Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst is a strategic, results-oriented, business leader responsible for timely, relevant, and accurate financial performance reporting. This individual will perform business, financial, and operational analysis to impact top-line and bottom-line results and to support senior management decision making. Daily tasks will include updating monthly reports and tracking performance against projections.

What you’ll do:

• Update financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
• Prepare and maintain regular financial planning and tracking reports: weekly utilization, weekly revenue tracking, profitability, additional ad hoc reports as necessary
• Improves financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management
• Provide excellent customer service to all employees, clients, and vendors
• Work closely with Client teams by being their strategic financial business partner in properly developing, reviewing, and evaluating scopes of work, and pricing staff plans for Client engagements
• Support New Business pitches including developing remuneration proposals
• Analyze and track key KPIs across the business, including client profitability and staff utilization
• Seek and implement ways to improve, streamline, and automate processes

What you’re like:

• Team player, flexible and always willing to switch from project to project and help other team members
• Highly skilled, self-starter, confident in your abilities; not afraid to share opinions or new perspectives in the pursuit of excellence
• Strategic thinker, intrinsically curious about each task with a positive attitude in all that you do
• Able to collaborate effectively at all levels and functions with executive team members, clients, and other business stakeholders to ensure the integrity of company standards and operations
• Solution-oriented with an impeccable eye for detail
• Strong propensity for client-service
• Sound business acumen; strategic skills; common sense 

What you’ve got:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably with a quantitative orientation such as finance, accounting, or economics; ideally, have or be working toward an MBA
• 2+ years of financial analysis experience, preferably in an Advertising/Marketing company or other ‘billable hours’ environment
• Experience in developing financial projections, budgets, and resource planning for a dynamic business
• Expert proficiency in Excel including pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas, charts, etc. and common sense about which Excel format to use for optimal results
• Microsoft AX and Cognos experience preferred
• Excellent communication skills; including strong presentation skills
• Proven record of success working within tight deadlines across multiple projects and deliverables
• Excellent project management abilities

Our hybrid work model:

KERN's current hybrid model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while also supporting flexibility for all employees. As such, we have the option to work from home two days per week, and are required to be in-office a minimum of three days per week.

Wondering what we're like? At, KERN we are:

KERN as an organization has always focused on our people, our community, and the clients we serve. For more than 20 years, we have been driven by these core values:

• Be Kind: We understand that our clients and our employees all have unique experiences that have shaped them and we are committed to understanding one another. We work every day to create a space in which we recognize each other’s humanity, and which is inclusive and grounded in empathy.
• Be Smart: We know that the best and brightest ideas come from hearing and incorporating a diversity of voice and this is what elevates our work. When our teams come together, we amplify individual strengths to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.
• Be Creative: We think in unexpected and diverse ways. This requires a range of opinions and backgrounds. We believe in pushing boundaries, reimagining the customer experience through insightful work, and measuring success with precision analytics. 

The annual base salary range for this position is $85,000.00 - $122,400.00. Exactly where a prospective employee will be paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, the actual salary ranges for current and former employees who are either currently filling a similar role or did in the past; the candidate’s depth of experience and qualifications; the level of specialization the role requires; budgetary considerations; the market demand for that role and the local market conditions that exist where the employee will be based.