Sr. Financial Analyst

Babel Street; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) retirement match

Unlimited paid leave

12 holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Finance team in Reston, VA, working closely with the Director, FP&A and Senior Manager, FP&A on forecasting, cash management, budgeting, and strategic analysis. You’ll modernize finance workflows with automation and AI-enabled tools while partnering across departments to drive action based on data.

The ideal candidate has a strong accounting and corporate finance foundation, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to communicate

Qualifications

• 3+ years of FP&A, corporate finance, or analytical finance roles.
• Strong accounting and financial statement knowledge including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Advanced financial modeling and data-analysis skills with Excel.

Responsibilities

• Own the weekly cash forecast and monthly rolling forecast.
• Develop budgets and forecasts with department heads; analyze variances.
• Support annual budgeting and long-range planning; consolidate inputs.
• Deliver decision-ready analyses with conclusions, risks, and actions.
• Support M&A due diligence, modeling, and analytics.
• Improve FP&A processes, automate workflows, and leverage AI-enabled tools.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate financial insights into business actions.
• Collaborate with CFO and senior leadership on strategic decisions.

Skills

FP&A experience

Financial modeling

Budgeting & forecasting

Accounting knowledge

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

BI tools

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.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in accounting and corporate finance, and is intellectually curious, business-minded, and eager to grow. Beyond strong analytical skills, this person is naturally inclined to understand how the business operates, ask thoughtful questions, and translate data into actionable recommendations. They are comfortable working independently, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and embrace technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve how work gets done. This individual combines strong financial acumen with sound judgment, effective communication, and a desire to take on increasing responsibility over time.

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 understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial planning processes.
• Hands‑on experience with ERP, financial planning, reporting, business intelligence, or data‑visualization systems, plus demonstrated ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Experience in a high-growth, recurring-revenue, SaaS, or PE-backed environment is strongly preferred.
• CPA, CFA, MBA, or relevant analytics or systems experience is a plus, but sound judgment, learning agility, and demonstrated impact matter more than credentials alone.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Business Curiosity: Interested in understanding how the company operates, not just how financial models work.
• Strong Judgment: Able to quickly identify what matters, make reasonable assumptions, and operate effectively with imperfect information.
• Technology Orientation: Naturally curious about automation, AI, data tools, and better ways of working.
• Social Intelligence: Builds trust easily, communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, and knows how to influence without creating friction.
• Ownership Mentality: Takes initiative, follows through, and is willing to step in where needed to help the team succeed.
• Speed and Adaptability: Learns quickly, works with urgency, and remains effective during demanding planning cycles, transactions, and critical deadlines.

Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...)

• Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family!
• Retirement Plans:Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.
• Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.
• Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.

Babel Street is anequalopportunity/affirmative actionemployer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration foret employmentwithout regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further,Babel Street will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co‑worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination .In addition, Babel Street's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request, we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.

$110,000 - $140,000 USD