Senior Financial Analyst (Chicago)

Senior Financial Analyst

A fast-growing, highly-acquisitive company in the energy sector located in downtown Chicago with 30 acquisitions in the past 15 years is looking for a new SFA!

Duties and responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, variance analysis and trend analysis
• Partner with Operations and use KPIs to drive financial performance
• Present financials to the board and investors
• Work alongside treasury to define cash demands
• Lead the annual budgeting process
• Aggregate investor financial performance data
• Provide support for acquisition target analysis, including: creating financial models, discounted cash flows (DCF) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) calculations
• Evaluating purchase price and deal funding structure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or similar
• 3 to 10 years of experience in Finance or Accounting
• Excel Modelling skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Proficiency in enterprise BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) with a proven track record of constructing complex measures, dynamic dashboards, and using data transformation tools (e.g., Power Query) to prepare data for analysis
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Microsoft Fabric) is a plus.