Job Description
As an Analyst on our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you will provide high-quality decision support that drives our business performance. This is a wonderful opportunity to expand your FP&A skillset on financial and operational projects, with strong hands-on mentorship from our Vice President of Finance and Accounting, who is a direct report to the CEO. You will have the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule from your home office in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and on-site at our Administrative Office (HQ) in Irving (Las Colinas), TX.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze, evaluate, and develop store-level forecasting models and identify potential areas of opportunities and risks
- Perform variance analysis and present key findings and recommendations from monthly and annual forecasts to senior leadership
- Assist in the preparation and development of department budgets, forecasts, cash planning and other related reporting activities throughout the year
- Identify key drivers and trends of financial performance
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field
- 4+ years of finance experience (or 2+ years of FP&A experience with a Master’s degree)
- Advanced Excel skills (VBA, Pivots, Nested functions)
- Advanced SQL skills (Stored Procedures, Temp Tables, Aggregate Functions)
- Experience with Power BI or other visualization tools
- Demonstrated understanding on how to model the relationships between key metrics and financial statement outputs
- A passion for problem-solving and intellectual curiosity
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to extract and analyze raw data, draw conclusions, and make actionable recommendations
- Experience working on projects that involve collaboration with teams across the organization
- Ability to effectively manage priorities and projects
- Strong attention to detail
- Local (Dallas/Fort Worth area) candidates only – no relocation
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship and not require sponsorship in the future
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in business, finance, economics, accounting, or related field
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Compensation
- Starting annual salary up to $110,000
Workplace
- Flexibility of a hybrid work schedule, working remotely from your home office in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and on-site at our Administrative Office (HQ) in Irving (Las Colinas), TX
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Voluntary life/ AD&D
- Short-term & long-term disability
- 401K with company match
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid maternity, paternity, bereavement, extended medical leave, and jury duty
- Corporate discount program on “personal cell phone accounts” with select providers
- Corporate discount program on Microsoft 365 “Home Use Program”
- Casual dress code
- On-site fitness center
- On-site “grab-n-go” deli
About Cottonwood
Founded in 1996, Cottonwood Financial is one of the largest privately held retail consumer finance companies in the United States. With our customer-centric focus, we offer an innovative mix of financial products and services through our FinTech (online/digital) lending portal, Cashstore.com, as well as through our 230+ brick-and-mortar retail locations in multiple states, under our Cash Store brand.
We are positioned to grow, our locations are 100% company-owned (no franchises), and we have been named multiple times to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies, as well as to the Dallas 100 list of the fastest-growing private companies in North Texas.
Cottonwood Financial is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.