Financial Analyst

Consulting Advantage Corp; Ames (IA); Hybrid; USD 53,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Promotion ladder

Paid family leave

Mentors invested in your success

Job summary

Consulting Advantage Corp in Ames is seeking a junior Financial Analyst to join a collaborative finance team. You will contribute to monthly closings, review contracts and invoices, and prepare board-ready financial packages with clear executive summaries.

This role offers a hybrid schedule, a defined promotion ladder, paid family leave, and mentors invested in your success as you grow within the organization.

Qualifications

• Junior fluency in accountability with mentoring on your roadmap.
• Willingness to own new responsibilities.
• Experience in a hybrid team environment.
• Team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit.

Responsibilities

• Review contracts and invoices for accuracy before payment release.
• Close the books each month and ensure accuracy across all entries.
• Settle expense reports quickly and efficiently.
• Stand in for the Ames controller when close cannot wait; knit variance analysis pipelines into the close so data lands pre-validated.
• Prepare board-ready financial packages and executive summaries.
• Own grant compliance to ensure no restricted dollars.
• Assist with quarterly investor reporting and ongoing financial narratives.

Skills

Accountability

Mentoring

Hybrid teamwork

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Job description

What separates a good Financial Analyst from a great one is curiosity, and Consulting Advantage Corp is staffing for the latter in Ames. Match 1 years and Consolidations to this Ames job and you unlock $53,000 - $78,000, a hybrid schedule, and steady upward room.

Key Responsibilities

• Review contracts and invoices for accuracy before payment release
• Close the books each month and ensure accuracy across all entries
• Settle expense reports fast enough that nobody chases you twice
• Stand in for the Ames controller when close cannot waitKnit Variance Analysis pipelines into the close so data lands pre-validated
• Prepare board-ready financial packages and steady-handed executive summaries
• Own grant compliance so Consulting Advantage Corp never returns a restricted dollar
• Assist with quarterly investor reporting and endlessly-iterating financial narratives

What You'll Bring

• Junior fluency in Accountability, with Mentoring on your roadmap
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities
• Familiarity with the rhythms of a feedback-hungry hybrid team
• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit

You can trace a lot of IA's finance momentum back to a wildly-collaborative little team called Consulting Advantage Corp in Ames. We pair junior and senior folks on purpose so Workday Adaptive Planning knowledge stops hoarding in one head.

Joining us means $53,000 - $78,000, a clear promotion ladder, paid family leave, and mentors invested in your success.

Newly refreshed, this junior position in Ames welcomes applicants now.

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