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Food Lion · 6 hours ago

Analyst Finance

Salisbury, NC

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Food Lion is a retail grocery store chain committed to the professional development of its associates. The Analyst Finance role is responsible for end-to-end financial support, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, while guiding financial decisions through analytics and collaboration with various departments.

Retail

Responsibilities

Guide financial decisions through analytics

Provide analytical support and proactively identify, analyze, and interpret business performance drivers and opportunities with business partners

Serve as a consultant to senior executives and management applying technical expertise in solving complex issues and problems

Using trend analysis, provide variance analysis versus Budgets, Forecasts

Root cause analysis to determine drivers for variances

Identify insights and suggest actionable recommendations

Drive short- and long-term financial planning by partnering with different departments

Collects, evaluates, and analyzes financial information submitted by business partners to assist in development of long-term planning, annual budget, quarterly forecast updates, and period/weekly projections

Projects future results for P&L accounts based on current trends/information. Evaluates current, historical, and projected trends to support detailed projections

Ensures business initiatives and savings programs are properly reflected in financial plans

Allocation of budgets/Forecasts at the detailed level by store by departments to support the store financial targets

Enhances store level projections based on trend analysis and business initiatives

Works with business partners to ensure financial plans are submitted timely based on budget/forecast calendar and appropriately loaded to Hyperion Planning

Prepare informative and comprehensive reporting

Prepares periodic financial reporting for brand and U.S. leadership

Prepares Budget/Forecast/LTP reporting for brand and U.S. leadership

Collaborates with Accounting regarding methodology of recording income/expense accounts, as well as analysis and completion of period end results

Fulfills ad hoc reporting requests and queries in an accurate and timely manner (i.e., scorecards, financial models, etc.)

Reports out on business initiatives and savings program as assigned

Qualification

Financial modelingBudgetingForecastingAnalytical thinkingExcelPowerPointBusiness intelligence toolsInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsTeam playerCustomer focusRelationship building