Senior Financial Analyst at Buckingham Search Senior Financial Analyst at Buckingham Search in Berkeley, Illinois Posted in 15 days ago.

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full-time Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A Chicago, IL | Hybrid A rapidly growing, acquisition-focused energy services company is adding a Senior Financial Analyst to its finance team. The company has built a strong presence across the U.S. through a highly acquisitive growth strategy and continues to expand through both organic growth and M&A. This role sits at the intersection of FP&A, financial modeling, business performance, and M&A, giving you exposure to senior leadership, operations, investors, and acquisition activity. What you'll do Own and support monthly financial analysis, including budget-to-actual, prior-period, and trend analysis. Maintain and enhance recurring management reporting and financial performance packages. Partner with Operations to monitor key business metrics and identify trends and opportunities to improve performance. Support the preparation of board and investor materials, including financial presentations and analysis. Work closely with Treasury on the weekly cash forecasting process. Coordinate the annual budget process, gathering inputs from leadership and numerous operating locations and consolidating information into meaningful financial analysis. Prepare recurring and ad hoc investor and equity reporting. Maintain and improve financial forecasting models and tools. Develop an understanding of the company's key financial and value drivers. Support M&A and acquisition analysis, including: Building and maintaining financial models for potential transactions. Evaluating various deal structures and scenarios. Performing DCF and IRR analyses. Analyzing purchase price and transaction funding alternatives. Build, maintain, and improve Power BI dashboards and other financial reporting tools. Take on additional financial analysis and special projects as the business continues to grow. Travel periodically to operating locations and potential acquisition targets. What We're Looking For Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. Approximately 3-5 years of experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, or a related analytical role. Strong Excel skills and an interest in continuing to develop advanced modeling capabilities. Experience working with Power BI, Tableau, or another business intelligence platform. Ability to build dashboards, develop complex calculations/measures, and prepare data for analysis using tools such as Power Query. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a high level of attention to detail. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable working cross-functionally with Finance, Operations, Treasury, and senior leadership. Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Experience with cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks or Microsoft Fabric is a plus. Why This Role? Exposure to both FP&A and M&A rather than a traditional reporting-focused analyst role. Opportunity to work directly with senior leadership and investors. High visibility within a growing, acquisitive organization. Significant exposure to financial modeling, forecasting, valuation, and strategic analysis. Hybrid opportunity in downtown Chicago.