FP&A Analyst – Media & Events, NYC

Alliance Insurance Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

CyberRisk Alliance is seeking a Financial Analyst to join its FP&A team in New York City. This hands-on role supports forecasting, performance reporting, and business partnership across CRA’s media, events, communities, and related business lines.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of experience in FP&A or related roles and excels in Excel and modeling. Collaborating with Sales Ops, Revenue, and Operations, you will turn financial data into actionable insights while maintaining accountability for

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of FP&A, corporate finance, commercial finance, or related analytical role.
• Experience partnering directly with Sales, Revenue, Marketing, Events, Operations, or other commercial teams.
• Experience in media, events, advertising, business intelligence, demand generation, subscriptions, or another multi-product revenue environment strongly preferred.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Ability to connect financial outcomes to operational drivers and communicate the “why” behind performance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain assigned portions of the monthly forecast, incorporating actual results, approved business changes, known commitments, and updated operating assumptions.
• Analyze actual results against budget and forecast, investigate material variances, and document the operational drivers behind performance.
• Support annual budgeting and periodic reforecasting by preparing historical data, planning templates, assumptions, and consolidated department inputs.
• Maintain departmental P&L, headcount, and other supporting schedules used for forecasting and management reporting.
• Prepare scenario analyses to evaluate staffing changes, vendor decisions, investments, cost reductions, and other operating decisions.
• Serve as the FP&A partner for assigned budget owners, providing visibility into actual spend, remaining budget, forecast changes, and material financial risks.
• Meet with business partners regularly to review expected costs, staffing changes, projects, timing shifts, and other items that may affect financial performance.
• Track open financial commitments, forecast inputs, and follow-up actions, and escalates material risks or unresolved assumptions to FP&A leadership.
• Prepare recurring management reporting that summarizes financial performance, forecast outlook, significant variances, and items requiring management attention.
• Develop concise financial commentary explaining what changed, the underlying business driver, and the expected impact on future periods.
• Perform ad hoc financial analyses for FP&A leadership and business partners using established models, reporting standards, and validated assumptions.
• Support profitability and cost analysis for departments, events, initiatives, and business lines as needed.
• Maintain reporting mappings, planning assumptions, and control checks that support consistent FP&A reporting across systems and business units.
• Perform recurring reconciliations between financial systems, planning tools, and management reports to identify timing, classification, or mapping issues.
• Improve recurring FP&A models and workflows through stronger documentation, standardized inputs, controls, and appropriate automation.
• Support the implementation and ongoing use of FP&A, reporting, and AI-enabled tools as CRA’s finance infrastructure evolves

Skills

Excel

Financial modeling

Communication

Stakeholder management

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or another quantitative field

Tools

Salesforce

Sage Intacct

Abacum

Adaptive Planning

Anaplan

Planful

Power BI

SQL

Job description

CyberRisk Alliance is seeking a Financial Analyst to join its FP&A team in New York City. This hands-on role supports forecasting, performance reporting, and business partnership across CRA’s media, events, communities, and related business lines.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of experience in FP&A or related roles and excels in Excel and modeling. Collaborating with Sales Ops, Revenue, and Operations, you will turn financial data into actionable insights while maintaining accountability for