Manager, FP&A

Location: Chicago, IL (onsite 4X a week)

About Us:

Founded 19 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 450 people operating throughout the world. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity and hedging opportunities to financial participants, commodity producers and counterparties worldwide. DV Group affiliates also include two broker dealers, an introducing broker in commodities, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and several investment advisory firms.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the financial planning, reporting, and budgeting processes across the DVT portfolio of businesses
• Partner with key business leads to lead the budget, planning, and forecast formulation and execution
• Generate monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting insights by gathering and analyzing data as well as actuals/projection variances
• Identify relevant trends and key variance drivers. Advise leadership of opportunities and risk impacting the firm
• Identify process improvements to reduce process cycle times, improve financial forecast quality, and enhance information provided to leadership for business decisions
• Develop credibility and build partnerships with the accounting team and other key stakeholders across DV to facilitate efficiency, knowledge sharing, and opportunities for process improvement

Requirements:

• MBA in accounting, finance, or related degree.
• 7+ years of financial planning and analysis experience within the proprietary trading space. 
• Ability to collect, clean, and interpret large data sets across multiple systems to provide insightful analysis
• Experience in planning, coordinating, and executing multiple work streams simultaneously
• Strong grasp of income sheet, balance sheet, and cash flow financial statements interactions
• Ability to analyze financial results and assess financial impacts of business decisions.
• Experience working within a G/L system, Microsoft Dynamics preferred
• Advanced Excel knowledge and skills (including Power Query) PowerPoint; SQL and/or Python a plus
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal 
• A tech forward approach to managing day to day tasks – we love to automate and make things more efficient and so should you!
• Strong problem solver with the ability to navigate ambiguity and leverage your resources.
• The desire to take ownership of projects and ideas, while being able to identify gaps and other areas of improvement.
• The ability to adapt to a dynamic and ever-changing environment – we are in high growth mode and move quickly to achieve business goals

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary LTD, Life & AD&D insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness Programs

Annual compensation range $150 - 200K base + discretionary bonus opportunity 

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