Principal Finance Analyst, Corporate Finance #1681

The Corporate Finance team is seeking a finance professional to provide financial and strategic insights to drive decision making and support all Corporate Finance processes, internal and external reporting as well as partnerships across the organization. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic organization in an impactful role which includes frequent interaction with leaders across the business.  We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in financial analysis, business planning, and reporting. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of accounting principles and demonstrate a strong ability to effectively communicate financial information to senior management. This highly visible role is 100% remote and reports to the Vice President, Corporate Finance. 

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:  

-Prepare, manage and review monthly Corporate reporting and forecasting processes as well as annual operating plan and long range planning cycles  

-Analyze drivers of financial performance and prepare financial metrics and financial performance reports to drive decision making 

-Act as a strategic partner to key stakeholders across the business, providing recommendations to enable decision-making 

-Provide regular and ongoing updates for senior leadership on status of the business and key performance drivers 

-Support CFO, Head of Investor Relations and other business leaders with ad-hoc requests  

-Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, automate and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies 

-Support preparation of Executive and Board presentations, progress monitoring, and monthly/quarterly financial close activities 

-Build and maintain infrastructure to forecast company balance sheet. Demonstrate deep functional based analysis of cash activity to forecast and calculate Non-GAAP free cash flow, and analyze working capital drivers to improve cash flow 

-Support Quarterly Earnings preparation process 

-Design and develop scalable and optimized Anaplan models for business operational needs and ad hoc analysis 

-Maintain Anaplan models including data integrations, calculations and reporting 

A successful candidate will possess sound strategic perspective, business judgment and a clear understanding of financial statements, with financial story-telling capabilities and a collaborative working style.  The ability to manage stakeholders through clear communication and cross-functional relationships is extremely important.  Additional success factors include demonstrating strong intellectual curiosity, a passion for achieving practical business impact, exceptional interpersonal skills, and integrity. 

• Candidates for this position will have 3+ years of progressive finance and experience. Exposure to SaaS business models is preferred. Candidates should also possess the following: 
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting.  Master’s degree is a bonus. 
• Strong analytical skills with proven proficiency in financial modelling and experience manipulating large data sets from various sources, interpreting data trends, and extracting business insights 
• Demonstrated experience in utilizing knowledge of accounting and forecasting concepts in developing financial projections with full sets of financial statements 
• The ability to listen actively and ask relevant, incisive questions as well as confident, independent thinking that communicates an analytic point-of-view to finance and business partners 
• Polished communications skills including an ability to understand complex matters and analyses, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present findings as well as recommendations in both oral and written presentations especially at exec level 
• Experience influencing, training, mentoring and leveraging one’s skills and others to achieve objectives in a cross-functional and matrix organizational environment 
• Solid working experience with tools like Anaplan and Netsuite 
• Customer focused mindset with the energy and desire to effectively collaborate and influence across a large organization; including working with all levels and with remote team members. 

MeridianLink has a wonderful culture where people value the work they do and appreciate each other for their contributions. We develop our employees so they can grow professionally by preferring to promote from within. We have an open-door policy with direct access to executives; we want to hear your ideas and what you think. Our company believes that to be productive in the long term, we must have a genuine work-life balance. We understand that employees have families and full lives outside of the office. To that end, we honor their personal commitments.

MeridianLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 

MeridianLink runs a comprehensive background check, credit check, and drug test as part of our offer process.

Salary range of $86,200-133,400. [It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range.] The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law including geographical location.

Meridianlink offers:

Stock options or other equity-based awards

Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)

Flexible paid time off

Paid holidays

401(k) plan with company match

Remote work

All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable and as may be amended, terminated, or superseded from time to time. 

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