Finance Manager, US BEATS Finance

Overview

The US Business, Electronics, Automotive, and Technology Solutions (BEATS) organization is seeking a talented Finance Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to play a critical leadership role by partnering with the category leader to influence strategic decisions in a multi‑billion dollar business. This role is highly visible and requires strong controllership, thought leadership, sound business judgment, and proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across the Stores organization.

We are looking for a self‑starter with effective business partnership experience and proven abilities to manage complex projects, dive deep into details, and translate financial insights into actionable business strategies. This person will partner with leaders across operations, retail category leaders, merchandising and advertising, and marketing teams to provide strategic direction, tactical execution, and decision support.

This role offers the chance to make a substantial impact on our organization's financial performance. The ideal candidate will thrive in our fast‑paced, innovative culture and be passionate about driving financial excellence in the retail technology sector.

• Serve as a key Finance partner working directly with management and other internal stakeholders to influence business decisions through effective verbal and written communication, data‑driven analysis and modeling, and presentation of recommended actions and alternatives.
• Contribute to business decisions by providing insightful analysis and methodical consideration for the end‑to‑end impact to systems, financial controls and ongoing support requirements.

• Manage the annual financial planning and quarterly budgeting exercises by providing accurate, complete, and timely forecasts.
• Drive the core financial processes for the vendor relationship including Annual Operating Plans, long‑range strategic plan and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews — coordinating with stakeholders in a number of markets globally.

• Perform financial reporting, ad‑hoc business analyses, and financial modeling using a broad range of tools including Excel.
• Complete complex business modeling and analysis to drive revenue growth, identify operating improvements, deep‑dive on cost structures and analyze business opportunities/investments (ROI/NPV).
• Perform root cause analysis and uncover core issues using data to improve and create new measures for financial performance.

• Facilitate financial review meetings and Business reviews with cross‑functional teams and business leaders to ensure effective finance, controllership, and cost management, with data analysis and follow‑through on actionable items.

• Identify opportunities and drive automation in existing manual processes, working with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key data is timely, accurate, and automated.
• Develop, recommend, and implement policies and programs that guide the organization in improving its profitability and managing financial and compliance risks.

• 5+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science).
• 5+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analysis experience.
• 5+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision‑making experience.
• 5+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience.

• MBA, or CPA.
• Knowledge of SQL/ETL.
• Experience working with large‑scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).
• Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results.

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