Senior Financial Analyst

Diligent Robotics

Senior Financial Analyst at Diligent Robotics managing company-wide forecasts and financial operations. Fostering collaboration between finance and business operations for strategic decision-making.

Posted 4/29/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Flux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and enhance company-wide and functional forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and long-term growth objectives.
Lead the monthly Latest Estimate (LE) process refreshing the full-year view based on actuals to date, updated run-rates, and revised operational assumptions. Opportunity to socialize the LE with the Head of Finance and functional leaders.
Lead the annual budget and long-range planning (LRP) cycles, including driver-based financial models that incorporate operational, commercial, and strategic assumptions.
Build and reconcile both top-down and bottom-up financial models so forecasts are internally consistent, realistic, and decision-useful.
Maintain scenario and sensitivity models to assess the financial impact of strategic initiatives, pricing changes, deployment pacing, and capital allocation decisions.
Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis (Actuals vs. Budget, vs. Prior LE, vs. Prior Year), translating results into clear insights on performance drivers.
Identify emerging trends, risks, and execution gaps early, and proactively recommend corrective actions.
Elevate financial storytelling by connecting results to operational and strategic context; produce clear, concise commentary for the Head of Finance, executive leadership, and parent company reporting.
Partner with Accounting during month-end close to support accruals, flux explanations, and reporting integrity.
Partner directly with the Diligent’s Director of Business Operations (BizOps) on strategic analyses that shape how Diligent runs including fleet economics, cost-to-serve, deployment pacing, customer profitability, capacity planning, and operational KPIs.
Translate operational data (deployment metrics, service events, utilization, labor hours) into financial insight and vice versa, so leadership can make better-informed decisions faster.
Build and maintain operating dashboards and unit economic models that bridge finance and operations.
Support pricing, commercial strategy, and go-to-market decisions with rigorous, well-documented analysis.
Prepare and deliver executive-ready materials, including presentations and financial narratives for leadership meetings, board reviews, and parent company reporting.
Communicate complex financial concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Product, and GTM.
Support ad hoc strategic analyses related to new market entry, pricing strategy, partnerships, and corporate initiatives.
Operate with executive presence and earn trust as a go-to thought partner for senior leadership.
Use advanced Excel/Google Sheets and emerging productivity tools (AI assistants, scripting, workflow automation) to streamline reporting and analysis.
Improve data accuracy, speed, and scalability across the FP&A stack through automation and process redesign.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or a related analytical field.
3–6 years of experience across investment banking, private equity, corporate FP&A, or strategic finance, ideally with an Investment Banking or Private Equity foundation.
Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, scenario modeling, and long-range planning.
Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets and Excel, including complex modeling, and comfort building models from a blank sheet.
Solid understanding of accounting principles and financial statements with the ability to complete 3-statement financial modeling.
Strong business acumen with the ability to turn data into insight and insight into action.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and written/verbal communication skills; able to produce executive-ready materials with minimal supervision.
Comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving priorities in a fast-scaling organization.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health insurance
retirement plans
paid time off
flexible work arrangements
professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

budgetingforecastingvariance analysisscenario modelinglong-range planningfinancial modelingdata analysisfinancial storytellingcost-to-serve analysisoperational KPIs

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solvingwritten communicationverbal communicationbusiness acumenexecutive presencetrust-buildingadaptabilitycollaborationinsight generation