Finance Analyst

Job Description

FP&A Analyst | Optimum

The Tone:
This role is for a Finance Analyst at Optimum, a company dedicated to providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions. Optimum empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation by ensuring the world stays connected through essential services. This position contributes to the company’s financial planning and control function, directly influencing strategic business decisions and ensuring the accuracy of financial forecasts and reports.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Location: Not specified

• Mission: To support the Planning & Control function by preparing and developing budgets, forecasts, and analyses of subscriber activities.
• Tech Stack: Copilot (AI), Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, graphs, charts)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budgeting: Directly prepare the annual budget and quarterly forecasts for assigned business areas.
• Collaboration: Work with business leaders to develop budgets and forecasts that align with company operational and financial goals.
• Reporting Consolidation: Assist in the consolidation and reporting of budgets and forecasts for the department, including subscriber activities.
• Subscriber Analysis: Conduct subscriber and statistical analysis, reporting, and tracking for all assigned business areas, providing supporting commentary.
• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Develop, report, and maintain both routine and ad-hoc statistical analyses as needed.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Experience: Previous experience in the preparation and analysis of budgets and forecasts is strongly preferred.
• Skills: Ability to analyze large amounts of data, excellent oral and written communications, detail-oriented problem-solving with the ability to probe facts and question assumptions, strong Excel skills including advanced formulas, pivot tables, graphs, and charts.
• Bonus: Experience with Copilot and general AI prompting.