DescriptionWhy choose us?
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!
At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.
The Financial Analyst is a corporate role reporting to the Senior Director of Finance. The position supports financial planning, reporting, forecasting, analysis, and operational decision-making while improving reporting and process quality. This role requires technical finance skills, analytical judgment, business partnership, systems knowledge, and clear communication. The analyst reports financial results, interprets trends, identifies risks and opportunities, and helps the business make informed decisions by highlighting business risks and opportunities. The role also includes building financial models, evaluating data, developing assumptions, and analyzing outcomes.
Main responsibilities:
- Create and automate financial reporting for the supported area, including sales, profitability, expenses, and other key performance measures. Improve reporting by identifying metrics and insights that make business and operational performance easier to understand.
- Support key planning activities, including the annual operating plan, quarterly projections, and recurring forecasts. Based on business needs, the analyst may lead parts of the planning process for the supported business or operational area.
- Prepare ad hoc financial analyses for business-specific needs by defining the approach, developing assumptions, gathering and evaluating data, reviewing results, and recommending actions.
- Use financial and systems expertise to support partners across finance and other business functions.
- Analyze financial trends to identify risks and opportunities, communicate findings to management, and partner with finance and operations teams to explain results and share insights.
- Improve forecasting and reporting processes by finding workflow gaps, streamlining recurring work, and using root cause analysis to explain variances, performance drivers, and process issues.
We are looking for candidates who possess the following
- Strong understanding of finance concepts, practices, procedures, and business operations.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to analyze, manipulate, a