Overall Scope: To support our continued growth opportunities, Gold’s Gym is currently searching for Financial Analyst candidates to fill an opening in our Accounting & Finance department. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join a growing company and to become a part of the most famous brand in fitness.
Responsibilities:
Operations Finance
- Support the annual budgeting process, including development of monthly budgets for the next calendar year for individual gyms.
- Support long-range planning for corporate growth through acquisition, new site development and roll-out of new service offerings to existing facilities.
- Intra-month score-carding and reporting to facilitate executive level decision-making.
- Member and customer analysis to provide insight regarding new member sales, gym usage, gym traffic and member attrition.
- Revenue modeling and analysis to support pricing and volume decisions for existing facilities and new locations.
- Expense modeling and analysis to support field and corporate expenditure initiatives.
- Additional financial and operational analysis, as required, to support gym operations, as well as near-term and long-term financial decision making.
- Analytical support of marketing, retail and concessions, corporate sales, group exercise, personal training and other departments, per request.
- Assist with month-end and year-end close as needed.
Operating Metrics and Billing Support
- Maintain all operating metrics files, including monthly upload to general ledger.
- Perform periodic audit of active member files to ensure proper recording of member status, adherence to ASC 606 revenue accounting, and member counts.
- Support billing department in monthly billing process, including periodic audit of billing files and reconciliation to active member files and other records.
- Interface with leadership team and department personnel to communicate findings.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree is required.
- Financial modeling and data-analysis skills in Microsoft Excel are required.
- Experience with ERP systems (Great Plains Microsoft Dynamics preferred)
- Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Experience with mergers & acquisitions is a plus
- Advanced Excel capabilities are required.
- Major in Finance, Accounting or Business is preferred, but not required.
- Minimum of 2 – 3+ years’ work experience in financial / accounting role is preferred.
- Knowledge of Accounting rules and mechanics is a strong plus.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required.
- Ability to learn quickly and to adapt to fast-moving analytical situations with minimal oversight and guidance is a must.