Financial Analyst, Sr

Description

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

About the Role:

At Realtor.com, you’ll be a key member of our best-in-class FP&A team, building the financial models that help us understand our business and drive our strategy forward. This role is designed for a curious, resourceful learner and automation-minded analyst who finds professional satisfaction in building clean, logical, driver-based models and maintaining meticulous file hygiene. You will act as a strategic partner to your business area, working side-by-side with leaders to explain the "why" behind the numbers, ensuring every decision is built on a bedrock of accuracy, strategy, and trust.

What You'll Do:

Strategic Advisory & Business Partnering

• Strategic Business Partner: Manage the P&L for your business units and provide rigorous financial advice, contextualized by company strategies, to executive leadership.
• Strategic Opinions: Go beyond reporting to provide proactive opinions on business strategy and perform ad hoc finance and business case analyses for stakeholders.
• Business Support & Communication: Develop and maintain detailed budget and forecast models, communicating results and insights effectively to all stakeholders.

Financial Rigor & Reporting

• Variance Analysis & Action Planning: Provide P&L owners and Business Partners with budget-to-actual analysis and support managers in the development of concrete action plans to improve variances.
• Executive Reporting: Develop and prepare KPI and financial reports for distribution to senior management, including the preparation of financial package presentation materials.
• P&L Integrity: Ensure the foundational accuracy of your P&L, including month-end accrual and billing accuracy.
• Headcount Management: Manage personnel costs—often the largest P&L driver—by tracking and forecasting both FTEs and contractors to ensure alignment with operational plans.

Systems, Standardization & AI

• Systems Architecture: Build models, create dashboards, and generate reports within the FP&A reporting system, using several different systems such as Adaptive, Excel, and Gsheets.
• Process Improvement: Identify and lead process improvement projects that result in enhanced internal/external reporting and forecasting, with a relentless drive towards improving forecast accuracy.
• AI-Forward Efficiency: Actively leverage AI tools to accelerate data cleaning, audit formulas, and streamline documentation, reclaiming time for deeper analysis.
• File & Data Hygiene: Maintain a gold standard for organization, including logical model flows, intuitive file naming, and clear folder structures that ensure work is documented and scalable.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience: 5+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally in a marketplace, SaaS, or high-growth tech environment.
• Modeling & Rigor: Expert-level ability to build driver-based (PxQ) models. You are naturally disciplined and believe that file structure and naming conventions are a reflection of analytical quality.
• Resourceful Learner: You are a naturally curious problem-solver who enjoys learning new systems and data structures. You take the initiative to find answers and develop compelling data insights independently.
• Detail Obsession: You have the persistence to dig into GL-level discrepancies and the patience to organize "messy" data into clean, repeatable frameworks.
• Professional Judgment: Proven ability to operate with high autonomy while possessing the judgment to proactively loop in management on medium-to-high impact decisions.
• Technical Prowess: Advanced Excel is required. Proficiency with Google Sheets and experience with Adaptive (or similar financial planning tools) is strongly preferred. Familiarity with Oracle, Snowflake, SQL, or Power BI is a plus.
• Modern Mindset: Tech-curious early adopter of AI productivity tools with a passion for automating repetitive tasks.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.