Financial Analyst (FP&A OPEX)
The Company
Cover Genius is a Series D insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.
Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are
Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not
Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
About the Role
As a Financial Analyst on our FP&A Finance Team, you will own a critical role in optimizing operational processes, providing decision support, and enhancing financial performance as a Financial Analyst, with key objectives including regional budgeting, financial reporting, and strategic planning support.
To drive success in this role, you will have proven analytical and problem-solving skills, strong interpersonal and communication abilities, familiarity data analysis, knowledge of financial systems (such as Adaptive or NetSuite), and a track record of success in managing stakeholders, preferably in a startup/growth company environment. As the Financial Analyst you will play a pivotal role in optimizing operational processes, driving efficiency, and enhancing overall financial performance. Regular collaboration with the broader finance team and department leaders will be key in ensuring the finance team is able to support the business in achievement of the company goals.
What will your day look like? You will...
- Support the regional budgeting and planning for functional spend, such as headcount, opex, and capex for various departments across the company
- Provide decision support for headcount and third-party contractor budgets
- Build and maintain key financial reports, institute tools to track performance of key financial indicators
- Prepare and analyze monthly and quarterly reporting by function for each division across Americas, EMEA and APAC
- Support the finance and business teams with crucial financial metrics and key business analysis
- Play a central role in the coordination of our FP&A processes
- Prepare executive-grade financial reporting, summarizing findings and recommendations
- Leverage financial systems to institute and automate weekly/monthly reports
- Partner effectively with the accounting team to assist in the close process by owning allocations of key financials
- Assist in the quarterly and annual strategic planning process
- Assist in the execution of company wide FP&A related initiatives.
To help us level up, you'll ideally have:
- 2 or more years in financial analysis and planning
- Knowledge of financial systems (Adaptive, Netsuite, or similar)Ability to understand and articulate cost drivers, as well as potential saving initiatives.
- Strong financial analysis skills with ability to zoom in and out from the details, with a good holistic view to identify and summarize the key takeaways.
- Experience in working in a startup/growth company, preferably in an international environment.
- A Bachelor's degree in Finance or a related field is preferred
- Prior experience working with SQL and mining large data sets, interest in coding/ automation preferred
To be successful, you'll bring:
- Strong team player with excellent communication skills; accustomed to interacting with people at all levels, with a positive attitude and energy.
- Proven experience in managing stakeholders in a complex organization involving change management.
- Self-starter/autonomous and pro-active
- Problem-solving ability, capable of working independently and collaboratively as part of a larger team.
- Initiative and ability to thrive in a fast-paced organization, often under tight deadlines.
Why Cover Genius?
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
• Flexible PTO. Taking time out is important for our teams to enjoy life and stay fresh.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!
* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
*The salary range for this role in NYC is between $66,500and $89,500. All roles are eligible to receive equity.