Sr. Analyst, Financial (Future Opportunity)

Alaska Communications; Colorado; On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A telecommunications company is seeking a Senior Analyst in Finance to support strategy through financial analysis. In this role, you will translate data into actionable insights, deliver complex reports, and manage financial models impacting the organization's success. This full-time position requires a Bachelor’s degree and four years of relevant experience. Expected skills include advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong analytical capabilities. Join us in making a difference through technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Four years of experience in financial analysis.
• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.

Responsibilities

• Translate data into information critical for strategy development.
• Deliver complex analyses for executive management.
• Construct and maintain sophisticated financial models.

Skills

Detail Oriented

Financial Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Accountability

Technical Aptitude

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

SQL

BI Tools/Software

Job description

Sr. Analyst, Financial (Future Opportunity)

Alaska Communications is seeking a Senior Analyst in Finance to translate data into information critical for strategy development, execution, and problem resolution. This future opportunity will involve gathering information from multiple internal and external sources, developing spreadsheets and financial models, performing ad‑hoc analysis, and preparing reports and presentations.

Remote International Applicants and Work Visa Sponsorship: This position does not support remote international applicants or routinely sponsor work visas.

Continuing Posting / Future Opportunity: This is a future opportunity. Applications will be actively reviewed for current and future openings and will be filled as vacancies become available. While you may not be contacted immediately, we welcome your interest and look forward to connecting as openings arise.

Position Summary

Translate data into information critical for strategy development and execution and problem resolution by gathering information from multiple internal and external sources; developing spreadsheets and other supporting data; completing analyses, writing reports, and preparing presentations. Translate raw data into information critical for decision support and operations management. Gather information from multiple internal and external sources, develop standard financial models for analysis and reporting, perform ad‑hoc analysis, financial presentations, and business intelligence development to support all areas of financial planning.

Job Duties

• Work largely on projects with substantial complexity, breadth of scope, and impact to the organization. Deliver analyses that lead to understanding of complex issues and are critical to strategy development, execution, and problem resolution. Serve as a resource for standard and specialized subject matter expertise.
• Collect data on actual financial performance, compare to budgeted performance, analyze variances, and prepare periodic reports for executive management.
• Participate in the ongoing analysis and maintenance of financial systems; assist with system upgrades and conversions to modern business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Construct and maintain sophisticated financial models in support of the operating and capital budget development and reporting processes for example the P&L, Long‑Term, Cash Flow, and Balance Sheet modeling.
• Compile data submitted by managers and compare to budget targets set by executive management. Identify variances and submit for review by executive management. Assist in development of value‑add KPI’s.
• Serve as a resource for internal customers by researching and answering capital and operating budget questions.
• Perform complex financial analysis associated with special projects, to include pre‑acquisition analyses, acquisitions, business cases, and refinancing.
• Assist in developing short and long‑term IT plans and forecasts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Detail Oriented – proficient at detailed documentation of financial processes, changes, modeling assumptions, maintain version control.
• Financial Management – highly knowledgeable in standard financial metrics, models, and presentation creation, maintenance, and interpretation. Can use these skills to develop decision support and value‑add KPI’s for executive level management.
• Communication Skills – excellent oral and written communication, frequent preparation and delivery of detailed plans and proposals, strong interpersonal skills, collaboration, coordination, and conflict management.
• Analytical Skills – ability to gather raw data, process that data into a meaningful form, and translate for a wide audience in a concise manner.
• Accountability – ability to plan, organize, measure and coordinate multiple tasks to deliver the budget and subsequent analysis for P&L under standard financial deadlines.
• Technical Aptitude – ability to quickly learn as a self‑starter under minimal supervision, use complex systems and applications (SQL, BI Tools/Software, data mining).

Education Required

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, business administration, or related field. Equivalent education, experience and training may be substituted for the degree requirement on a year‑for‑year basis.

Experience Required

Four years of progressively responsible professional‑level financial analysis experience. Equivalent education and training may be substituted for experience.

Computer Skills

Demonstrated proficiency working with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. Expert‑level proficiency in Microsoft Excel required and mid‑expert level proficiency in BI Tools/Visualization techniques. SQL and other data mining techniques preferred.

Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type: Full‑time

Job Function: Finance and Sales (Telecommunications industry)

We hope you’ll join us as we change lives through technology.