Financial Analyst Lead (FP&A)

About The Role

The Financial Analyst Lead will play a pivotal role in modernizing the financial forecasting and reporting capabilities of the organization. This position bridges finance, data engineering, and advanced analytics, leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and AI/ML to build automated, intelligent financial processes. The analyst will design the foundational data structures, pipelines, and models that enable automated forecasting and set the stage for agentic (autonomous) forecasting routines.

What You Will Be Doing

• Enable and maintain automated data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
• Develop data models and transformations to support forecasting and reporting
• Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance
• Develop advanced Power BI dashboards and semantic models
• Optimize models for performance and scalability
• Create reusable reporting templates
• Build ML-driven forecasting models using Python, AutoML, or Fabric ML
• Translate business drivers into ML models
• Support accuracy evaluation and scenario modeling
• Build foundations for agentic forecasting
• Collaborate with FP&A and Accounting teams
• Support forecasting cycles with automated analytics
• Identify automation opportunities
• Standardize documentation and contribute to analytics roadmap

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Analytics, CS, or related field
• Generally requires 5+ years in FP&A, financial modeling, or data analytics
• Power BI expertise (DAX, modeling)
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric or Azure data platforms
• Python/SQL and ML familiarity
• Strong financial/AIS understanding

Added Bonus If You Have

• Experience with automated forecasting models
• MLOps or Azure ML exposure
• Advanced data engineering skills
• Semantic model expertise
• Understanding of agentic AI concepts