Financial Analyst

Drivepoint; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a highly motivated Financial Analyst to join its dynamic team. This role involves collaborating with scaling consumer brands, providing strategic finance support, and working closely with founders and executives. The successful candidate will leverage their financial modeling expertise and strong communication skills to enhance client engagement and drive business success. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-growing startup that is transforming the finance landscape for consumer brands. Join a passionate team dedicated to unlocking profits and improving valuations for clients through insightful financial analysis and strategic guidance.

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages

Opportunities for growth and development

Flexible working environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or FP&A.
• Solid knowledge of financial statements including income, balance, and cash flow.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to modify financial models using Drivepoint software.
• Assist clients in creating budgets and forecasts to achieve business goals.

Skills

Financial Modeling

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Accounting Knowledge

Curiosity about Consumer Businesses

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Bachelor's degree in Economics

Job description

Drivepoint is the strategic finance partner for scaling consumer brands.

CEO’s and founders of e-Commerce brands use our platform to understand what’s happening in their business, analyze results and options, make decisions and put their plans into action.

Drivepoint centralizes financial software and strategic support so you can unlock profits hiding in your business. It’s built by seasoned strategic finance experts who are tired of the nonsense that gets in the way of understanding critical business metrics—and turning them into valuable insights.

Drivepoint is a game changer for consumer brands. By using the platform, they achieve profitability, faster, increase access to capital, and improve valuations. Customer feedback has been strong. Drivepoint is building an inbound pipeline through high quality content, and we are leveraging our growing social proof in outbound sales.

The Role

Drivepoint is seeking a highly motivated Financial Analyst to join our growing team. You will be working with a variety of scaling consumer brand clients, utilizing our software to provide strategic finance support. This highly-visible role offers opportunity to work with Founders, C-level executives, and other senior members from early stage and high-growth DTC companies. The successful candidate will have solid financial statement knowledge, financial modeling & analysis experience.

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to stand up and/or modify financial models using the Drivepoint software.
• Assist clients in creating budgets, forecasts, and scenario-planning to achieve their business goals (for example, analyze financial statement impact of increased advertising spend in certain months, reduce inventory to increase cash runway, etc.)
• Suggest and/or make improvements to the financial models, software, or data to ensure accuracy, drive automation, and encourage client adoption of Drivepoint offerings.
• Collaborate with other Drivepoint team members on various analyses and to improve our offerings & services to clients.

Requirements:

• Solid accounting and financial statement knowledge, including income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
• Financial modeling and analysis experience, including building models from scratch.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with clients and team members in a remote environment. Ability to explain financial analysis, including metrics and concepts, to clients in an easy-to-understand way.
• Strong interest or experience in direct-to-consumer or consumer goods, with an innate curiosity about consumer businesses.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, strategic finance, FP&A or a related field.
• We are based in Boston, but the role can be remote.
• We are venture backed having raised more than $8M from top-tier VC's
• This is an exciting opportunity to get in on the ground floor with an early stage, fast-growing start up in a hot space.

We offer competitive compensation packages, benefits, and opportunities for growth and development within the company.

The pay range for this role is:

115,000 - 140,000 USD per year (Boston, MA)