Strategic Finance Analyst

Flexton Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexton Inc. in San Francisco/New York, USA seeks a Strategic Finance Analyst to develop complex financial models, manage accruals, and support headcount forecasting and master data management. The role collaborates with finance partners to ensure accurate planning, reporting, and data integrity.

Ideal candidates bring 4+ years of financial analysis, advanced Excel skills, and experience with ERP/master data systems to drive timely financial close and insightful business decisions.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
• 4+ years of financial analysis experience.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills.
• Hands-on experience with accruals, headcount forecasting or finance master data management, including data validation and reconciliation.
• Experience with financial planning, accounting or enterprise master data systems.

Responsibilities

• Complete complex financial modeling development, improvement, and maintenance.
• Execute accrual and reclassification processes, validate expense inputs and supporting documentation, and reconcile records to support an accurate and timely financial close.
• Support headcount forecasting and position management by maintaining planning inputs, tracking hiring, attrition and internal movements, and reconciling workforce data with finance partners.
• Analyze headcount and expense variances, identify discrepancies, and support forecast updates and financial planning consolidations.
• Process finance master data requests in Oracle EDM through standardized intake, completeness and accuracy checks, approved execution, verification, and confirmation to the requester; maintain a record of every change.
• Support validation and downstream-impact assessment for new departments, department name changes, and department hierarchy changes.
• Support maintenance of additional finance master data within assigned permissions, including product codes, legal entities, GL accounts, source members, etc.
• Audit and reconcile financial models, accrual records, headcount inputs and master data to identify and resolve accuracy issues.
• Partner with Strategic Finance, Accounting and system stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies and assess the impact of master data changes on planning and reporting.
• Establish and document repeatable processes, validation checks and controls for accruals, headcount forecasting and EDM execution.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting on financial results, headcount forecasts and master data request status.
• Provide strategic and ad hoc analysis to support key business decisions and evolving priorities
• Ensure reporting systems and source data are accurate and reconciled, with consistent cost center, department and ownership mappings.

Skills

Advanced Excel modeling

Headcount forecasting

Data validation

Reconciliation

Financial planning

Stakeholder management

Education

BA/BS in finance or accounting

Tools

Oracle EDM

Oracle EPM

Oracle EBS

Workday

Job description

Only W2

Role: Strategic Finance Analyst

Location: San Francisco/New York, USA

Responsibilities

• Complete complex financial modeling development, improvement, and maintenance
• Execute accrual and reclassification processes, validate expense inputs and supporting documentation, and reconcile records to support an accurate and timely financial close.
• Support headcount forecasting and position management by maintaining planning inputs, tracking hiring, attrition and internal movements, and reconciling workforce data with finance partners.
• Analyze headcount and expense variances, identify discrepancies, and support forecast updates and financial planning consolidations.
• Process finance master data requests in Oracle EDM through standardized intake, completeness and accuracy checks, approved execution, verification, and confirmation to the requester; maintain a record of every change.
• Support validation and downstream-impact assessment for new departments, department name changes, and department hierarchy changes.
• Support maintenance of additional finance master data within assigned permissions, including product codes, legal entities, GL accounts, source members, etc.
• Audit and reconcile financial models, accrual records, headcount inputs and master data to identify and resolve accuracy issues.
• Partner with Strategic Finance, Accounting and system stakeholders to resolve data discrepancies and assess the impact of master data changes on planning and reporting.
• Establish and document repeatable processes, validation checks and controls for accruals, headcount forecasting and EDM execution.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting on financial results, headcount forecasts and master data request status.
• Provide strategic and ad hoc analysis to support key business decisions and evolving priorities
• Ensure reporting systems and source data are accurate and reconciled, with consistent cost center, department and ownership mappings.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in finance, accounting, or related field
• 4+ years of financial analysis experience
• Advanced Excel modeling skills
• Hands-on experience with accruals, headcount forecasting or finance master data management, including data validation and reconciliation.
• Experience working with financial planning, accounting or enterprise master data systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM), including:
• Master data request validation, attribute maintenance and approved change execution.
• Cost center and department structures, ownership attributes and hierarchy mappings.
• Downstream-impact assessment, change verification and traceable change records.
• Finance dimensions and mappings supporting FP&A, budgeting and reporting.
• Experience supporting headcount forecasting, position management and workforce data reconciliation.
• Familiarity with Oracle EPM / EBS, Workday and related financial planning or accounting systems.
• Experience maintaining finance master data, resolving mapping discrepancies and supporting hierarchy changes.
• Strong understanding of accruals, expense timing, reclassifications and financial close processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience documenting finance processes, validation controls and master data change procedures; understanding of segregation of duties.

Suggested Skills

• Accruals & Financial Close