Senior FP&A Analyst - Burr Ridge, IL in Burr Ridge, Illinois at A-Rent Test Equipment, LLC

Job Description: Senior FP&A Analyst

Company Overview:

A-Rent Test Equipment is a fast-growing company dedicated to supporting the reliability, safety, and modernization of the electrical grid. We rent a multimillion-dollar fleet of specialized electrical test equipment to customers nationwide, enabling the testing and maintenance of critical infrastructure such as switchgear, transformers, substations, cables, and related electrical systems.

Our customers operate in essential and rapidly growing end markets, including utilities, electrical contractors, data centers, renewable energy, industrial facilities, and grid modernization projects. As demand for reliable electrical infrastructure continues to grow, A-Rent is investing in people, systems, analytics, and technology to scale the business while maintaining our reputation for market-leading customer service.

This is an exciting time to join A-Rent. We are expanding our financial, operational, and data capabilities; building more sophisticated reporting and forecasting tools; evaluating acquisition opportunities; and partnering closely with experienced investors and advisors to support the next stage of growth.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly analytical, curious, and proactive Senior FP&A Analyst to help drive better decision-making across the business. This role will be a key member of the finance team and will partner directly with leadership across sales, operations, fleet management, accounting, and executive management.

The Senior FP&A Analyst will own core financial models, support budgeting and forecasting, analyze business performance, develop actionable insights from data, and help improve the systems and processes that support company-wide decision-making.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building from scratch, solving ambiguous problems, improving processes, and using modern tools — including Power BI, data platforms, and AI-enabled applications — to make finance and the broader organization more effective.

The right candidate will combine strong financial modeling and analytical skills with a builder’s mindset, intellectual curiosity, and a desire to help a growing company scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning, Forecasting & Business Analysis

• Build and maintain forecast models that support the business continuously striving to improve revenue, margin, fleet utilization, capital planning and other key operational metrics.
• Drive the process of annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, long term planning and monthly board reporting.
• Translate complex financial and operational data and reporting into clear, actionable insights that support data driven decision making.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to understand business performance and help evaluate pricing, fleet investment, customer profitability, utilization, and growth opportunities.
• Develop and maintain models related to customer lifetime value, equipment-level economics, capital deployment, ROI, and contribution margin.

Power BI, Data Analytics & Reporting

• Serve as a finance super user of A-Rent’s Power BI analytics and data platform.
• Partner with business leaders to define reporting needs, improve KPI visibility, and enhance management reporting.
• Scope, prioritize, and help implement new dashboards and reporting tools in partnership with third-party data and analytics consultants.
• Manage analytics-related projects from business requirement definition through testing, implementation, training, and adoption.

AI, Automation & Process Improvement

• Learn and apply AI tools, large language models, and automation platforms to create practical solutions for the finance team and broader organization.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI models to reduce manual work, streamline recurring processes, and improve the speed and quality of analysis.
• Help refine and optimize existing AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve adoption, accuracy, usability, and business impact across the finance team and broader organization.
• Build and help scope lightweight tools, workflows, and web applications that improve reporting, analysis, data collection, process management, or cross-functional communication.

M&A, Investor & Strategic Finance Support

• Play an active role in M&A-related analysis, including both buy-side and sell-side workstreams.
• Support acquisition evaluation through financial modeling, due diligence support, data room preparation, and integration planning.
• Work directly with high-quality investor groups, advisors, lenders, and private equity sponsors.
• Gain exposure to the full transaction lifecycle, including opportunity assessment, due diligence, valuation support, financing, closing preparation, and post-close integration.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, transaction advisory, consulting, corporate finance, or another highly analytical finance role.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to build models from scratch to answer business questions.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets.
• Experience with Power BI, SQL, NetSuite, data warehouses, or similar analytics/reporting tools preferred.
• Interest in AI tools, automation, low-code/no-code platforms, scripting, or building internal tools strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex analysis clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Intellectual curiosity, ownership mentality, and a bias toward action.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• High-impact finance role: Work directly with senior leadership and influence decisions across pricing, fleet investment, growth strategy, operations, and capital allocation.
• Modern analytics platform: Become a power user and business owner of Power BI dashboards and reporting tools that are actively shaping how the company manages performance.
• AI and automation exposure: Help bring practical AI tools and process automation into finance and cross-functional workflows.
• M&A involvement: Gain direct exposure to acquisitions, due diligence, investor materials, and transaction-related analysis.
• Private equity and investor exposure: Work with sophisticated investors, advisors, and board members as the company scales.
• Builder opportunity: Join a growing organization where processes, tools, and reporting capabilities are still being built — and where strong contributors can have an outsized impact.
• Mission-driven end markets: Support the infrastructure behind grid reliability, electrification, data centers, renewables, and the modernization of the electrical system.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus opportunity.
• Comprehensive employer-paid health benefits, including medical, dental, and disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions.
• Opportunity to join a growing company at an exciting stage of development.
• Direct exposure to executive leadership, strategic projects, and high-value business decisions.