Senior Financial Analyst

About defi SOLUTIONS: It’s an exciting time to join defi! defi SOLUTIONS partners with captives, banks, credit unions, and finance companies of all types and sizes to allow lenders to focus and transform their operations.
The company’s comprehensive suite of originations, servicing, and analytics solutions together with technology-enabled processing services creates a flexible, configurable, and scalable platform that addresses lenders and borrowers ever-evolving needs.
defi SOLUTIONS combines the expertise of defi SOLUTIONS and the former Sagent Auto Lending with the backing of Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital Ventures and Fiserv.
Position Purpose: The Senior Financial Analyst will report to the Director of Finance and will be responsible for providing analytical support for pricing, planning and analysis activities related to defi’s products.
Key functions include performing analysis on financial performance and transaction data, performing key tasks related to close and forecast, as well as process improvement.
Essential functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Partner with and support the Sales team on all deal review activities (pricing for perspective deals and existing client renewals, create proformas to show margin analysis, etc.
) Work with cross-functional team on a detailed pricing analysis on existing products to help drive revenue growth, analysis and setup of future product/feature pricing and ad hoc pricing analysis as needed.
Key client and product level reporting and forecasting Perform strong trend analysis on recurring revenue streams (client revenues, transactions, revenue sharing) and non-recurring revenue streams (one-time events, fees).
Evaluate transactions and revenue performance to provide actionable insights and identify opportunities to grow revenue and profit through data mining, analytics, and automation.
Reviews revenue entries in the ledgers to assure accuracy and compliance with established accounting principles and procedures.
Monitor and establish internal financial controls to ensure proper compliance.
Partner with business segments to develop and drive in-depth financial analyses identifying key drivers, trends, variances, emerging risks, and opportunities; regularly communicating findings to senior management in succinct and meaningful reporting that impacts decision making.
Perform ad hoc analyses for operational and financial management.
**Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Required education and experience: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business related field.
4+ years of applicable accounting/finance and/or other related experience.
Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint (advanced skills).
General Ledger software experience is also required Preferred education and experience: Extensive experience in excel based financial modeling and financial planning and analysis.
Prior experience working in the software development and/or financial services industry is a plus.
Experience with Dynamics and/or Netsuite a plus Additional eligibility requirements: Strong organizational skills, in particular, an attention to detail and the ability to prepare reports in a timely and effective manner.
Ability to examine and verify financial documents and reports and skill in analyzing and interpreting financial data.
Ability to transform raw data (i.
e.
, transaction volumes) into meaningful and impactful revenue analysis.
Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with supervisors and personnel and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, business partners and company officials.
Ability to prepare business cases as needed to support a growing technology business.
Affirmative Action/EEO statement: defi SOLUTIONS is an Equal Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.