Senior Financial Analyst

Arizent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Arizent is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to be a strategic partner across Editorial, Sales, Technology, and Marketing. You’ll guide decisions through rigorous financial analysis, forecasting, and planning, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and drive growth.

Work closely with the SVP of FP&A to modernize the finance function, leveraging AI tools to automate routine work and uncover deeper insights for better strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or related field.
• 4–6 years of FP&A, corporate finance, or financial planning & analysis experience.
• Advanced Excel skills with financial modeling, PivotTables, lookups, data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own operating expense budgeting, forecasting, reporting, variance analysis, and month-end close for assigned areas.
• Partner with business leaders to manage budgets, evaluate spending, and provide financial guidance.
• Support annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes.

Skills

Advanced Excel

AI Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related field

Tools

Anaplan

Adaptive Planning

Pigment

Oracle EPM

Job description

Arizent is a business information company that empowers professional communities by providing insights, analysis, and opportunities to connect. With deep industry expertise and a data-driven platform, we deliver subscriptions, marketing services, live events, and access to Leaders, our executive forum. Our brands include trusted financial services publications such as American Banker, The Bond Buyer, Financial Planning, and National Mortgage News, as well as professional services brands like Accounting Today, Employee Benefit News, and Digital Insurance.

We are looking for creative thinkers with the skills and drive to help advance our vision. If you are interested in bringing 150 years of experience and reputation together with a start-up mentality, then we invite you to get to know us!

To learn more, visit www.arizent.com.

The Opportunity

This isn't a traditional FP&A role.

As our Senior Financial Analyst, you'll be a strategic partner to business leaders across Editorial, Sales, Technology, Marketing, and other corporate functions. You'll help guide key business decisions through thoughtful financial analysis, forecasting, and planning while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and drive growth.

Working directly with our SVP of Financial Planning & Analysis, you'll have significant visibility across the organization and play an important role in modernizing our finance function. We're looking for someone who embraces technology, including generative AI, to automate routine work, uncover deeper insights, and help Finance become an even stronger strategic partner to the business.

If you're energized by solving complex business problems, influencing decisions, and leveraging technology to work smarter, we'd love to meet you.

What You’ll Do

• Own operating expense budgeting, forecasting, reporting, variance analysis and month-end close for assigned business areas.
• Partner with business leaders to manage budgets, evaluate spending, and provide financial guidance.
• Support the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes.
• Maintain and enhance revenue reporting packages and develop an understanding of the company's revenue streams to support reporting and analysis.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reporting, dashboards, and executive presentations.
• Build and maintain practical financial models and perform ad hoc analyses to support business decisions.
• Partner with Accounting during the monthly close process to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Leverage AI tools such as Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot to improve financial analysis, reporting, and process efficiency, including experience with Claude plugins.

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 4–6 years of experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Financial Planning & Analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, PivotTables, lookup functions, and data analysis.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, operating expense management, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Ability to build and maintain practical financial models and reporting tools.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience using AI tools to improve productivity and financial workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting B2B media, digital publishing, advertising, or subscription-based businesses.
• Familiarity with subscription or recurring revenue reporting.
• Experience with FP&A planning systems (Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Oracle EPM, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to build AI prompts, automations, or workflows that improve finance processes and reporting.

Why Join Arizent?

At Arizent, we believe equal opportunity is more than a policy, it's a source of strength and innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every employee feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) play a key role in creating a supportive and enriching work environment.

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and growth. Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Disability and life insurance
• Paid vacation, sick, personal, and mental health days
• Parental leave and holiday pay
• 401(k) program
• Pretax transportation benefits
• Fitness reimbursement

Salary will be based on experience, skills, knowledge, and location. Applicants are encouraged to include salary expectations in their cover letter.

As an equal opportunity employer, we provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, height and weight, protected veteran status or any other protected status. This policy of equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment.