Financial Analyst, CoStar Group - Arlington, VA

Financial Analyst, CoStar Group - Arlington, VA Job Description **Who is CoStar Group?** **CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP)**is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.**Role Overview: Financial Analyst** *Arlington, VA | In office, Monday – Friday* At CoStar Group, our finance group centralizes transaction processes, providing accurate reporting, financial resolutions, and proper forecasting analysis. CoStar is currently seeking an experienced Financial Analyst to join the Business Unit Finance Team supporting their Commercial Real Estate business. The Senior Financial Analyst will perform financial analysis/modeling, develop management/sales reporting and conduct variance analysis. The Financial Analyst will play a significant role in modeling the company's revenue and expense forecasts while identifying growth-drivers within the business. **Key Responsibilities** - Work closely with other Finance staff as well as and non-financial professionals around the company (e.g. President/General Managers, Sales Leaders, Marketing team, Product team etc.) to develop budgets and forecasts and maintain those forecasts in the budgeting system. - Concentrated focus on revenue drivers including sales rep productivity, sales activities and performance, as well as SaaS metrics and drivers. Partner with Sales and Executive Leadership to support their reporting needs to highlight operational performance, present actionable insights, and measure alignment with strategic objectives. - Maintain customer analysis including penetration, total addressable market sizing and performance against specific sales campaigns. - Focus on expense tracking, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling to communicate impacts on business unit profitability. - Collaborate with Marketing to review advertising campaign effectiveness, perform search engine marketing cost analysis, and identify opportunities for more efficient spending. - Assist with the design and creation of PowerPoint presentations for management presentations to support quarterly business reviews and strategic decision making. - Evaluate, model and analyze M&A targets that align with supported business units, as necessary. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university. - A track record of commitment to prior employers. - 1+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, finance, analytics, and/or sales operations; MBA or related master’s degree may be considered in lieu of equivalent professional experience. - Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and financial modeling skills. - Experience using financial and budgeting applications is required. **Preferred Qualifications** - Master's degree in accounting, finance, or related. - The ideal candidate must have excellent written and oral communication skills with a track record of working successfully with both financial and non-finance professionals. - FP&A experience within a publicly traded or large SaaS…