Overview
This role serves as the highest-level individual contributor within the Finance organization. The Principal Financial Analyst provides advanced financial and analytical leadership, identifying ambiguous opportunities, structuring analytical approaches, and influencing outcomes across senior stakeholders and business partners.
The position partners with finance and business leaders to shape functional and divisional financial strategies, lead enterprise planning, forecasting, and management reporting processes, and evaluate cross-divisional tradeoffs. Advanced modeling and financial expertise support complex business decisions and help ensure consistent, accurate, and insightful financial reporting, long-range planning, and executive decision support.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to business leaders by shaping priorities, influencing investment decisions, and aligning financial strategy with enterprise objectives
- Build trusted partnerships across Finance and relevant business functions to influence decision-making, align priorities, and drive cross-functional outcomes
- Define and structure complex, high-impact business problems within an area of responsibility
- Design scalable financial models and analytical frameworks leveraged across teams and business areas
- Lead complex analyses to evaluate tradeoffs, risks, and financial implications
- Translate data into clear recommendations for senior and executive leadership to influence and shape decision-making
- Identify emerging business questions and proactively determine what analysis is needed, how it should be structured, and where data should be sourced
- Establish best practices for financial modeling, scenario planning, and analytical rigor across FP&A
- Act as a thought leader and subject matter expert, elevating the quality and consistency of decision support within supported business functions and teams
- Serve as the de facto analytical leader on complex initiatives
- Support the development and execution of strategic growth initiatives through partnership, investment evaluation, and assessment of new business models tied to customer acquisition, engagement, and lifetime value
- Build financial models, create business cases, and analyze data to drive actionable insights for leadership decisions
- Coach and mentor junior analysts
- Prioritize and frame work across teams rather than executing isolated analyses
- Lead through influence by setting standards for analytical rigor, storytelling, and decision framing
- Leverage AI and advanced analytics to redefine how FP&A identifies insights, models scenarios, and supports decision-making at scale
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy: define problems, set the analytical approach, and drive work from concept to implementation
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of financial planning and analysis experience in Accounting/Finance
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or similar
- Advanced financial modeling expertise, including scenario modeling and enterprise-level tradeoff analysis
- Strong business acumen with understanding of end-to-end processes and their financial implications
- Proven ability to define ambiguous problems and independently structure analytical solutions
- Advanced PC experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or similar certification
- Experience supporting enterprise or complex initiatives
- Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP, and/or equivalent planning and ERP systems
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Experience working in the retail industry
Compensation & Benefits
- Pay range: $98,300.00 - $157,400.00 per year
- Regular employee discount
- Access to health benefits
- Retirement savings plan
- Accrued time off
Location
Pay range and eligibility may be governed by applicable pay transparency requirements for the location where the role may be hired. Factors used to determine actual salary may include skills and experience, geographic location, and other relevant factors.