What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Financial Analyst (Hybrid) position at Belk?
The Senior Financial Analyst provides accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting and operational analysis, to identify and communicate expense savings opportunities, and to identify and implement process improvement opportunities both within the Financial Planning Department and throughout the organization.
Essential Functions:
- Become a subject matter expert for assigned areas of responsibility
- Develop and maintain expense forecasting models / reports for areas of responsibility
- Partner with business partners to understand current state of business & upcoming risks and opportunities
- Work with Accounting Department & Expense Managers to understand monthly expense variances
- Act as lead budget analyst for areas of responsibility, includes developing expense Guidelines, creating budget bridges, analyzing Manager Plans (& building manager plan review decks), and finalizing annual budgets
- Develop and maintain Executive level reporting and communication of key drivers
- Analyze business impacts of key decisions
- Identify, quantify, and assist in implementing expense savings ideas
- Perform ad hoc analysis on all areas of the business as requested by the Director of FP&A, VP of Finance and CFO
- Identify process improvements within the Financial Planning Department, including but not limited to report reduction, process automation, improved use of technology, improved communication and data hand-off, and documentation of key assumptions
Education:
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience
- MBA preferred
Work Experience:
- 3-6 years of financial analysis experience with a proven track record of career growth, preferably FP&A (retail a plus)
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent analytical, communication, problem solving, and reasoning skills
- Ability to work well within a team environment as well as independently as the situation demands
- Results oriented, has high standards
- Agile - willingness to learn and embrace change
- Creative – ability to take complex / unprecedented problem and propose solutions
- Exhibits high sense of urgency
- Highly organized, attention to detail
- Ability to produce high quality results in an ever changing, demanding environment
- Ability to manage multiple, conflicting priorities, without sacrificing quality of results
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (specifically Excel and PowerPoint)
- Ability to use query tools and databases (Workday Financials a plus)
- Ability to design and implement process improvements.
- Demonstrated ability to create complex financial models
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