Financial Analyst

Liftopia is a web-based yield management platform for ski resorts. Liftopia works with ski resorts across North America and has become the largest retailer of ski lift tickets on the web.

Liftopia is building tools that are igniting a revolution in the ski industry. We are bringing innovative products to market that benefit both alpine resorts and those who love snow and the outdoors. Liftopia's ecommerce, yield management and business intelligence technology tools allow resorts to manage and execute robust pricing strategies around their tickets, lessons, rentals and other recreational products. Our tools and services help resorts grow their revenue through business intelligence based on pricing strategy analysis & advance purchase booking data. As a result consumers can enjoy their favorite activities more frequently and at affordable prices.

Liftopia is the largest seller of lift tickets online and the largest technology provider to the ski industry in North America. Our team is the driving force behind our success. We are united by our passion for building amazing tools that are changing the ski industry for the better. You belong here if this is something that quickens your pulse and makes you want to roll-up your sleeves.

In addition to healthy cash-flow, we are proud to be backed by all-star investors including: First Round Capital (early investors in Uber, Square, Mint and One Kings Lane), Lowercase Capital's Chris Sacca (Google, Twitter, Uber, Instagram), Erik Blachford (Expedia, Inc./IAC Travel; Hipmunk, Room 77, Farecast), Sam Shank (HotelTonight), and Gregg Brockway (TripIt).

• Create and present regular business results reporting to key areas including marketing, product, resort partners, business planning and leadership.

• Build and manage complex financial models to support business decision making and forecast efforts.

• Partner with marketing team on analytics helping to ensure optimal return on marketing spend. Includes maintaining attribution model, new initiative underwriting, program specific ROI analyses, etc.

• Partner with product team to measure short and long term impact of proposed projects and efficacy of current features

• Collaborate with resort partner analytics team to help identify and forecast the impact of sales initiatives and product enhancements

• Work with senior leadership and department heads to assist in annual budget process

• Extract, analyze, and collate data from a variety of sources to create both regular and ad hoc reporting

• Perform in depth variance analyses to help the business understand past performance and future potential

• Help research and model growth/expansion opportunities

• 3+ years of experience in finance or marketing analytics, or triple bonus points for both!

• Experience with FP&A

• Prior work experience in marketing

• Experience building financial models and creating reports

• Advanced skills in Excel

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in finance/accounting/economics or similar.

Bonus points for:

• Prior work experience with FP&A in marketing analytics at a retail-focused company (this would be ideal but it’s not required to be successful in this role)

• An understanding of databases and querying. Some SQL knowledge is a big plus.

• Experience with Google Analytics or a similar tool.

• Experience working in eCommerce.