Choice Looking for Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Bellevue, WA Full Time

Are you ready to join an organization that’s investing in the team and technology to take the company (and you) to the next level?

As a fast-growing provider of payments technology and financial solutions, Choice has what it takes to get us there fast:

• Great foundation: Strong infrastructure of technology and support systems
• Amazing spirit: Customer-centric people and partners who are passionate about their work and accountable for executing with excellence.

Who We Are:

Choice Merchant Solutions is a fast-growing private equity backed fintech company that enables commerce with our technology. We facilitate payments for traditional brick-and-mortar business as well as provide the payments engine behind some of the fastest growing e-commerce and enterprise clients today. Our culture is both entrepreneurial as well as supportive. Our financial sponsor is one of the most prestigious Silicon Valley based growth equity firms and our mandate is to grow through M&A, exponential organic growth and through hiring the most talented people. We pay competitive salaries along with bonuses and full benefits.

Job Summary: Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis is a trusted finance partner to the leadership team. The primary objective of this position is to optimize the company’s financial results by proactively monitoring financial trends and key performance metrics and engaging in value-added analysis to facilitate decision making.

Job Duties:

• Lead as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for the business; establishing oneself as a single point of contact for all finance related matters.
• Assume ownership and manage all aspects of the annual and monthly planning, forecasting, and reporting processes for the business.
• Deliver comprehensive analysis of the financial results and key metrics of the leadership.
• Understand the impact of unusual items that skew the interpretation of the true financial performance relative to prior year, budget and forecasts.
• Investigate results that do not align with expectations and share insights on appropriate corrective action that will strengthen business performance.
• Create presentations for executive management that effectively communicates key messages and insights
• Develop financial models for ad-hoc projects that will support business decision making
• Continuously improve financial performance reporting by transforming data into actionable and value-added metrics and analysis that is packaged into an easily consumable format. Effectively leverage data sources to convey a full-color picture of performance.
• Proactively engage in business unit reviews encompassing competitive analysis, KPI assessments and SWOT analysis that will support strategic planning.
• Maintain and control management reporting data including uploading Budgets and Forecasts to core databases and producing and maintaining reports on a shared site.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, preferably in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of relevant, applied experience in finance/accounting, operations, strategy, or consulting
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence senior management
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture
• Demonstrated financial modeling and analytical skills required, experience developing financial reports and metrics.
• Advanced Excel knowledge required, strong Word and PowerPoint skills.
• Working knowledge of SQL and/or SAS preferred; knowledge of reporting and business intelligence tools preferred (e.g., Tableau).