Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Reporting

Lifestyle Communities; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifestyle Communities is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Reporting to join the Finance & Accounting team in Columbus, OH. The role focuses on corporate consolidation and high-quality financial reporting for internal stakeholders and external auditors.

You will lead GAAP-based month-end close, oversee intercompany reconciliations, analyze key accounts, and communicate results to business partners.

Qualifications

• Requires strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and financial reporting.
• Experience with month-end close processes and financial statement preparation.
• Ability to communicate financial results to stakeholders clearly.
• Experience with consolidation processes and intercompany accounting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of internal controls and accounting policies.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality financial statements and schedules for reporting.
• Maintain consolidation accounting processes and policies.
• Drive monthly close activities from journal entries to statement explanations.
• Ensure accuracy of reports for external investors/banks/auditors.
• Prepare intercompany reconciliations and key account analyses.
• Stay current on accounting principles and market trends.
• Collaborate with other accounting teams across the organization.
• Manage reporting software to generate data for business decisions.
• Support tax planning and compliance where needed.
• Contribute to best-in-class principles and future growth initiatives.
• Perform other projects as directed by Leadership Team.

Skills

GAAP reporting

Consolidation

Public company experience

Intercompany reconciliations

Journal entries / close

Analytical skills

Internal controls

Planning/Hyperion/SAP/Workday

Education

CPA certification preferred

Tools

Planful

Hyperion

SAP

Workday

Job description

Job Description:

• Job Title Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Reporting

• Company LC Advisory Services

• Department Finance & Accounting

• Reports To Manager, Financial Reporting

• Wage Category Exempt

Who We Are

At Lifestyle Communities (LC), we take deliberate action every day to nurture a culture grounded in our purpose — to Build a Connection™. Whether you’re behind the bar, in the kitchen, or on the floor, your work helps create spaces where people come together, connect, and belong.

We are guided by our core values — Performance, Quality, Communication, Teamwork, and Leadership — and fueled by our commitment to excellence. At LC, you’ll find your “why,” your place to belong, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact.

The Team You Will Join

We count on accounting and finance to deliver far more than just the numbers. Lifestyle Communities’ (LC) Finance team helps us realize our goals and achieve our ambitions by identifying and capitalizing on opportunities to drive value. You’ll join a dynamic team committed to elevating the company through product innovation, process improvement, and margin and profitability enhancement. You will strategize, forecast, analyze, audit, research and lead important decisions.

Who You Are

As the Senior Reporting Analyst, you will be responsible for performing a variety of accounting, finance, and analytical functions as part of the company’s corporate consolidation and reporting team. This role will be accountable to the Company’s stakeholders by providing high-quality financial reporting, as well as operational accounting and finance support on Company transactions. To be successful in this role, you will have to rely on a strong technical skillset to manage the preparation of Company consolidated financial statements and effectively communicate financial results to business partners and other users of the financial statements. This role will partner with multiple accounting teams across the organization. In alignment with the brand strategy of reinforcing the core values of the Company, this role is focused on delivering key metrics and strategic analysis while supporting the designated business units.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Apply a thorough knowledge of U.S. GAAP and financial reporting skills to produce high-quality, accurate, timely financial statements and schedules for reporting purposes.

• Maintain consolidation accounting processes and policies, controls over financial reporting, preparing and/or reviewing financial reports.

• Drive monthly financial close processes in accordance with GAAP, from journal entries through review/explanation of financial statements.

• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of all reports, presentations, and data provided to external investors/banks/auditors.

• Prepare reconciliations of intercompany balances for which financial reporting is required.

• Prepare monthly financial analysis of key accounts as requested.

• Maintain and update knowledge on Accounting Principles and market trends.

• Understand business unit methods, and make decisions as it relates to the accounting department.

• Manage reporting software and utilize software to produce required data and metrics needed for business analysis/decision making.

• Assist with tax planning and compliance.

• Influence idea generation for Best-in-Class principles and utilizes strategic development for future business needs/growth.

• Complete other projects as directed and assigned by Leadership Team.

What You’ll Bring:

• Work requires the ability to align and to embrace our Core Values: Performance, Communication, Leadership, Quality, Teamwork.

• CPA certification preferred.

• 3-5 combined years of public accounting and/or industry experience (public company preferred)

• Sound technical accounting and reporting acumen, problem solving and analytical skills.

• Understanding of internal control concepts.

• Experience with consolidation tools (Planful, Hyperion, SAP, Workday).

• Strong organizational skills and the demonstrated ability to manage numerous projects/deliverables simultaneously against set deadlines.

• Energetic, can-do attitude, forward-thinking leader a