Financial Analyst
Job ID: 41540
Sector: Accounting
Employment Type: Permanent
Date Added: 09/09/2025
Our client is an organization in the Milwaukee area looking for a Financial Analyst. Our client is looking for someone with accounting experience, a go-getter, and who is highly detailed oriented. This position offers an empowering culture, growth opportunities and a hybrid work environment.
The salary range for this role is $60k-80k.
The Financial Analyst will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Prepare monthly financial statements.
- Conduct special studies to analyze complex financial actions and prepare recommendations for policy, procedure, control, or action.
- Analyze financial information to determine present and future financial performance.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliation for all cash accounts.
- Evaluate complex profit plans, operating records, and financial statements.
- Collaborate with other departments to address financial questions, provide support and improve the financial process.
- Ad hoc projects and reports as needed.
The Financial Analyst will possess the following:
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or closely related field
- 1+ years of accounting experience preferred
- Strong analytical skills
- Well organized and detail oriented
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Equal Opportunity Employer
The compensation philosophy reflects the Company’s reasonable expectation at the time of posting. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including, but not limited to skills, experience level, and overall qualifications. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary incentive program, subject to the rule governing the program.
JOB ORDER QUALITY: B. Low comp, can’t work directly with HM, and they’ve been working with other firms. Have some people in process already. Great company and hiring manager.SOURCE: Met Josh during client drop in with Christine where he mentioned this role being a possibility. Saw role posted and reached out.
BILLING CONTACT: Trish Washburn for now
COMPANY: S3 Aerodefense. Growing 20-30% top line revenue. Headcount has gone from 80 to 130 since 2021. Privately held. Aerospace distribution, services and repair.
TITLE: Financial Analyst
LOCATION: Glendale
WORK ARRANGEMENT: Hybrid. Monday-Wednesday is on site. Thursday-Friday is remote.
WHY OPEN: Primarily maternity leave but an addition to the team. This person will still have plenty to do when Maggie returns from leave.
HIRING MANAGERS: Josh Leuck – Director of Finance. Maggie – Payroll Accounting Manager. Trish Washburn is TA person.
TEAM: Maggie – payroll accounting manager. She is going on maternity leave in November. This person will be helping to cover but will also stay and grow with the team. Emily who we placed. Katie/Kathleen Accounts receivable. Jennifer is a credit analyst and accounts receivable for 3 months. Sherry and Andrea on the AP side.
ROLE SPECIFICS: Financial statement prep, month-end close, bank recs, budgeting, variance analysis, management report preparation, revenue forecasting, financial modeling. 45 days to close for month-end. Blend of accounting and FP&A work.
IDEAL PROFILE:
- Bachelors in Accounting required
- Would consider a really strong new grad with substantial internship
- 1-3 years of accounting experience ideally
- Seem to prefer public accounting profile but open to industry
- Culture fit is big. Needs to be a go-getter, not someone who will sit on their phone when they have down time. What else can I learn or research or offer to help with.
- Even keeled, independent worker, adaptability
COMPENSATION (Incl: KEY BENEFITS): up to $80k but ideally within $60k-65k + bonus usually around 10%.
Medical, dental, vision. 80-85% of medical premiums, 100% of dental and vision. 15 days of PTO – includes vacation, sick, and personal time.
POSTED COMPENSATION (If different): $60k-80k
RELOCATION AVAILABLE?
SIZZLE/GROWTH: Continued progression path already established for this role. Culture is one that’s super positive, very transparent, very extreme ownership. Empowering. Never been part of a culture like this. Everyone is super happy, everyone produces. The biggest commodity and value is the people. They believe in investing in their people. Every other Friday is a half day. Ask that the employee makes up the 4 hours during that pay period.
INTERVIEW PROCESS: Want to develop a more streamlined approach. Brought her on to help with the candidate experience and HM experience. Want to reduce what ends up in Josh’s inbox. They are instituting and tracking different metrics, they’re now asking agencies to work directly with her. She’s sending me a candidate submission template. Send resumes to Trish. Josh will do a 30-minute Teams interview, and then on-site for a panel: Maggie – Payroll accounting Manager, and Yousef who is the CFO.
FORMAL JOB DESCRIPTION: Attached in files