Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Centerline designs, builds, and maintains critical infrastructure across North America. The Senior Financial Analyst will own budgeting, forecasting, and variance management for corporate, wireline, and wireless segments, coordinating with functional leaders, the Data Consolidation team, and executive leadership. The role leads the annual budget cycle, monthly reforecasting, financial analysis, and board presentation support.

Responsibilities

• Own budget coordination and variance management
• Learn and apply the corporate budget methodology and templates, coordinating with the Controller on structure and cost center setup
• Validate that targets align with function-level capabilities, and brief all functions on submission requirements, process, and deadlines
• Coordinate budget submissions, validating allocations and assumptions for completeness and accuracy
• Identify outliers or inconsistencies in function submissions and resolve directly with function leaders as needed
• Support First Pass review by explaining function assumptions, and incorporate feedback and revisions from leadership
• Perform final QA of corporate data ahead of executive/board review
• Lead final sign-off and board presentation support
• Track variance on an ongoing basis, including managing benefits inflation, IT spending, and shared cost allocations
• Provide ongoing support to function leaders, answering questions and resolving allocation or data issues

Skills

• • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• • 3–5 years of experience in FP&A, financial planning, or budget/forecasting, ideally with exposure to corporate/shared-services cost allocation
• • Strong analytical skills with experience in variance analysis, forecasting, and cost allocation methodology
• • Proven ability to manage competing deadlines across multiple stakeholders and functional leaders
• • Comfort working with senior leadership, the Controller's office, and supporting board-level materials
• • Strong communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively with function leaders across HR, IT, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and other corporate groups
• • Advanced Excel/financial modeling proficiency; experience with budgeting or FP&A software a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• • 3–5 years of experience in FP&A, financial planning, or budget/forecasting, ideally with exposure to corporate/shared-services cost allocation
• • Strong analytical skills with experience in variance analysis, forecasting, and cost allocation methodology
• • Proven ability to manage competing deadlines across multiple stakeholders and functional leaders
• • Comfort working with senior leadership, the Controller's office, and supporting board-level materials
• • Strong communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively with function leaders across HR, IT, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and other corporate groups
• • Advanced Excel/financial modeling proficiency; experience with budgeting or FP&A software a plus

Benefits

• Professional advancement and support for your career journey
• Comprehensive insurance benefits — medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) plan
• Referral bonuses
• Generous PTO