Financial Analyst II - Corporate Planning

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.
• The role involves translating complex financial data into strategic narratives that drive corporate decision-making and operational efficiency.
• The corporate finance team manages high-throughput, cross-functional budget cycles while maintaining meticulous accuracy across workforce planning and corporate allocations.
• Success requires navigating ambiguous financial landscapes, designing dynamic projection models, and identifying process optimization opportunities to streamline reporting for senior leadership and the Board of Directors.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives)

• Manage the end-to-end budgeting process, including G&A expense modeling, corporate allocations, eliminations, and accuracy validation, ensuring all inputs align with corporate financial goals.
• Act as a financial storyteller for the enterprise, distilling monthly and quarterly variances into clear, actionable insights that empower the CFO and cross-functional leadership to drive strategic outcomes.
• Lead the preparation of high-impact presentations, including the annual budget deck for the Chairman, synthesizing complex financial narratives for senior leadership and Board review.
• Drive enterprise-wide workforce planning, providing rigorous modeling and analysis of headcount and personnel-related costs to support long-term projections.
• Architect dynamic financial models to track performance, identify trends, and deliver ad-hoc analyses that proactively guide leadership decisions across diverse business lines.
• Collaborate closely with Accounting to drive operational excellence, providing oversight on reclassifications and process integrations to ensure financial reporting is both accurate and efficient.
• Foster a culture of curiosity and adventure by applying an outside-the-box mindset to complex financial challenges, consistently seeking innovative ways to improve efficiency and data clarity to put EchoStar in a position to win.

Skills, Experience And Requirements

• Strong skills in advanced financial modeling, quantitative analysis, and interactive dashboard creation using Excel and Google Sheets.
• Exceptional collaboration and interpersonal skills to build productive cross-departmental relationships and influence strategic decision-making.
• Ability to resolve ambiguous business problems by systematically gathering data, interpreting complex trends, and delivering concise executive summaries.
• Proactive, growth-oriented mindset focused on challenging current processes to continuously improve operational efficiency and reporting quality.
• AI application literacy, with a demonstrated ability to utilize generative AI and data automation tools to streamline financial research and report production.
• Critical experience navigating high-speed, high-throughput environments with a high degree of organizational agility and attention to detail.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum Experience: 3 years of experience in corporate finance, budgeting, or financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
• Required Technical Skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling and Google Sheets formulas.
• Corporate allocations and G&A expense modeling.
• Preparing executive and Board-level financial presentations in PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Additional Qualifications

• Familiarity or experience with enterprise corporate financial reporting systems (e.g., Hyperion, OneStream).

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $63,150.00/Year - $90,000.00/Year

Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.