As a virtual financial analyst, you monitor, analyze, study, and collect data to better recommend appropriate financial actions to a client or your employer. Your responsibilities as a remote, online financial analyst include using the internet to advise clients about investments, conducting benchmarking, developing financial models, creating a forecast or plan with the information you obtain, identifying financial status when you evaluate the data, and guiding cost analysis. Your other duties include identifying trends, monitoring variances, consolidating financial data, tracking financial status, and correcting and comparing data to reconcile transactions.