GridPoint is a rapidly growing, private equity backed, technology leader with a mission focused on accelerating the world's transition to a sustainable future by creating an intelligent energy network of grid-interactive buildings. By transforming the way commercial businesses use energy, GridPoint unlocks the decarbonization, sustainability, and grid resiliency required for a cleaner, more efficient tomorrow. Our technology platform harnesses power and potential within a building to deliver energy, operational, and resiliency benefits. Networked together, GridPoint intelligent buildings provide reliable, precise, and instantaneous capacity for utilities and grid operators. GridPoint's growing network of commercial buildings spans across Fortune 500 enterprises, utilities, government organizations, and small businesses.
Job Summary:
GridPoint is seeking a Senior FP&A Analyst to join its growing finance team and company. You will have an opportunity to work closely with finance leadership and partner with the Director of FP&A to help maintain and improve financial and management reporting, budgeting/forecasting, and support strategic initiatives. GridPoint offers a very supportive environment that encourages process improvement, creative thinking, and professional development. You will work closely with finance leadership and across departments to produce information that helps inform decision making.
Primary responsibilities include maintaining financial and management reporting for senior leadership, developing budgets and forecasts, and building customer data analytics among other ad hoc projects.
Who You Are:
- Proven and experienced financial analyst with the ability to own and improve financial and management reporting
- Passionate about customer and financial data, key performance metrics, and bottom's up forecasting with a track record of delivering on time with high standards of quality and accuracy
- Desire to learn and grow within an expanding organization
- Thrives in a dynamic setting
- Fast learner, able to absorb information quickly and identify relationships between data
- Hyper-organized and extremely logical, but also a creative "outside the box" thinker
- Self-motivated and able to work independently and in close team environments
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Roll forward and update bottom's up monthly, multi-year budget and forecast model
- Produce and analyze weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial and management reporting for executive stakeholders and Board (e.g., Account reviews, SaaS KPIs/Metrics, P&L/BS/CF Variances, Recurring Revenue Trends, Customer and Site Count Trends, Bookings and Backlog, Head Count, and Cash Position/Outlook)
- Track weekly cash receipts by customer and disbursements by vendor. Develop weekly direct cash flow forecasts and working capital analysis (e.g., A/R Aging, Collections, A/P disbursements, Payroll), post finance purchase orders. Conduct cash flow variance analysis and reconciliations to bank balance
- Assist in developing robust customer financial and site count data for the organization
- Create and receive finance purchase orders for payment processing
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance and/or Accounting
- At least 3-5 years of experience as a financial analyst or staff accountant
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Enthusiastic about customer and financial data analysis, developing long-term processes, financial modelling, and forecast accuracy. Able to effect change and drive results through leadership, collaboration, and influence
- Strong organizational skills including the ability to effectively manage time, resources, and data from decentralized sources
- Self-motivated with focus on results and sense of urgency
- Familiarity with Salesforce and Great Plains (accounting system) preferred
GridPoint, Inc.
2801 Clarendon Blvd, Ste 100
Arlington
Virginia United States
www.gridpoint.com
