Financial Analyst, Strategic Initiatives

Job Description
We are seeking a Financial Analyst (FA) to be a founding member of our newly formed Strategic Initiatives team. The Strategic Initiatives team functions as an internal consultant and incubator to rapidly identify, test, refine, and reach conviction on how to best address challenges and opportunities impacting Order.co. This role will help design, develop, and test the potential impact of incorporating strategic drivers to our performance models for our forecasts. 
The successful candidate has strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information with accuracy.  Ideally, this candidate will also be able to demonstrate an ability to manage multiple, time-sensitive projects and competing priorities simultaneously, to work independently and incorporate input from across the company, and to drive projects to completion with minimal guidance and high attention to detail.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain financial models, interpret data, draw conclusions, make recommendations that deliver results by leveraging your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions, and drive improvements to existing workflows.
Use financial systems and advanced MS Excel functions to work with large data sets to refine output plans, forecasts, and budgets in order to analyze and pressure test the long-term drivers of the business. 
Derive strategic insights and lead business action via financial data and independent/external research. Perform financial assessments and competitive analyses to evaluate market expansion, new business opportunities, and growth initiatives.
Support financing transactions, corporate development, and strategic partnership activities.
Communicate, in writing and verbally, data and conclusions in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner.
Collaborate with FP&A on improving financial planning practices across Order.co and assist on any ad hoc requests.