Professional Writing: Recruitment Work
During my time at Harmonic Finance, a financial recruitment company, I was able to further cultivate my professional writing voice. For example, over course of my internship, I created multiple job advertisements on LinkedIn, conducted market research and thus provided detailed reports, and more.
Pictured down below, you will find two job-adverts that I wrote and posted.
Job Advert # 1:
Senior Accountant-Sustainable E-Commerce Role | Remote
The Client:
Harmonic Finance is ecstatic to exclusively work with a sustainable e-commerce company that is an industry leader, forward thinking, and environmentally friendly. This east coast-based client values aggressive growth and innovation, which is evident, as after six rounds of funding they have accumulated over $15 million USD.
Likewise, just as they value growth, they also value aggressively combatting climate change in their own way. This e-commerce company specializes in producing sustainable and thoughtfully designed products from the ocean, thus aiding in building a world where the ocean and its inhabitants are safe from plastic.
The Role:
If selected, you would be an integral part of the finance team and report directly to the VP of Finance and Director of Strategic Finance. Likewise, you would gain leadership experience due to the high impact nature of making strategic decisions in a hyper-growth environment.
In addition, this role also provides the opportunity to develop and track annual budgets, contribute to quarterly board reporting, and provide data-driven insights that will impact the future of the company as it scales-up.
Duties:
· Support all financial planning and forecasting across the P&L.
· Work collaboratively with budget owners to understand investment strategies.
· Manage analytics and reporting against budget and forecast scenarios.
· Develop sustainable and rigorous processes for ongoing financial reporting and review.
· In depth analysis of company performance, including identifying key KPI’s.
· Developing and maintaining financial models for analysis
· Business partnering with operations and sales team to improve internal reporting processes and give commercial insights.
· Communicate effectively across departments covering business intelligence and analytics topics to prepare and provide presentations to the executive team.
· Ad hoc projects with FP&A team.
Essential Skills/Qualities:
· Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or similar.
· 3+ years in FP+A or in a related finance role.
· Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
· Strong Excel Skills.
· Experience leading a team.
· Keen understanding of regulations and standards (IFRS, US GAAP, etc.)
· E-commerce experience/Product-based experience or a related industry
Supplementary Skills/Qualities AKA Nice Additions:
· Previous experience in client facing role.
· CPA License
· Passion for wildlife and sustainability
Salary: $120,000 - $140,000
Location: Fully Remote (Located on the East Coast –Preferable)
Please get in touch with Ed Jones at Edward.jones@haromonicfinance.com or Hannah Davies at Hannah.davies@harmonicfinance.com for more information.
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Job Advert # 2:
FP & A Manager | Fast-Growth Food Tech | Remote (East Coast Hours)
The Client
Harmonic Finance is proud to exclusively work with a fast growth American cuisine restaurant company based in the New England area. Having recently raised over $4 million in Series A funding, they are now looking to expand their finance team.
The client wants someone who is driven and experienced to join their finance team as FP & A Manager. Due to the companies’ open and forward-thinking culture, this role would best suit anyone who is adaptable, open to collaboration/teamwork, loves fast-paced environments, and has their finger on the pulse of the Food-Tech industry.
Having both a passion for technology and the restaurant business, this company works utilizes new technology to create and design their food. Likewise, their focus on innovation and excellence, means they value internally integrating the proper accounting functions and processes as their team grows.
Every day they seek to put new and healthy spin on regional age-old American classics, and thus are seen as industry disrupters. In short, this love for food, technology, and what they do is at the forefront of their mission to supply healthy, fresh, and deconstructed American food.
The Role
This position will be an integral part of the finance team and report directly to the VP of Finance. Most excitingly, this role enables the manager to gain leadership experience due to the high impact nature of making strategic decisions in a hyper-growth environment.
Likewise, this role also provides the opportunity to develop and track annual budgets, contribute to quarterly board reporting, and provide data-driven insights that will impact the future of the company as it scales-up.
Duties
· Support all financial planning and forecasting across the P&L.
· Work collaboratively with budget owners to understand investment strategies.
· Manage analytics and reporting against budget and forecast scenarios.
· Develop sustainable and rigorous processes for ongoing financial reporting and review.
· In depth analysis of company performance, including identifying key KPI’s.
· Developing and maintaining financial models for analysis
· Business partnering with operations and sales team to improve internal reporting processes and give commercial insights.
· Communicate effectively across departments covering business intelligence and analytics topics to prepare and provide presentations to the executive team.
· Ad hoc projects with FP&A team.
Essential Skills/Qualities:
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A “Can Do Attitude.”
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Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or similar.
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3+ years in FP+A or in a related finance role.
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Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
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Strong Excel Skills.
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Previous Restaurant 365 experience.
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Experience leading a team.
Supplementary Skills/Qualities:
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Experience with multi-site businesses.
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Previous experience in client facing role.
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Exposure to the Food & Beverage/Restaurant industry or a related industry.
Salary: $130,000 - $150,000
Location: Fully Remote (Located on the East Coast – Highly Preferable)
Please get in touch with Hannah Davies Hannah.davies@harmonicfinance.com for more information.
Please feel free to share this with any friends or colleagues that may be interested.
Newspaper Writing Experience:
From 2018-2020, I was an editor and even section editor of my school's newspaper (The Chronicle). As a writer and editor, I wrote articles, sourced additional writers for my sections, and formatted my section of the newspaper on InDesign.
In addition to the acts of writing, editing, and formatting my section of the paper, I was also in charge of finding writers and holding them accountable to deadlines. This was one of my earliest managerial roles and I learned the value of communicating clearly and regularly checking in with volunteers (days before their deadlines).
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