Senior Financial Analyst

GCI is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to deliver high-quality financial analysis, planning, and reporting that supports effective decision-making. This onsite role in the United States partners with business stakeholders and finance leadership to produce accurate forecasts, performance insights, and financial governance while continuously improving Finance processes and tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development of annual and multi-year plans.
• Build and maintain detailed budgets while ensuring data accuracy.
• Ensure planning alignment with group guidance, assumptions, and timelines.
• Prepare rolling forecasts and outlooks.
• Analyze key drivers, risks, and opportunities, and maintain consistency between actuals, forecasts, and plans.
• Partner with finance stakeholders to support planning and forecasting for assigned business areas.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to validate assumptions, reconcile variances, and address data or assumption gaps.
• Own the full planning and forecasting cycle for designated business areas.
• Shape planning discussions by challenging assumptions and providing scenario-based insights.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment of assumptions across Finance, Accounting, and business teams.
• Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, processes, and automation.
• Build, maintain, and enhance financial and driver-based models, sharing analysis with stakeholders.
• Perform sensitivity, scenario, and ad-hoc analysis to support planning and decision-making, including business cases and investment appraisals.
• Gather data, validate accuracy, and support analytical needs for business partners.
• Translate analysis into synthesized, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Lead financial evaluations of business cases, investments, and operational decisions.
• Perform timely and accurate monthly and quarterly reporting, including variance analysis versus plan and forecast.
• Develop clear variance narratives and performance insights, including analysis of revenue, COGS, and Opex trends.
• Identify key performance drivers and improvement levers and compile performance metrics for internal finance consumption.
• Collaborate with Accounting to ensure alignment between actuals, forecasts, and management reporting, and support enterprise-wide financial consistency.
• Identify and escalate financial risks, data issues, or misaligned assumptions; provide recommended solutions when needed.
• Support process documentation and identify incremental improvements to reporting, modeling, and planning processes.
• Drive continuous improvement across finance tools, processes, reporting frameworks, and data quality.
• Lead automation, workflow redesign, and adoption of AI tools to increase speed, insight depth, and forecasting precision.
• Communicate financial information clearly to finance and non-finance audiences and prepare presentations for senior executives and management.
• Follow internal controls, protect confidential information, and abide by GCI’s Code of Business Conduct & Ethics.

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Economics, or a relevant field.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, finance, or a related background, including at least two (2) years of financial modeling experience.
• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of accounting procedures and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and their application in financial modeling and analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including complex formulas, dynamic charts, macros, and automation to improve reporting and model development.

Technologies

• MS Office, Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel
• Oracle
• AI tools

Working Conditions and Additional Requirements

• May require access to reliable transportation for occasional travel between retail store locations, offices, worksites, or other locations as needed.
• Work is primarily sedentary and requires daily computer use.
• Ability to work shifts as assigned in a standard office/home office setting and operate standard office equipment.
• Ability to accurately communicate information and ideas to others effectively.
• Ability to make valid judgments and decisions.
• Availability to work additional time on weekends, holidays, and before or after normal work hours when necessary.
• Ability to work well in a team environment with a diverse group of people and customers.
• Virtual workers must comply with remote work policies and agreements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance.
• CPA or CFA certifications.
• Knowledge of Oracle or an equivalent accounting system.
• Telecommunications experience.
• Relevant telecom industry or job-specific certifications.