Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst will report directly to the COO and own both the organization’s financial analysis and its day-to-day accounting. Roughly half of the role involves financial analysis — building and maintaining the operating budget and scenarios, running monthly budget-to-actual variance analysis, forecasting cash flow, and providing leadership with clear guidance on cost and expense risks and opportunities. The remaining half is hands-on accounting — daily bookkeeping in QuickBooks, journal entries, monthly reconciliations, the close, and financial statement preparation.

This split is approximate and flexes with the calendar — heavier on accounting at month-end and audit time, heavier on analysis during budgeting and board cycles.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who is genuinely strong in analysis and equally comfortable keeping accurate books. You will be a close thought partner to leadership, helping a mission-driven organization plan wisely and steward every dollar.

Scholars of Finance is a rapidly growing organization on a mission to inspire character and integrity in the finance leaders of tomorrow. We seek to solve the world’s largest problems by investing in undergraduate students through leadership development, mentorship, and the active support of purpose-driven finance executives and investors.

Our members go on to join top firms, funds, and a lifelong support community that empowers them to spend their careers serving the greater good using one of the most powerful levers in the world: finance. Since hiring our first staff in 2019, we’ve raised millions of dollars, partnered with hundreds of finance leaders, and impacted thousands of students across top universities—and we’re just getting started.

We are a close-knit, high-performing, mission-driven team with an ambitious vision: a future where all finance leaders steward the world’s capital to serve the greater good.