Accounting & Finance ✦ Dedicated & full-time

Financial
Analyst

Models, variance analysis and board-ready reporting that turn numbers into decisions — from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
Fully managedWe hire, you lead

What a Financial Analyst does

Good decisions need clean analysis, not just data. A financial analyst builds the models, runs the variance analysis and produces the reporting your leaders actually use.

Every StaffingSolutions.io financial analyst is recruited, hired and managed by us — reference-checked for your tools, working your business hours, and backed by our zero-risk promise: no placement fee, money-back first week, and a free replacement if the fit isn't right.

What they handle

  • Financial modelling — forecasts and scenarios.
  • Budget vs actual — variance analysis.
  • Management & board reporting.
  • KPI dashboards — live and clear.
  • Ad-hoc analysis — answers on demand.
  • Data consolidation — many sources, one view.
The actual work

A week in the role

Lives in the model and the management pack. Actuals in, forecast reset, variances explained by cause rather than by size, and the board pages written before the deadline. Between closes it is margin questions, budget iterations and whatever the CFO needs answered by Friday with the workings visible.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Three-way model upkeep

Maintains the linked profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow model in Excel, loads actuals each month, checks the balance sheet still balances after driver changes, and version-controls the file so everyone works from the same build.

Variance analysis and commentary

Compares actual against budget and latest forecast by cost centre, isolates price, volume and timing effects instead of reporting the gap, and gets the reason from the budget holder before writing commentary for the management pack.

Rolling forecast reset

Reforecasts the remaining months after each close, updating revenue drivers, headcount timing, project phasing and known contract wins and losses, and shows exactly what changed since the previous forecast and what caused it.

Board and management pack

Assembles the pack — result summary, divisional performance, cash position, capex spend against approval, KPI page — writes the narrative pages, and gets it to the CFO in time for their review before distribution.

Power BI reporting

Refreshes the semantic model, maintains the DAX measures and the mapping between the general ledger chart of accounts and the reporting hierarchy, and rebuilds dashboards when the business changes how it wants performance cut.

Margin and discount analysis

Analyses gross margin by product, customer, branch or job, tracks discount leakage and freight recovery, and identifies where cost of sales moved against price so the sales lead can see which work is worth repeating.

Budget cycle coordination

Issues cost centre templates, holds the version log, chases managers for their inputs, consolidates submissions and runs the iterations after each executive review until the numbers are ready to go to the board.

Rolling cash flow forecast

Builds the thirteen-week direct cash forecast from the debtor and creditor ledgers, payroll dates, BAS and PAYG instalments and loan repayments, then reports actual against forecast weekly and explains the timing differences.

Capex and investment models

Builds the model behind a business case — payback, net present value, internal rate of return — with sensitivity tables on the assumptions that actually move the answer, for the decision maker to test and challenge.

Headcount and labour cost model

Models payroll cost by cost centre including on-costs, superannuation, leave provisioning and recruitment timing, reconciles it back to the payroll reports, and shows the effect of proposed roles on the forecast result.

Data preparation and mapping

Builds the Power Query extracts from Xero, MYOB Advanced or NetSuite, cleans the trial balance mapping, and rebuilds the reporting hierarchy when new accounts, departments or entities are added so reports do not silently drop values.

Ad hoc analysis

Turns around the questions that arrive mid-month — the effect of a price rise, whether a contract covers its cost to serve, what a site closure does to overhead absorption — with the workings laid out to be audited.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does a financial analyst cost?
From $14/hr + GST for a full-time, dedicated team member — roughly $29K a year against $95K–$115K all-in for the local equivalent once you add super, leave, payroll tax, software and a desk. No placement fee, no setup fee, no recruitment retainer: you pay from the day they start, for hours worked, and interviewing candidates costs nothing. Specialist roles sit a little higher. Run your numbers →
How fast can they start?
Typically 14 days from your discovery call to day one. In the first week we source and screen against your brief; you get three matched profiles and interview whoever you like. Once you choose, we handle the offer, the contract, equipment and connectivity checks, and induct them on our side before they reach you. Specialist roles — developers, NDIS claims, anything needing niche software — can take a week longer, because we won't pad a shortlist just to hit a date.
What if the fit isn't right?
You're covered twice over. If it's clearly wrong by day five, your first week is refunded in full. After that, a free replacement any time — new shortlist, new interviews, no second fee, because there was never a first one. Before it gets that far, talk to us: our HR manager will work through it with you and the team member, since most problems turn out to be an unclear process rather than the wrong person, and a fortnight of coaching usually fixes it. Replacing someone is the last resort, not the first move.
Is there a minimum term?
Three months, then month to month. It's the same runway you'd give a new local hire to learn your systems, your clients and your standards — and the team members who get a fair run are the ones who stay for years. There are no exit penalties at any point, and if the issue is the person rather than the role, the first-week refund and free replacement cover that separately.
How do you handle confidentiality?
The same way you'd treat any remote team member. Every placement signs an NDA and a confidentiality clause before day one, and they work inside your systems — your email, your CRM, your file storage — so you control what they can see and can revoke access instantly. No client data is stored on our side.
What stays with you, and what goes to them?
They take the recurring, process-driven part of the financial Analyst role — the work that happens the same way every week and eats your day. Judgement calls, client relationships, anything requiring your licence, sign-off or authority stay with you. The clients who get the most out of a financial Analyst hand over a defined process and keep the decisions, rather than handing over the whole function and hoping. On the discovery call we'll map which tasks fall on which side of that line before you commit to anything.
How do I hand the work over without losing weeks to training?
Record yourself doing the task once and talk through it as you go — a fifteen-minute screen recording beats a written manual every time, and your financial Analyst will turn it into a documented process you both work from. Expect the first fortnight to be shadowing and checking, then steadily less. If you have nothing documented, that's normal and it's not a blocker: we'll help you decide what to record first, and your account manager checks in through the whole ramp-up.