Remote Finance & Operations Analyst – Forecasting & Insights

Blacksmith Agency; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency, a remote-first web design and development agency, is seeking a Finance and Operations Analyst to build real financial visibility, forecasting discipline, and decision support as we scale.

You will own internal financial systems, update forecasts, build dashboards, review variances, and prepare insights for leadership. You will not handle taxes; collaborate with our bookkeeper and CFO to ensure clean inputs and accurate reporting, enabling smarter spending decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with financial modeling and forecasting.
• Advanced Google Sheets or Excel capability.
• Experience analyzing P&L statements, cash flow, and margins.
• Ability to create scenario models and explain assumptions.
• Experience working with accounting software like QuickBooks or Xero.

Responsibilities

• Financial Modeling and Forecasting: maintain and update models across revenue, margins, cash flow, and EBITDA.
• Build and improve revenue, margin, cash flow, and EBITDA forecasts.
• Update assumptions weekly or monthly based on new sales and churn data.
• Run scenario models and present the impact to leadership.
• Track runway and financial safety thresholds across the business.
• Provide simple summaries that explain what happened and why.
• Identify margin erosion and propose fixes early.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Google Sheets

Excel

P&L analysis

Cash flow

Variance analysis

Data storytelling

Leadership communication

QuickBooks

Tools

QuickBooks

Xero

Salesforce

Looker Studio

JustWorks

Job description

Blacksmith Agency, a remote-first web design and development agency, is seeking a Finance and Operations Analyst to build real financial visibility, forecasting discipline, and decision support as we scale.

You will own internal financial systems, update forecasts, build dashboards, review variances, and prepare insights for leadership. You will not handle taxes; collaborate with our bookkeeper and CFO to ensure clean inputs and accurate reporting, enabling smarter spending decisions.