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Financial Planning Specialist

United States·GreenvilleFull-Timemid

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Why GLS? Purpose: Access to affordable, reliable transportation is essential to leading productive work and personal lives, caring well for oneself, one’s family, and the needs of others.

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Finance & AccountingFinancial Planning

Why GLS?

Purpose: Access to affordable, reliable transportation is essential to leading productive work and personal lives, caring well for oneself, one’s family, and the needs of others. Through advanced analytics and technology, we can more accurately predict credit risk and provide more people with an affordable auto financing option for their next vehicle. That’s what GLS has done for over 10 years, helping more than half a million families meet and improve their transportation needs.

People: Join a culture of over 1,000 employees who Care Deeply and Think Boldly, driving innovation in an adaptive and positive culture that celebrates successes. We empower and reward individuals and teams who make direct, positive impacts to the business and each other, who take pride in their work and are ever-raising the bar.

Growth: Recognized by Inc 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Join GLS to grow with us!

Benefits: GLS offers the below great benefits for your amazing work!

o Competitive base pay and performance bonuses, dependent on role

o Medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, supplemental insurance benefits, long-term and short-term disability

o 401K with employer match and 100% immediate vesting

o Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid company holidays to help you balance work and personal life

o Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Annually

o Tuition Reimbursement

o Parental Leave

o Business casual work environment

***This posting is to enter our campus recruiting and entry-level process for position offers being made for 2026***

What does it mean to be a Financial Planning Specialist at GLS?

As a Financial Planning Specialist, you will support several functions that contribute to the overall financial success of the organization including but not limited to department-level budgeting and forecasting, detailed expense reporting and review, vendor management and analysis, headcount monitoring and forecasting, special cost savings projects, and monthly expense journal entries.

Update and maintain the department budget process; identify key monthly variances to budget and present to senior management; prepare materials for monthly and quarterly communications with department leaders

Monitor monthly expenses with key vendors and identify material issues for senior management

Collaborate with Accounting team to determine and book monthly expense accruals

Support the vendor management process with detailed financial analyses of vendor proposal

Monitor and track monthly spend on third party labor; coordinate the capital expenditure accounting process with the Accounting department; coordinate with the IT department on third party labor allocations

Coordinate with senior management to identify cost savings projects; support or lead ad hoc cost savings projects as necessary

Build and maintain detailed cost forecasts by department as necessary

Support the overall budgeting process by providing insights on cost trends

Maintain and build analyses to monitor headcount levels and trends, and allocate headcount by location; identify and explain key drivers of variances to employee expense as needed

Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Finance, Financial Management, Accounting, Mathematics, or a related field required

Basic knowledge of accounting and financial concepts required

Strong analytical, problem solving, data gathering, and analysis skills required

Strong Excel skills required; basic knowledge least one computer coding language (VBA, SQL) preferred

High level of intellectual curiosity required including the inclination and ability to understand the drivers of financial results and the overall financial picture of the organization at a high-level

High level of professional maturity; verbal and written communication skills necessary to interact with senior management required

Strong drive, ambition, and self-motivation; ‘self-starter’ with the ability to independently resolve day-today issues

Excellent organizational skills with high attention to detail

Team player that can adapt in a fast paced and changing environment

Commitment to exemplifying the organizational core values and key competencies

This is an exempt level position whereby business need will dictate the exact work schedule which should be expected to vary at times. Generally, the days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm

Regular, predictable attendance is required, including in excess of 40 hours per week as business demands dictate

Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand

The position does not require travel

Significant portions of daily assignments involve application of manual skills requiring motor coordination in combination with finger dexterity

Remain in a stationary position up to 100% of the workday

Significant portions of daily assignments involve application of manual skills requiring motor coordination in combination with finger dexterity

Remain in a stationary position up to 100% of the workday

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