Senior Financial Analyst

At
Advantive
, we don’t just make software—we build careers and power the manufacturing and distribution backbone of the global economy. We are growing fast, investing in AI, and building a culture where motivated, curious people rise quickly.

Senior Financial Analyst
The Senior Financial Analyst reports to the Corporate Finance Manager and serves as the company’s expense subject-matter expert. In this role, you will own and maintain expense forecasts—spanning workforce planning, vendor spend, and other non-operating expenses—identify and quantify savings opportunities, and deliver clear, actionable insights that improve outcomes and support growth.

You will partner closely with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A business partnership, support other business partners across the organization with their expense needs, and play a central role in the monthly close and in maintaining forecasts within our financial planning platform (Adaptive). You will also support internal and external corporate reporting.

This role is designed to grow. You will begin by supporting the Corporate Finance Manager across these areas and progressively take full ownership of expense forecasting, workforce planning, and related reporting. It is a high-impact opportunity for an analytically strong, business-minded operator who brings rigor, curiosity, and a strategic lens to FP&A.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the company-wide expense subject-matter expert—the go-to authority for business partners on expense methodology, budget challenge, and spend visibility—owning forecasts across workforce planning, vendor spend, and other non-operating expenses
• Proactively analyze expense data to identify and surface savings opportunities across the business, quantifying impact and partnering with stakeholders to drive realization
• Own the personnel model end-to-end, maintaining and continually improving the workforce planning forecast and ensuring headcount, compensation, and related inputs are accurate, current, and clearly visible
• Build and maintain vendor and other non-operating expense forecasts using detailed, bottoms-up methodology
• Own and maintain financial proformas, ensuring models reflect current assumptions
• Partner with the Corporate Finance Manager on G&A business partnership, and support other business partners with expense planning, analysis, and ad hoc requests
• Play a key role in the monthly close, including expense accruals, variance analysis, and clearly communicating drivers of performance versus budget and forecast
• Play an active role in the annual budgeting and reforecasting process, developing expense budgets and partnering with stakeholders to build and challenge their plans
• Maintain forecasts and model structure within Adaptive, ensuring data integrity across the planning platform
• Support the development and delivery of internal and external corporate reporting tailored to management and board-level needs
• Perform detailed variance analysis and translate results into clear, actionable narratives—explaining performance drivers versus budget and forecast—to support decision-making at all levels
• Build and maintain financial models that support strategic decision-making
• Extract actionable insights from imperfect or incomplete datasets using advanced Excel modeling techniques
• Gain exposure to three-statement modeling, cash and leverage forecasting, and proforma methodology, with the opportunity to contribute as the role expands
• Progress toward full ownership of expense forecasting, workforce planning, and related reporting over time
• Deliver high-quality outputs consistently in a fast-paced environment, managing time efficiently and maintaining productivity under pressure

Competencies
Disciplined execution:
Detail-oriented and organized; prioritizes effectively, excels at time management, and anticipates well in decision making

Attention to detail:
Takes a meticulous approach to work, prioritizing accuracy and thoroughness to ensure high-quality outcomes

Bottoms-up forecasting:
Employs detailed bottoms-up forecasting to produce accurate business projections

Expense ownership and business partnership:
Serves as a trusted partner to budget owners, providing visibility, guidance, and challenge on spend

Data analysis and reporting:
Uses data analysis skills to support business decisions and reporting

Large dataset manipulation:
Manages and analyzes large datasets to derive actionable business insights

AI-forward mindset:
Incorporates AI tools into daily workflows and continually seeks opportunities to leverage automation and AI to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required
• 3+ years of experience in an FP&A role
• Advanced Excel skills required

Preferred

• Prior experience with expense ownership, workforce planning, and/or vendor forecasting
• Experience interacting with NetSuite
• Experience with Adaptive Planning is not required, but a willingness to learn and operate within the platform is essential
• Comfort partnering with non-finance stakeholders and communicating financial concepts clearly

Location:
Tampa, FL

Office Requirement:
In office 2 days a week - subject to change

The Advantive Way
How Advantive works, in brief: six values, five promises, and three AI habits, one way of working. The values are who we are; the promises are what we deliver. This is what we hire for, at every level, and it applies to this role in full.

Our Values
: who we are

The bar below which no behavior is acceptable, on the floor, in the backbone, and in this role.

Humility
Team-first; team success ahead of self-interest.

Integrity
Candid; admit mistakes; do the right thing even when it costs.

Grit
Fortitude and fierce resolve; long-term goals over short-term comfort.

Results Orientation
Measured by results, not effort; execution over busyness.

Winning Attitude
Optimistic and determined; persevere through adversity.

Drive to Excellence
Seek feedback; learn, grow, be the best version of ourselves.

The Five Promises:
what we deliver

The standard by which all work is measured. Not values, but promises: harder to walk back, easier to coach against.

• Start where the work is. Go to the floor before the office; build from reality, not theory.
• Make it run. Ship software that runs where the work happens, and own it in production.
• Own the hard part. The customer's job is hard enough; we don't hand off the mess.
• Show up as a team. Heroes burn out; teams compound. No vanishing reps.
• Move their number. Outcomes, not activity. The number the customer is judged on, not ours.

How We Work With AI
Openly Learn: share what works, failures included.

Nurture Curiosity: ask the model why; don't accept first answers.

Earn Trust: the operator decides what's true; verify before you ship.