Senior Financial Analyst, Store Operations Finance

Your Impact

The Senior Financial Analyst serves as a financial steward in the organization by collaborating with business partners in core business functions across the Company. The Senior Analyst must be able to work effectively within a matrixed organization and demonstrate self-leadership and change agility, as well as the ability to influence and interact with various s of the organization. They will partner with the business to drive plan through operational levers, provide performance reporting, and manage the forecast.

What You Will Do

• Facilitates the financial forecasting and planning processes with functional partners and business units that result in quarterly forecast updates, annual plans, and long-range plans; provides business performance reporting and commentary.
• Supports financial modeling and business analytics to address P&L queries.
• Supports the development of expense plans using agreed upon volume, rate, growth, and transportation cost assumptions; troubleshoot questions and reconciliations. Coordinate with data owners to formulate answers.
• Collaborates across the business and with peers to provide root cause analysis and actionable insights based on financial and non-financial data to functional partners and business units.
• Communicates financial and non-financial insights to leaders by preparing analyses using multiple data sources; identify and proactively source necessary inputs for analysis; support operational and financial storytelling.
• Analyzes forecast and business case accuracy for root causes issues and apply these learning to future reports; translates findings into clear, understandable themes; identifying complete, consistent, and actionable insights and recommendations.
• Develops business cases for key initiatives and major programs by creating robust financial models tied to a program's (or initiative's) strategic narrative; identifying risks to the organization and engaging the business owner in risk mitigation and trade-offs; identifying and measuring key trigger points (metrics) that provide insight into an initiative's success (leading and final indicators).
• Applies solid knowledge of financial and business analytics principles to all deliverables; leverages an understanding of policies, data, and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; identifies, recommends, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• 3 years of experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting or related experience
• Experience in structuring and writing formal documents, developing and delivering group presentations, project planning, and/or cross-functional collaboration
• Experience with financial forecasting or analytic modeling and report automation
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

• Master's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• 6 years of experience in finance or analytical role with a public company, public accounting or related experience
• Experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Corporate Accounting, Supply Chain Finance or related field
• Experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, Adobe, Alteryx, KnimeStrong
• Experience with tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, Superset, MicroStrategy, Qlik, etc.
• Experience with SQL and familiarity of enterprise grade environment (Teradata, Hadoop, Presto)
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) based systems, multi-dimensional databases, such as TM1, Hyperion or Essbase
• Experience with business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, Teradata, SSIS, Svr.)