It is a high-impact opportunity for an analytically strong, business-minded operator who brings rigor, curiosity, and a strategic lens to FP&A.
Key Responsibilities
·Serve as the company-wide expense subject-matter expert—the go-to authority for business partners on expense methodology, budget challenge, and spend visibility—owning forecasts across workforce planning, vendor spend, and other non-operating expenses
·Proactively analyze expense data to identify and surface savings opportunities across the business, quantifying impact and partnering with stakeholders to drive realization
·Own the personnel model end-to-end, maintaining and continually improving the workforce planning forecast and ensuring headcount, compensation, and related inputs are accurate, current, and clearly visible
·Build and maintain vendor and other non-operating expense forecasts using detailed, bottoms-up methodology
·Own and maintain financial proformas, ensuring models reflect current assumptions
·Partner with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A business partnership, and support other business partners with expense planning, analysis, and ad hoc requests
·Play a key role in the monthly close, including expense accruals, variance analysis, and clearly communicating drivers of performance versus budget and forecast
·Play an active role in the annual budgeting and reforecasting process, developing expense budgets and partnering with stakeholders to build and challenge their plans
·Maintain forecasts and model structure within Adaptive, ensuring data integrity across the planning platform
·Support the development and delivery of internal and external corporate reporting tailored to management and board-level needs
·Perform detailed variance analysis and translate results into clear, actionable narratives—explaining performance drivers versus budget and forecast—to support decision-making at all levels
·Build and maintain financial models that support strategic decision-making
·Extract actionable insights from imperfect or incomplete datasets using advanced Excel modeling techniques
·Gain exposure to three-statement modeling, cash and leverage forecasting, and proforma methodology, with the opportunity to contribute as the role expands
·Progress toward full ownership of expense forecasting, workforce planning, and related reporting over time
·Deliver high-quality outputs consistently in a fast-paced environment, managing time efficiently and maintaining productivity under pressure
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