FP&A Analyst

Join Guild, a mission-driven company focused on transforming education and career opportunities. As a Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst, you will play a critical role in financial planning, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic business partnering. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders, provide decision support for leadership, and identify new opportunities for process improvements. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including wellness resources, education benefits, equity stake in the company, and generous leave policies.

• Support forecasting and planning, financial reporting, company goal-setting, and strategic finance analyses.
• Own budgeting and forecasting components of Guild’s operating model, which we use to plan headcount, cash flow, and resource allocations.
• Prepare financial reporting, presentations and develop monthly close packages for our Board of Directors, investors, and senior management.

• Entrepreneurial. You are a self-starter with a roll-up-the-sleeves, action oriented mindset to have an impact in a fast-paced, rapidly changing growth environment
• Communication. You can distill and communicate complex topics broadly to board members, clients, front-line team members and everyone in between
• Team skills. You have a positive attitude with a can-do, service-oriented mentality. You are collaborative, with an ability to prioritize, negotiate, and build successful working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Something else? Wonderful, we’re curious to learn more about you!
• Precision. You have sharp attention to detail with a natural feel for numbers and data, and have a high degree of accuracy in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Technical skills. You’re an Excel expert with the ability to develop insightful and complex financial models and quantitative analysis, paired with critical thinking and sound business judgment
• Discipline. You have strong organizational and time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks with multiple stakeholders while hitting deadlines on time sensitive projects
• Passion. You are passionate about serving our students and an unrelenting drive to build an amazing business
• Experience. You have 2+ years of relevant work experience in a corporate finance function, investment banking, consulting, or private equity / growth equity. Preference for an undergraduate degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, etc.)
• Comfortable and confident presenting to senior leadership and executives
• Finance business partnership or previous FP&A experience
• Experience implementing and managing a cloud-based EPM like Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, Drivetrain, etc. strongly preferred