Financial and Business Analyst

About The Opportunity

• This opening is for a financial and business analyst position to support State agencies with
• implementation and reporting of federally funded programs focused on assisting organizations
• with overcoming the short-term and long-term impacts of COVID-19. The candidate will work on
• a dynamic team comprised of highly experienced policy and program specialists, data analysts
• and highly engaged administration leaders on fast-paced projects.

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Create, update, and analyze project-related financial reporting
• Utilize existing research and analysis to develop defendable assumptions and hypotheses
• Build, maintain and calibrate job aids and project tools to facilitate effective planning,
• analysis and decision making
• Develop and lead presentations or meeting aids for internal and external stakeholders
• Develop, set, and utilize analytical frameworks, KPIs, and applicable metrics and
• benchmarks to evaluate project performance and to meet compliance requirements
• Provide support as needed across all projects / initiatives

Required Skills

Experience:
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in public financial and/or business analysis;
• Proven knowledge base/track-record of working in a fast-paced and dynamic work
• environment
• Bachelor’s Degree; MBA a plus
Strengths:
• Mastery of Excel, with thorough knowledge required to build comprehensive financial
• reports and defend & articulate assumptions and outputs
• Strong analytical, strategic, and critical thinker who challenges conventional thinking,
• finding insights beyond the numbers and story
• Strong, confident writing ability; possesses ability to synthesize information into
• digestible memos, decks, etc.
• Strong self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit who takes full responsibility and
• ownership of tasks
• Supportive team player who advocates and accelerates the ideas of others, but is
• comfortable with providing dissenting opinions in a respectful manner
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Excel and Powerpoint)

Duration

6 Months