Sr. Financial Analyst

Main Responsibilities

• Owns and supports recurring Supply Chain FP&A consolidation reporting processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and actionable financial reporting across distribution center and corporate operations.
• Uses experience to drive strategic financial analysis and serves as a subject matter expert within the group, including training and developing other team members.
• Prepares and reviews accurate and timely financial and business analyses, research, forecasts, and expense performance reporting.
• Develops advanced ad hoc financial analyses to explain performance drivers, identify business risks and opportunities, and support leadership decision-making.
• Develops, deploys, and maintains complex data models, sourcing data from various systems within the company.
• Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains production Power BI dashboards and reporting tools that create measurable business value and improve visibility to key financial and operational metrics.
• Drives reporting automation and process improvement using Albertsons-enabled tools such as Power BI, Excel/VBA, SQL, Power Query, Google BigQuery, or similar approved technologies.
• Partners with Finance, Operations, and technical teams to convert manual reporting processes into scalable, repeatable, and controlled reporting solutions.
• Partners with other departments in the preparation of analyses and identification of improvement opportunities that can provide positive results to the bottom line.
• Ledespecial financial and business-related studies as needed to support project objectives.
• Mentors and trains other analysts on reports, systems, dashboard development, automation practices, and financial process flow.
• Provides insights into business performance and translates complex data into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Develops, interprets, analyzes, and implements complex business strategies.
• Completes a variety of financial evaluation, research, and analysis activities requiring the compilation of data and information from a variety of internal and external sources.

Requirements

• 4-year college degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in financial analysis.
• Leadership (either supervisory or mentoring) experience preferred.
• In-depth knowledge and experience with Power BI, SQL, Google BigQuery, Power Query, Excel/VBA, and other analytical or reporting automation tools.
• Demonstrated ability to develop production-level dashboards, recurring reporting packages, data models, and automated reporting solutions.
• Strong understanding of FP&A processes, including forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, consolidation reporting, and financial performance reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills to work effectively with associates at all levels of the company and in the business community.
• Strong Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, data extraction, data transformation, and analytical modeling skills.
• Possesses excellent research, analysis, problem-solving, and business translation skills.

Qualifications

• High degree of initiative, innovation mindset, intellectual curiosity, and results orientation.
• Must excel in a fast-paced, high-volume production operation with tight deadlines and high customer service expectations.
• Excellent project management and resource prioritization skills, with the ability to develop realistic timelines and deliver results.
• Travel Requirements: Less than 10%