Sr. Financial Analyst

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the worlds most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. We deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched analysis-ready data regardless of language proactive risk identification 360-degree insights high-speed automation and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage. The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world. Babel Street is headquartered in Reston Virginia with regional offices in Boston MA and Cleveland OH and international offices in Australia Canada Israel Japan and the U.K. For more information visit .

Position Summary

Babel Street is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join its high-performing Finance team and work closely with the Director FP&A and Senior Manager FP&A across forecasting cash management budgeting financial reporting operational analysis and strategic decision support. This is a highly visible role with meaningful exposure to the Companys CFO and senior leadership department heads investors and other key stakeholders. The right person will combine financial rigor business judgment technological fluency and strong interpersonal instincts.

The Senior Financial Analyst will own key FP&A processes including the weekly cash forecast monthly rolling forecast departmental budgeting and reporting and ad hoc analysis supporting management decisions. The role will also contribute to annual budgeting long-range planning M&A analysis and the continued modernization of Finance workflows through automation AI-enabled tools and better use of data.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in accounting and corporate finance and is intellectually curious business-minded and eager to grow. Beyond strong analytical skills this person is naturally inclined to understand how the business operates ask thoughtful questions and translate data into actionable recommendations. They are comfortable working independently thrive in a fast-paced environment and embrace technology automation and AI-enabled tools to improve how work gets done. This individual combines strong financial acumen with sound judgment effective communication and a desire to take on increasing responsibility over time.

What Youll Do

• Own the weekly cash forecasting process partnering with Accounting and other stakeholders to understand expected cash inflows and outflows identify potential liquidity issues and improve forecast accuracy.
• Maintain and enhance the monthly rolling forecast and long-range financial model ensuring assumptions are current outputs are accurate and key operational and financial drivers are clearly understood and communicated.
• Serve as a credible finance partner to department heads by developing and communicating budgets and forecasts challenging assumptions constructively investigating variances and identifying practical opportunities to improve operating and spending decisions.
• Support the annual budgeting and long-range planning processes by collecting analyzing and consolidating revenue and expense inputs from departments.
• Quickly structure and deliver decision-ready analyses that evaluate business performance investment opportunities strategic initiatives and other management questions with clear conclusions risks and recommended actions.
• Support M&A activities including financial due diligence modeling and analytics related to potential acquisitions.
• Continuously improve FP&A processes reporting models data flows and systems to increase speed accuracy control and scalability; identify work that should be automated standardized simplified or eliminated.
• Evaluate and leverage automation AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies to improve financial processes accelerate analysis and enhance decision-making.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand operational drivers challenge assumptions constructively and help translate financial insights into business action.

What Youll Bring

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Data Analytics or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 3 years of relevant experience in FP&A corporate finance investment banking Big 4 Advisory consulting or another highly analytical and business-facing role.
• Strong accounting and financial statement knowledge including a clear understanding of the relationship between the P&L balance sheet and cash flow statement.
• Advanced financial modeling and data-analysis skills with Excel with the ability to build audit maintain and improve complex models and reporting tools while analyzing large datasets efficiently and accurately.
• Strong understanding of budgeting forecasting variance analysis and financial planning processes.
• Hands-on experience with ERP financial planning reporting business intelligence or data-visualization systems plus demonstrated ability to learn new tools quickly.
• Experience in a high-growth recurring-revenue SaaS or PE-backed environment is strongly preferred.
• CPA CFA MBA or relevant analytics or systems experience is a plus but sound judgment learning agility and demonstrated impact matter more than credentials alone.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Business Curiosity: Interested in understanding how the company operates not just how financial models work.
• Strong Judgment: Able to quickly identify what matters make reasonable assumptions and operate effectively with imperfect information.
• Technology Orientation: Naturally curious about automation AI data tools and better ways of working.
• Social Intelligence: Builds trust easily communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences and knows how to influence without creating friction.
• Ownership Mentality: Takes initiative follows through and is willing to step in where needed to help the team succeed.
• Speed and Adaptability: Learns quickly works with urgency and remains effective during demanding planning cycles transactions and critical deadlines.

Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...)

• Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical Dental Vision Life & Disability insurances for you and your family!
• Retirement Plans:Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.
• Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.
• Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.

Babel Street is anequalopportunity/affirmative actionemployer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration foremploymentwithout regard to sex gender identity sexual orientation race color religion national origin disability protected Veteran status age or any other characteristic protected by law. FurtherBabel Street will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about discussing or disclosing their pay or in certain circumstances the pay of their coworkerPay Transparency Nondiscrimination.In addition Babel Streets policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations.