ABOUT THIS ROLE

Job Description

Cars.com is a leading online destination that offers information from experts and consumers to help car shoppers and owners buy, sell and service their vehicles. With more than 30 million monthly visits to its web properties, Cars.com offers millions of new and used vehicle listings, reviews, unbiased editorial content, and a wide range of shopping tools. Despite being a nearly 20-year-old company, Cars.com has maintained its startup culture as a fun, fast-paced environment with highly-engaged employees who are committed to constant innovation. Cars.com’s workforce has access to growth and career development opportunities, health and wellness programs, an attractive compensation and benefits package and more. Cars.com has been—and will continue to be—a great place to work. 

Cars.com is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Performance Reporting & Analysis to perform profitability reporting and project finance work at Cars.com.  Typical work includes: providing marginal and fully allocated profitability and cash generation analysis by customer, business, product, and employee; developing financial models for new products and other business opportunities, performing cost-benefit analysis, measuring and tracking financial and non-financial performance factors to influence decision-making.  The Senior Analyst and his/her Manager will work collaboratively across the organization to gather the information needed and disseminate it.  The audience for most deliverables will be Director-level to C-suite executives. This position will report to the Manager of Performance Reporting & Analysis.

Responsibilities include:

• Producing monthly and quarterly profitability reporting and analysis by customer, business, product, customer-facing employee, and other segments as relevant
• Turning performance analysis into business intelligence to inform senior management and improve budgeting and forecasting accuracy
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization to collect information and disseminate it as necessary
• Upholding consistent standards across all deliverables for ease of use, transferability, and sustainability
• Identifying and evaluating resources and tools to improve efficiency of data collection and partner with technology resources to assess data accuracy and maintain BI Data/Reporting
• Collaborating with Financial Planning & Analysis to share business intelligence which will improve accuracy in forecasting and budgeting process
• Develop monthly and ad-hoc reporting/analysis capabilities including variance analysis 

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Highly organized with a keen attention to detail and strong focus on accuracy
• Highly analytical and naturally curious
• Ability to follow set standards in order to maintain consistency of deliverables
• Desire to continuously learn and improve, even beyond his/her direct areas of responsibility; continuously seeking ways to do things better, faster and with less manual intervention
• Highly advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience with BI Reporting or data visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI, DOMO)
• Clear and concise communicator that can adapt message as appropriate for the intended audience
• Ability to self-teach and work independently, even on less-defined projects
• Planful and well-organized; ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment
• Highly adaptable team player, ability to pivot quickly depending on the needs of the business
• Passionate, energetic, approachable with a positive, low-ego, can-do demeanor

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Engineering or related field
• MBA and/or CPA a plus, but not required
• 3+ years of experience in FP&A, Analytics or Consulting
• Experience in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment preferred

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