Senior Finance Analyst - FP&A

Benefits and culture

Based in Chicago, IL with a hybrid work model, ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, financial security, time away, and ongoing professional development. You will join a deeply collaborative, globally connected culture that prioritizes continuous learning, broad internal mobility, and cross-functional teamwork. Flexible work arrangements and a strong emphasis on skills-building, career progression, and a supportive community help you do meaningful work while expanding your capabilities.

How you’ll grow

You will have access to cross-functional skills development and customized learning pathways, with milestone training programs aligned to clear career progression. Internal mobility opportunities empower you to broaden responsibilities and explore new challenges across roles and regions.

Responsibilities

• Design business intelligence dashboards and self-service reporting to support leadership and internal finance teams
• Support senior leaders across analysis, issue identification, and strategic initiatives
• Collaborate with internal finance teams and business stakeholders to execute our finance data strategy
• Prepare analysis and presentations for key meetings – Board of Directors, Management Committee, Principals Meetings, Regional Leadership Meetings
• Pro-actively identify key trends within the business and initiate actions to improve company performance and support ongoing growth and expansion
• Support ad-hoc modeling projects for senior leadership
• Coordinate with internal finance and IT teams on finance system process improvements, overseeing project activities to ensure successful implementation and timely completion
• Act as a functional expert in project and data management, serving as a liaison between teams to ensure all requirements are effectively communicated, translated, and addressed throughout the project lifecycle

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Finance or other quantitative field required, advanced degree welcomed
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in financial analysis supporting internal business units or stakeholders
• Experience building financial models with Excel
• Proficiency in business intelligence data modeling and dashboarding using Power BI, Tableau or similar
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Ability to think strategically and commercially and a willingness to dive down into the details
• Ability to work closely with senior leaders while retaining objective and professional finance perspective
• Judgment to know when to challenge something and when to lend support
• High motivation, strong work ethic and personal initiative
• Fluency in English
• Client-first mentality
• Intense work ethic
• Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach

Technologies

• Excel
• Power BI
• Tableau

Hybrid working model

ZS supports a flexible and connected working approach that blends work from home with on-site collaboration at client sites or ZS offices for the majority of the week. This arrangement fosters the culture of innovation and teamwork in both planned and spontaneous interactions.

Travel

Travel is required for client-facing work. While some projects may be local, you should be prepared to travel as needed to strengthen client relationships and gain diverse experiences across environments and cultures.