Financial Analyst

Hunter Hamilton; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A professional services firm based in Kansas City is seeking a Financial Analyst to manage budgets and corporate overhead spending. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in Excel, proven experience in analyzing corporate spending, and the ability to collaborate effectively with leadership. Key responsibilities include creating budget reports, managing invoices, and providing insights on spend trends. This role is critical to ensuring financial controls and governance across overhead functions.

Qualifications

• Proficient in advanced Excel functions for budgeting and reconciliations.
• Experience in managing and analyzing corporate overhead spend.
• Ability to partner with leaders from overhead functions.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage shared services budgets including tracking decisions.
• Build costing processes for rebilling expenses.
• Produce spend and budget reporting including actuals and forecasts.
• Review and allocate invoices ensuring policy alignment.
• Analyze spend trends to identify optimization opportunities.

Skills

Advanced Excel proficiency

Ownership mindset

Detail orientation

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or similar

Tools

Thomson Reuters 3E

Chrome River

Power BI

Job description

Our client is hiring a Financial Analyst to support corporate shared services / overhead functions with strong budgeting, cost tracking, and spend governance. This role is for someone who genuinely enjoys the details (the “blocking and tackling” of corporate overhead cost management) paired with the confidence to partner with leadership and keep processes tight.

What You’ll Do

• Own and support the creation and ongoing management of shared services budgets, including tracking decisions that impact next fiscal year planning.
• Build and maintain costing processes that enable rebilling of qualifying expenses to practices and/or client matters when applicable.
• Produce recurring spend and budget reporting (actuals, forecast, variance to budget, allocations, and cost breakdowns).
• Review, approve, and allocate invoices, ensuring alignment to contracted spend and internal policy.
• Partner with global/local finance stakeholders to standardize allocation methods and reporting categories.
• Analyze spend trends to identify optimization opportunities and provide clear, actionable insight.
• Develop and maintain financial controls, approval matrices, and governance for corporate overhead spend.
• Support project costing, projections, and ROI analysis as needed.
• Ensure cost management policies remain current and aligned with accounting/procurement standards.
• Collaborate with Procurement to strengthen Procure-to-Pay controls across corporate overheads.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to spend and controls.
• Take on ad hoc analysis and requests from senior leadership as needed.

What We’re Looking For (Must-Haves)

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or similar (preferred).
• Advanced Excel proficiency (this is critical): complex formulas/functions, heavy budgeting models, reconciliations, and detailed variance analysis.
• Demonstrated experience managing and analyzing corporate overhead / shared services spend (IT spend exposure is a plus).
• Experience partnering directly with leaders who run overhead functions (e.g., IT, HR, Facilities, Operations, Finance shared services)—not sales leadership.
• Strong ownership mindset: organized, disciplined, proactive, and comfortable working under deadlines.

Nice to Have

• Law firm environment exposure or familiarity with revenue cycles / matter structures (helpful, not required).
• Experience with Thomson Reuters 3E and/or Chrome River.
• Power BI/dashboard tools are a plus, but this role is Excel-first and detail-driven.

What Won’t Fit

To keep the search tight: we’re not targeting backgrounds rooted in legal practice, wealth management/investments, banking, sales/revenue modeling, or manufacturing, unless you can clearly show you were responsible for detailed overhead cost-base analysis and governance (not just high-level reporting).

Success Profile

• Detail-obsessed in a good way: you like reconciling, validating, and tightening models/processes.
• You can translate data into clear decisions for leadership.
• You’re service-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable influencing without authority.