[Hiring] Financial Analyst @CertiK

Role Description

We are looking for a highly proactive, detail-oriented Financial Analyst with 1-2 years of professional experience to join our fast-paced finance team. In this role, you will be the backbone of the finance team, taking ownership of essential record maintenance, high-volume data scrubbing, and detailed reconciliations. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven professional to build upon their foundational skill set in corporate finance and accounting while supporting complex month-end close processes, strategic financial analysis, and workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Data Maintenance & Record Keeping: Maintain, scrub, and organize large sets of financial records, ensuring absolute data integrity across ledgers and reporting systems.
• Reconciliations & Variance Investigation: Perform detailed weekly and monthly reconciliations (e.g., bank, revenue, crypto balance), including the rigorous investigation of variances and discrepancies.
• Pre/Post-close Preparation & Support: Assist the accounting team by organizing, reviewing, and cleaning up pre-close items, ensuring financial data is accurately prepared for the month-end close process.
• Analysis & Modeling: Assist with financial modeling, perform profitability analysis, and provide support in building and maintaining budget models and forecasting processes.
• Process Improvement & Automation: Streamline financial reporting workflows and routine reconciliation tasks by leveraging automation tools and scripts (e.g., Python, SQL, Google Apps Script, or advanced Excel macros).
• Proactive Task Management: Actively identify process gaps, discrepancies, or operational inefficiencies, and independently initiate and complete tasks to resolve them.
• Ad Hoc Tasks: Execute ad hoc tasks from senior management, investors, and other external sources.
• Audit & Tax Support: Provide assistance to YE audit and tax reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field, with 1-2 years of relevant professional experience.
• Solid foundational understanding of accounting principles (e.g., GAAP, double-entry bookkeeping, accruals).
• Minimum GPA of 3.6.
• Proficient with Excel with a strong emphasis on data manipulation and demonstrated hands-on experience in financial process automation.
• Highly detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills—must be comfortable diving deep into the data to find and fix discrepancies.
• Self-motivated and proactive: proven ability to independently identify tasks, take ownership, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision.
• Strong organization, time management, and ability to meet strict reporting deadlines.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Team player with a positive attitude, ready to tackle new operational challenges.

Requirements

• Target annual salary for this role performed in the US is $70,000 - $90,000.
• The exact compensation at which this job is filled will be determined by the skills and experience of qualified candidates.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• HSA (with high deductible plan) and FSA.
• Flexible paid time off and holidays.
• Variable commission program for business development sales roles.