Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

Job Summary

• Supports Commercial Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) for the Retail Profit & Loss (P&L), including recurring forecasting, budgeting, monthly financial close, variance analysis, and performance reporting.
• Prepares and analyzes financial results, Daily Sales forecasts and reporting, scorecards, and other recurring financial reports to monitor business performance and support informed decision-making.
• Analyzes actual results against forecasts, budgets, and prior periods; identifies and investigates variances; and communicates key business drivers, trends, and financial insights to leadership.
• Develops and maintains financial reports, analytical tools, and reporting processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Reconciles financial results across multiple source systems and reporting views to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity.
• Performs ad hoc financial analysis to evaluate business performance, support business decisions, and respond to evolving business needs.
• Partners cross-functionally with Finance, Merchandising, and other business stakeholders to understand business drivers, validate financial results, and translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights.
• Supports continuous improvement initiatives and helps implement process enhancements that strengthen financial reporting, analysis, and decision support
• Independently owns and manages recurring reporting and financial processes, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on time, while proactively identifying opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve existing processes
• Manages multiple priorities and deliverables within financial close and forecasting environment, proactively communicating risks, issues, and changes in timing.

Job Responsibilities

• Develops complex financial models to support management decision-making related to new product development, product portfolio analysis, profitability of new opportunities, capital investments, revenue models, profit margin analysis, and impact of regulatory changes. Defines financial requirements for new products and features. Analyzes and summarizes the division’s financial statements, expenses, and records.
• Develops recommendations for management decision-making.
• Performs moderate to complex financial analysis including conducting research and identifying, designing and implementing applications and tools to fulfill reporting and analysis needs. Runs various scenarios through models and interprets financial impact. Measures financial results against budget and forecast.
• Assists in the development of the long-range financial plans and continuously analyzes operating financial results. Works closely with other departments within Walgreens to ensure that strategic initiatives are achieved.
• May assist in the development of the annual budget and analyzes actual and budgeted figures on an ongoing basis. Creates and maintains detailed budgeting templates.
• With minimal guidance from management, assesses analytical tools and various formats of data availability and researches and builds new programs that allow for various lines of data to be incorporated so financial modeling analysis of multiple program impact becomes more efficient and allows for more in depth analysis and review resulting in improved recommendations and solutions for the business. Where standard tools are insufficient, utilizes statistical analysis software (SAS) to model and analyze data as requested.
• Reviews monthly financial operating results for each assigned business unit, identifying key trends, variances, and areas of improved performance. Works with other departments in Walgreens for account reconciliation.
• Provides information and assistance to management regarding expenditures, purchases and other costs of doing business.
• As requested, answers complex request for proposal (RFP) questions related to new business and client renewals for a variety of different programs. Responsible for ensuring data integrity and accuracy of information provided to RFP questions.
• Performs ad hoc analysis and forecasts for internal management team and external customers.
• Provides guidance and training to associate analysts and analysts on financial modeling, data extraction techniques, budgetary considerations, and recommends best practices on pulling and refining data. As needed provides explanation to team regarding intricate web of data and how assumptions on one program or project may impact other programs or projects that are not specifically in scope during an analysis.

About Walgreens

Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

External Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis or economics or High School Diploma/GED and at least 4 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis or economics.
• Experience with financial analysis, financial modeling, profitability analysis and/or auditing techniques.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting aggressive deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or MBA.
• Experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), including forecasting, budgeting, financial reporting, and variance analysis.
• Experience supporting P&L management, financial close activities, Daily Sales reporting, scorecards, or recurring financial reporting processes.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, data integrity, and financial controls.
• Ability to learn, manage, and independently execute recurring processes while meeting deadlines and maintaining consistent deliverables.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to reconcile results across multiple systems, investigate discrepancies, and identify underlying business drivers.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve reporting processes and analytical tools.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to translate financial results into clear, actionable insights for business partners and leadership.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with experience working with large datasets, developing financial models and reporting tools, and using Excel to analyze and reconcile financial information.
• Experience with financial planning, ERP, and reporting systems, such as Anaplan, SAP, or similar tools, with the ability to learn new systems and data sources quickly.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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