Sr. Financial Analyst

babelstreet; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Finance team in Reston, VA. You will own core FP&A processes, collaborating with the Director and Senior Manager to drive forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis across the business.

This is a highly visible role that interfaces with senior leadership and key stakeholders. You will build and maintain complex financial models, automate workflows, and contribute to long-range planning and strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of FP&A or analytical finance experience.
• Strong accounting knowledge, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Advanced financial modeling skills in Excel and data analysis.
• Ability to build and maintain complex models and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the weekly cash forecasting process with finance and accounting partners.
• Maintain the monthly rolling forecast and long-range financial model.
• Develop budgets and forecasts with department heads and analyze variances.
• Assist with annual budgeting and long-range planning.
• Deliver decision-ready analyses on performance, investments, and strategic initiatives.
• Support M&A activities including due diligence and modeling.
• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline FP&A workflows with data technologies.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Excel proficiency

Accounting knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Job description

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the world's most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. We deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empower s government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage . The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world . Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia , with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K. For more information, visit www. babelstreet.com .

Position Summary

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its high-performing Finance team and work closely with the Director, FP&A and Senior Manager, FP&A across forecasting, cash management, budgeting, financial reporting, operational analysis, and strategic decision support. This is a highly visible role with meaningful exposure to the Company's CFO and senior leadership, department heads, investors, and other key stakeholders. The right person will combine financial rigor, business judgment, technological fluency, and strong interpersonal instincts.

The Senior Financial Analyst will own key FP&A processes, including the weekly cash forecast, monthly rolling forecast, departmental budgeting and reporting, and ad hoc analysis supporting management decisions. The role will also contribute to annual budgeting, long-range planning, M&A analysis, and the continued modernization of Finance workflows through automation, AI-enabled tools, and better use of data.

What You'll Do

• Own the weekly cash forecasting process, partnering with Accounting and other stakeholders to understand expected cash inflows and outflows, identify potential liquidity issues, and improve forecast accuracy.
• Maintain and enhance the monthly rolling forecast and long-range financial model, ensuring assumptions are current, outputs are accurate, and key operational and financial drivers are clearly understood and communicated.
• Serve as a credible finance partner to department heads by developing and communicating budgets and forecasts, challenging assumptions constructively, investigating variances, and identifying practical opportunities to improve operating and spending decisions.
• Support the annual budgeting and long-range planning processes by collecting, analyzing, and consolidating revenue and expense inputs from departments.
• Quickly structure and deliver decision-ready analyses that evaluate business performance, investment opportunities, strategic initiatives, and other management questions, with clear conclusions, risks, and recommended actions.
• Support M&A activities, including financial due diligence, modeling, and analytics related to potential acquisitions.
• Continuously improve FP&A processes, reporting, models, data flows, and systems to increase speed, accuracy, control, and scalability; identify work that should be automated, standardized, simplified, or eliminated.
• Evaluate and leverage automation, AI-enabled tools, and emerging technologies to improve financial processes, accelerate analysis, and enhance decision-making.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand operational drivers, challenge assumptions constructively, and help translate financial insights into business action.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, Big 4 Advisory, consulting, or another highly analytical and business-facing role.
• Strong accounting and financial statement knowledge , including a clear understanding of the relationship between the P& L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.
• Advanced financial modeling and data-analysis skills with Excel , with the ability to build, audit, maintain, and improve complex models and reporting tools while analyzing large datasets efficiently and accurately.
• Strong understandin