Hiring: Financial Analyst (Engineering and R&D) Company: Apex Location: Los Angeles, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 16:29:58 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Apex, Financial Planning, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, R About the job Experience: •5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a comparable analytical finance role. Required Skills: •Headcount ownership: Own headcount planning and headcount modeling across the company, maintaining accurate, department-level forecasts and partnering with hiring managers on plan versus actuals. •Engineering partnership: Serve as the finance business partner to the Engineering organization, providing analysis, guidance, and financial visibility to Engineering and R&D leadership. •Planning cycles: Act as a key contributor to the company's planning cycles (annual budget, reforecasts, and long-range planning), including preparation, consolidation, and review. •Variance analysis: Perform variance analysis, explaining drivers of budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual differences and surfacing actionable insights. •Reporting: Assist with monthly and quarterly reporting, including executive and management-level materials. •Process improvement: Identify and implement process improvements and system enhancements that increase the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of FP&A workflows. •PO/PR support: Support purchase order (PO) and purchase requisition (PR) approvals and tracking for multi-million-dollar projects within the Engineering team. Qualifications: •3–5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a comparable analytical finance role. •Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. •Strong command of financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis. •Operational familiarity with purchase order and purchase requisition approval processes for multi-million-dollar projects. •Demonstrated capacity to be flexible and adapt quickly to shifting priorities in a dynamic environment. •Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with senior leadership and technical (Engineering/R&D) stakeholders. •U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data. •Operational familiarity with Engineering and Research & Development (R&D) cost structures and financial dynamics. •Advanced competency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. •Apex believes in creating a work environment that you look forward to embracing every day. Our employees love working at Apex, and we want you to love it too. We're a fast-growing startup that has raised more than $500M in funding, and we invest heavily in our people from day one. Compensation: •$100,000 - $130,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!