Senior Financial Analyst, Books, Demand Finance

Key job responsibilities

• Develop long-term, annual, and quarterly financial forecasts across WW Programs, providing variance analyses and insights to senior Finance and business leadership
• Support end-to-end planning cycles (budget and multi-year forecast) including data gathering, financial modeling, and submission across topline, headcount, and operating expenses
• Build and maintain financial models ranging from new business opportunities to cash flow initiatives that inform investment decisions and long-term strategy
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packages including variance analysis, bridges, and operational commentary for senior leadership
• Partner with accounting teams to ensure ledger accuracy, support month-end close, and oversee reconciliations — knowledge of accounting principles is essential
• Lead revenue and expense deep dives, going beyond the numbers to communicate the "so what" and recommended actions
• Interface with stakeholders across product, operations, and business leadership to surface financial impact of business processes
• Support launch readiness for new initiatives with financial, tax, or compliance implications, and deliver ad hoc analyses for key business decisions
• Support tax and compliance reporting across multiple jurisdictions, providing data and reconciliations to internal tax teams and external auditors
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve financial processes to reduce manual dependencies and improve data integrity

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
• 4+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
• 3+ years of dissecting financial data and identifying patterns that support business strategy experience
• Bachelor's degree in BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
• MBA, or CPA
• Knowledge of Tableau
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)