Financial Analyst (Temporary)

Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst is a key partner in achieving the Exploratorium's mission and vision by providing financial guidance, support, and analysis to senior management and multiple departments within the organization. This position's role is to be a strong detail-oriented individual contributor who understands museum operations and clearly communicates key findings to stakeholders across the organization. The Financial Analyst brings their interest in both details and big picture concepts to communicate financial performance compared to budget, short-term and long-term business performance in their areas of responsibility, and other financial analysis as needed. This position reports to the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis.

Essential Functions

• Prepare, consolidate and analyze financials for annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
• Work with Financial Analyst peers to prepare budget and forecast packages, including explanatory text, variance analysis, and presentation material
• Create financial models for specific high-visibility projects or scenarios to facilitate operational or strategic decision-making
• Review data at the cost center / project level, division / consolidated group level, and organization level; ensure integrity of the submitted data
• Improve financial outcomes by analyzing results, monitoring variances, and recommending actions to budget owners
• Prepare presentation-ready financial reports, charts, tables, written summaries, and other materials
• Assist budget owners in monitoring performance against budget, understanding reports and developing reporting
• Provide subject matter expertise of your responsible business lines and departments
• Research and resolve inquiries for assigned departments and / or functional areas
• Support personnel cost tracking and payroll variance analysis
• Assist in the development and maintenance of three five year business plan
• Build functionality and features into Workday Adaptive Planning (budget software) to maintain usefulness of reports and dashboards
• Manage special projects and other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirement

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position is open until filled