Senior Financial Analyst
ABOUT THIS POSITION
Aceable is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support strategic financial efforts across the company. They will act as a key partner to the Director of FP&A and collaborate with cross-functional department leaders to monitor and improve financial performance. As part of a small and nimble team, this role will have the opportunity to gain experience across multiple facets of a Finance organization.
ABOUT ACEABLE
Aceable is a mobile education platform focused on creating affordable, engaging, and convenient online courses available across all mobile devices. Built by former teachers, NASA engineers, and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people reach life goals and milestones through online certification.
After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver's ed courses, Aceable expanded into real estate education and is quickly becoming one of the leading online real estate schools in the U.S. To date, the Aceable team adds hundreds of thousands of students per month, and touts more than 20 million students served. We're only getting started, and we need your help to get us to our vision of millions of students per month.
Aceable has been awarded as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin for multiple years running by numerous entities, such as the Austin Business Journal, BuiltInAustin, and EqualOcean. We actively work to foster a creative, collaborative, and diverse culture whose overall mission is to impact as many student-lives as possible.
ABOUT THE FINANCE TEAM
The Finance team is a data-driven, results-oriented group that supports Aceable in monitoring and analyzing data for strategic decision-making. We take great pride in being a key partner to leaders across the organization as decisions about the business are considered. The Finance team consists of the Accounting, Business Intelligence, and FP&A. Aceable recently completed a $50 million Series C which will fuel impressive growth. Moving forward, Aceable will be well-positioned to grow organically and through acquisition in which the Finance team will play a critical part.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Support our daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual activities; including financial reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, board materials, etc
- Provide ongoing support to department leaders through preparation of monthly P&L reviews and updating headcount / operating expense forecasts
- Partner with Accounting to ensure a timely and accurate monthly close process
- Partner with Business Intelligence to develop, improve, and maintain insightful dashboards
- Create ad hoc analysis or reports for cross-functional departments or management as needed
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Consulting, Investment Banking, or similar quantitative field
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (vlookup, hlookup, index, match, sum, nested if, indirect, etc)
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain financial models, reports, forecasts, and budgets
- Strong attention to detail and drive to ensure accurate and timely results
- Be a trusted business partner who can synthesize complex data, analyses, and problems, and present findings in a clear and concise manner
- Solid organizational skills with experience juggling multiple projects and competing priorities
BONUS POINTS
- Proficiency working with large raw data sets, writing programming languages like SQL, using BI Tools like PowerBI, Tableau, or Looker
- Understanding of the three financial statements and how they interact with each other
- Experience using Google Sheets and an understanding of its differences from Excel
ACEABLE PERKS
- Join one of Austin's Best Places to Work in 2021
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Generous time off programs
- Flexible work schedule
- Passionate teammates excited to help you succeed and learn
- Our own space on the top floor of a downtown building
- A team meal every week
- Fully stocked drink fridges and snacks + cold brew coffee on tap
- Company events and activities (holiday events, happy hours, volunteering)
- Free parking spot downtown in our garage 24/7 or a monthly transportation stipend
- Education stipend ($500/year/full-time employee)
- Free Roadside Assistance subscription
- NOTE: Our team is currently remote due to Covid-19 and we have some awesome virtual perks that come with it (trivia, karaoke, bingo, happy hours, lunch & learns, and more)
At Aceable we celebrate and support all differences. Aceable is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital, disability, and veteran status.