Sr.Analyst - Merchandising and Commercial Finance

Summary of Job Purpose

The Senior Finance Analyst will partner with the Merchandising team to deliver actionable financial insights that drive growth, optimize margins, and enhance overall business performance. Leveraging Volume, Sales, COGS, and Gross Profit data across product categories, this role will streamline reporting, uncover key trends, and support data-driven decision‑making. The analyst will collaborate closely with the US Broadline Finance team to provide insights into Gross Profit performance and margin drivers resulting from merchandising initiatives.

Financial Insights & Analysis

• Partner with Merchandising leaders to provide detailed financial analysis across product categories, focusing on Volume, Sales, COGS, and Gross Profit.
• Conduct ad‑hoc analyses of product volume and gross profit, including year‑over‑year performance comparisons.
• Develop and maintain reporting dashboards and KPIs to measure performance and identify trends.
• Translate large datasets (using data modeling and analytics) into clear, concise insights and communicate findings effectively to stakeholders.

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the Merchandising team in the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), budgeting, and monthly/quarterly business review processes.
• Identify and quantify growth, margin, and efficiency opportunities.
• Analyze key drivers of variances versus budget, forecast, and prior year results.
• Ensure the financial impact of key initiatives is accurately reflected in forecasts and the annual profit plan.

Business Partnership

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure departmental understanding of financial forecasts and the drivers behind them.
• Work with Merchandising and Commercial leaders to identify margin improvement opportunities and support decision‑making with robust financial modeling.
• Provide guidance on the financial implications of strategic and operational initiatives.

• BA or an equivalent combination of education and experience (5+ years) sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• Minimum at least 5 years of work experience in a corporate setting, with emphasis on areas such as reporting development, financial planning and analysis, business analytics, and financial modeling.
• Strong commercial focus, with exposure to multiple business/functions and excellent business partnering skills.

• Visual Basic (VB) experience in Excel.
• Experience with data visualization software (Tableau).

• High business acumen with strong finance background.
• Self‑starter, highly motivated to improve business processes.
• Works productively across the enterprise and partners with others to achieve shared goals.
• Speaks and acts with complete honesty and trustworthiness.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

• This position can be performed from the corporate facility.
• Must be able to do limited travel to Sysco facilities or operating companies.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

NOTICE:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the environment and level of work being performed by this job. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only tasks to be performed by the employee in this job. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other job related duties requested by his or her supervisor.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description supersedes prior job descriptions.