Senior Financial Analyst

Advantive Career Center; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantive Career Center in Tampa, FL seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to own expense forecasting, workforce planning, and non-operating expense analysis. You will partner with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A budgeting, support month-end close, and maintain forecasts in Adaptive.

This role grows toward full ownership of forecasting and reporting, offering high-impact exposure. The ideal candidate brings advanced Excel modeling, 5+ years in FP&A, and a business-minded approach to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting required.
• 5+ years in FP&A or corporate finance.
• Strong Excel modeling skills and data storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Own expense forecasts across workforce, vendors, and other non-operating expenses.
• Analyze expense data to identify savings opportunities and quantify impact.
• Maintain workforce planning model end-to-end, including headcount and compensation inputs.
• Build and maintain vendor and other non-operating expense forecasts with bottoms-up methodology.
• Support month-end close, variance analysis, and reporting to management and board.
• Develop and deliver internal and external FP&A reporting.

Skills

Expense forecasting

Workforce planning

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

FP&A

Excel advanced

Business partnering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Adaptive planning

Job description

Senior Financial Analyst

The Senior Financial Analyst reports to the Corporate Finance Manager and serves as the company’s expense subject-matter expert. In this role, you will own and maintain expense forecasts—spanning workforce planning, vendor spend, and other non-operating expenses—identify and quantify savings opportunities, and deliver clear, actionable insights that improve outcomes and support growth.

You will partner closely with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A business partnership, support other business partners across the organization with their expense needs, and play a central role in the monthly close and in maintaining forecasts within our financial planning platform (Adaptive). You will also support internal and external corporate reporting.

This role is designed to grow. You will begin by supporting the Corporate Finance Manager across these areas and progressively take full ownership of expense forecasting, workforce planning, and related reporting. It is a high-impact opportunity for an analytically strong, business-minded operator who brings rigor, curiosity, and a strategic lens to FP&A.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the company-wide expense subject-matter expert—the go‑to authority for business partners on expense methodology, budget challenge, and spend visibility—owning forecasts across workforce planning, vendor spend, and other non-operating expenses
• Proactively analyze expense data to identify and surface savings opportunities across the business, quantifying impact and partnering with stakeholders to drive realization
• Own the personnel model end-to-end, maintaining and continually improving the workforce planning forecast and ensuring headcount, compensation, and related inputs are accurate, current, and clearly visible
• Build and maintain vendor and other non-operating expense forecasts using detailed, bottoms‑up methodology
• Own and maintain financial proformas, ensuring models reflect current assumptions
• Partner with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A business partnership, and support other business partners with expense planning, analysis, and ad hoc requests
• Play a key role in the monthly close, including expense accruals, variance analysis, and clearly communicating drivers of performance versus budget and forecast
• Play an active role in the annual budgeting and reforecasting process, developing expense budgets and partnering with stakeholders to build and challenge their plans
• Maintain forecasts and model structure within Adaptive, ensuring data integrity across the planning platform
• Support the development and delivery of internal and external corporate reporting tailored to management and board-level needs
• Perform detailed variance analysis and translate results into clear, actionable narratives—explaining performance drivers versus budget and forecast—to support decision‑making at all levels
• Build and maintain financial models that support strategic decision‑making
• Extract actionable insights from imperfect or incomplete datasets using advanced Excel modeling techniques
• Gain exposure to three-statement modeling, cash and leverage forecasting, and proforma methodology, with the opportunity to contribute as the role expands
• Progress toward full ownership of expense forecasting, workforce planning, and related reporting over time
• Deliver high-quality outputs consistently in a fast-paced environment, managing time efficiently and maintaining productivity under pressure