Senior Financial Analyst in Boston, MA
Job title: Senior Financial Analyst in Boston, MA at Chewy
Company: Chewy
Job description: Our Opportunity:We at Chewy are seeking a highly motivated, analytical, and entrepreneurial Senior Financial Analyst to join our Tech Finance team, who will partner with our Technology Leadership Team to drive business results, evaluate Technology investment opportunities, interface with other business, operations, and senior finance leaders, and develop business performance reporting and analytics! This candidate will need to be a detail-oriented self-starter with experience working in an ambiguous environment, preferably within a technology organization, including rolling up their sleeves to complete complex business analyses and operating at depth. Additionally, this candidate will be responsible for supporting the corporate budgeting, forecasting, and initiative prioritization, while also innovating to refine financial models and strategic goals to incorporate new learnings and new data.What You'll Do:
- Partner with the Technology team to develop business and finance plans, determine key input and output metrics, and support the business in creating profitability analyses and strategic analyses to evaluate key investments.
- Assist with the preparation and consolidation of the Technology budget, forecast, and long-term outlook, including identifying and quantifying the risks and opportunities faced by the business.
- Oversee month-end close process and manage/track financial performance against KPI's, seasonal financial plans, and annual budget.
- Support monthly financial business reviews, including reviewing results vs. plan, forecasting for management meetings, creating future output guidance to leadership, and establishing plans with C-suite to address disconnects between actuals and plan.
- Support the creation of financial models (monthly forecasting, NPV, ROI, payback, etc.) and maintain and enhance existing financial models and supporting schedules monthly, driving improvements to budgeting and forecasting accuracy.
- Conduct complex ad-hoc analyses, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analyses, to drive decision-making for Technology initiatives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with business partners (e.g., Procurement, HR, TA, Finance, Accounting, etc.) to enhance forecasting accuracy and to improve the budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Extract and analyze data from central databases using Hyperion and Tableau.
- BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Management, or Economics
- 3+ years of related experience
- Strategy consulting firm experience (BCG, Bain, McKinsey) a plus
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills and outstanding attention to detail
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, key performance indicators, and financial analysis
- Strong data visualization skills (Excel, Tableau, etc.)
- Results-oriented mentality, highly upbeat, multifaceted individual with hands-on mentality
- The ability to drill down to the details and step back to understand the big picture
- Entrepreneurial mindset - ability to operate and drive results as a self-starter
- Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
- Strong interpersonal skills - ability to distill and convey complex information messages clearly and succinctly
- Understanding of GAAP, financial statements, and financial modeling
- The position may require travel
- Previous technology experience
- Experience with Hyperion SmartView, Oracle ERP, Tableau
- Strong understanding of software capitalization policies