Open To Work
Christian Conlon
Senior Financial Analyst
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Analytical and detail-oriented Senior Financial Analyst with a proven track record of implementing cost savings initiatives and developing strategies for financial growth. Problem solver with the ability to think critically and offer solutions to meet changing priorities. Adept at business analysis, budgeting, financial reporting, and project management to maximize business performance while demonstrating excellent leadership capabilities.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Financial Analyst (Live Experiences Division)
Bloomberg LP
New York, USA
10.2023 - Current
- Built dynamic Excel dashboard showcasing business performance vs budget, forecast, and prior year, KPI tracking, opportunities and risks, current headcount and open roles, and functional insights to support senior leadership in decision making.
- Provides senior leadership with analysis and commentary on material monthly variances and updates financial forecasts during the monthly reporting cycle.
- Lead monthly meetings with business leadership and CFO, providing actionable insights on revenue pacing, expense pacing, and margin performance.
- Partner with event producers and project managers on a weekly basis to discuss costs and operation of all Bloomberg Live events.
- Collaborate with revenue operations team to ensure accuracy of booked revenue and pipeline opportunities captured in Salesforce, Bloomberg's CRM tool.
- Drive conversations with Bloomberg Tax department, verifying that the business adheres to correct tax guidance and accounting treatment of contracted agreements for events delivered outside of the U.S.
- Developed a scenario based financial model displaying fulling allocated P&Ls by individual event, driving cost cutting measures and margin improvement.
- Built financial model that analyzed ticket sales volume and pricing across multiple events, enabling decisions that increased ticket sales by $300k.
- Created a travel and entertainment expense dashboard, revealing key trends, and implemented team travel guidelines that drove efficiency and resulted in cost reduction vs budget.
- Owned and managed the 2026 budget submission process, projecting revenue growth of 23% Year-over-year and a margin improvement of $4.5M vs 2025.
Financial Analyst
Bloomberg LP
New York, USA
08.2021 - 10.2023
- Drove cross-functional collaboration with key stakeholders to oversee and coordinate the company's annual financial cycle
- Led monthly meetings with senior business partners, reviewing month-to-date and year-to-date expense performance while discussing strategies for cost reduction
- Owned the month-end close process, ensuring accurate financial reporting and preparing adjusting entries to substantiate and resolve material variances.
- Provided CFO and senior leaders with detailed analysis and commentary on material financial variances to budget, forecast, and prior year.
- Created expense performance dashboards for senior leaders, displaying overall financial performance and trend analysis to support decision making.
- Developed report detailing revenue, expense, and ROI by client for advertising campaigns, which revealed key trends and led to an overall improvement on gross margin by 10% vs budget.
- Analyzed advertising operations and optimizations costs by vendor and identified areas of duplicative services, leading to a reduction in number of contracted vendors and cost savings of $200k vs budget.
- Streamlined budget ownership and management through clarifying key cost center owners and consolidating GL account usage across the business.
Junior Financial Analyst
Geller & Company
New York, USA
12.2018 - 08.2021
- Collaborated with a team of 15 on financial forecasting and planning for the Media Division of Geller's main client, Bloomberg L.P.
- Managed recording of expenses to the General Ledger, posting monthly journal entries for accruals, reclasses, and prepaids to ensure accurate reporting.
- Performed monthly reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts, and provided detailed supporting documentation to verify accuracy.
- Assisted in creation of detailed revenue reports by client and product for $60M content licensing and partnership business.
- Liaised with vendors and Accounts Payable to confirm invoice compliance and ensure timely payments.
- Worked closely with Procurement to generate purchase orders for large contracts and SOWs, improving cost management efficiency.
- Tracked production and distribution costs for Bloomberg Television and Radio, and analyzed key expense drivers to identify savings opportunities.
Education
Bachelor of Business - Accounting
Loyola Maryland University
MD05-2018
Skills
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Power Query
- SAP S/4 HANA
- SAP BW
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- Salesforce
- Alteryx
Certification
Accelerate Leadership Certification from Bain Academy
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteHybridSalary Range
$125000/yr - $175000/yrTimeline
Sr. Financial Analyst (Live Experiences Division)
Bloomberg LP
10.2023 - Current
Financial Analyst
Bloomberg LP
08.2021 - 10.2023
Junior Financial Analyst
Geller & Company
12.2018 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Business - Accounting
Loyola Maryland University