Ascent CFO Solutions provides outsourced CFO and accounting services to high-growth startups and established companies.
The Role
The role involves financial data analysis, automating data processes, developing internal tools, and supporting client reporting through Power BI.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position: Financial Data Analyst & Development Operations Programmer
Overview
At Ascent CFO Solutions, we are a leading Fractional CFO services firm dedicated to providing strategic financial leadership and insights for scaling companies. Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve financial clarity and sustainable growth.
We’re looking for a top-notch Financial Data Analyst + Development Operations Programmer who understands finance and can design, structure, and automate data in ways that are genuinely useful for clients and internal teams. This role blends financial analysis with data architecture and the design and development of scalable systems.
This role is split between direct client work with Ascent CFO Solutions clients and internal development for the organization. You’ll partner with smaller, growing clients—many of whom are encountering formal data architecture for the first time—to clean, structure, and model financial data, helping them build practical, scalable foundations. The remainder of your time will be spent developing and improving internal systems, tools, and automations. This is a hands-on role for someone who is curious, systems-oriented, and comfortable teaching themselves new tools as needed.
Core Responsibilities
Client Financial Data & Analytics (≈45%)
Overview
At Ascent CFO Solutions, we are a leading Fractional CFO services firm dedicated to providing strategic financial leadership and insights for scaling companies. Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve financial clarity and sustainable growth.
We’re looking for a top-notch Financial Data Analyst + Development Operations Programmer who understands finance and can design, structure, and automate data in ways that are genuinely useful for clients and internal teams. This role blends financial analysis with data architecture and the design and development of scalable systems.
This role is split between direct client work with Ascent CFO Solutions clients and internal development for the organization. You’ll partner with smaller, growing clients—many of whom are encountering formal data architecture for the first time—to clean, structure, and model financial data, helping them build practical, scalable foundations. The remainder of your time will be spent developing and improving internal systems, tools, and automations. This is a hands-on role for someone who is curious, systems-oriented, and comfortable teaching themselves new tools as needed.
Core Responsibilities
Client Financial Data & Analytics (≈45%)
- Work directly with clients to assess, restructure, and improve financial data to redesign them into intuitive, usable, and effective solutions
- Perform FP&A-style analysis using Excel, Google Sheets, and Power Query
- Build and maintain complex financial models, including robust cash flow forecasting tools and multi-source spreadsheet systems (often syncing 10–15+ interconnected spreadsheets)
- Clean, transform, and normalize financial data for reporting and analysis
- Apply strong accounting knowledge to ensure data aligns correctly across P&L statements, balance sheets and cash flow models
- Design and build internal tools and systems to support client delivery and internal workflows
- Develop and maintain spreadsheet-based systems with advanced logic and automation
- Write and maintain Google Apps Script
- Build and support API-based integrations and data connections
- Automate data flows between systems and spreadsheets
- Integrate and experiment with AI tools (including Gemini) to improve efficiency and tooling
- Utilize AI tools (including Gemini) where helpful to accelerate development, but understand the underlying logic well enough to troubleshoot and extend it
- Serve as a Power BI developer supporting client reporting needs
- Help maintain and evolve our Power BI infrastructure, ensuring data models, refresh processes, and reporting standards remain reliable and scalable.
- Use Power Query to clean, normalize, and prepare client data from various sources
- Design and maintain clear, logical Power BI data models that reflect underlying financial realities
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including the ability to create and use LAMBDA functions for custom, reusable formulas, complex spreadsheet modeling, and automation.
- Strong experience with Power Query (Excel or Power BI) and working knowledge of Power BI, including building data models and preparing data for reporting.
- Must have an understanding of accounting and financial data, including how P&L, balance sheets, and financial statements interrelate.
- Experience cleaning, transforming, and structuring real-world (often messy) financial data
- Ability to independently evaluate data structures and propose better solutions
- Google Apps Script or JavaScript
- API integrations and data connectivity
- 2-Time Winner of Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies nationwide
- 4-Time Winner of Built In's Best Places to Work
- Set your own schedule, choose the number of hours you want to work, generally between 25-35+ hours/week, and work remotely (with in-person opportunities)
- Engage with a wide range of business matters across a variety of industries
- Connect with highly talented Ascent team members (CFOs, VPs Finance, Controllers, Accounting Managers, and Senior Accountants) who are ready and willing to collaborate and support you on projects
- Benefit from our strong 12+ year reputation in delivering custom engagements with a high level of accuracy, responsiveness, and expertise
- Work directly with smart entrepreneurs and business leaders who view you as a trusted partner in their companies
- W2 Position with employee health, dental and vision insurance
- 401K match
- Quarterly stipend towards educational or professional development
- Technology stipend
- Paid sick time, holiday time & volunteer time
- Bonus/commission eligibility
- Mentoring opportunities
Top Skills
Api Integrations
Excel
Google Apps Script
Google Sheets
JavaScript
Power BI
Power Query
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The Company
What We Do
Ascent CFO Solutions is a team of fractional financial professionals with deep and diverse experiences who thrive in multi-faceted roles. Our team provides financial modeling, cash flow forecasting, data visualization, funding/capital strategy, fractional CFO consulting, interim CFO and accounting, general accounting, and M&A support to high-growth startups and established companies in all stages. We are not simply service providers. Since 2011, Ascent CFO Solutions has committed to being a firm that partners closely with its clients. We become part of the client’s trusted team and work directly with senior leadership. We differentiate our team by our level of responsiveness, accuracy, and expertise, and we utilize cloud-based tools for innovative scalable processes. Our customized approach for each client ensures that companies move in the right direction - Upward.
Why Work With Us
As a Fractional CFO firm, our team members work for multiple clients on a wide range of business matters across a variety of industries. We offer flexible schedules, the opportunity to work with growing companies who are going through transformation, and a team of caring and intelligent financial professionals who always have your back.
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