The Sr Financial Analyst will contribute to the company's success through providing financial and analytic partnership and deliverables to their assigned operational areas.
• Build ROI/ business models (ST & LT) for major capital expenditures, projects, ventures, promotions
• Analyze profitability for key areas of assigned operational area
• Provide proactive variance analyses
• Produce proformas and post reviews/ measurement for key initiatives
Business Analytics
• Develop & deliver ad-hoc decision support (financial data in addition to operational data)
• Set up and measure test and learns, as appropriate for assigned operational area
• Create, provide, and partner on:
‒ descriptive analytics & exploratory data analytics – “What”
‒ diagnostic analytics – “Why”
‒ predictive analytics – “What if”
‒ prescriptive analytics – “Next best action”
Financial Operating Planning
• Produce assigned deliverables for the annual financial operating plan (as required for assigned operational area) with driverbased targets; guide partner through process and ensure understanding and alignment on all budget submissions
• Deliver single and “rest of year” financial forecasting
Managing & Reporting Business Performance
• Deliver periodic business reviews
• Prepare presentations, schedules & required support (including KPIs and Scorecards)
• Do competitive benchmarking, macro-environment and market share/ growth analyses as required
Strategic Planning
• Working with assigned operational area, provide the financial view for the longer term (3-5 year) planning process
• Model financial outcomes of the strategies
Data & Systems
• Provide data sourcing, wrangling, querying & modeling for discovery analytics
• Develop standardized, self-service performance reporting
• Build requirements & validate production ready metrics and reports
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Analytics, or similar quantitative field of study
• 3+ years of progressive Finance experience. Prior FP&A experience at a large company ($1B+ Sales) preferred.
• Experience working in Microsoft tools (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint & Power BI)
• Prior experience in retail, wholesale, distribution and/ or consumer packaged goods is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to proactively manage the message & expectations (all levels).
• High accountability that delivers on commitments.
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