FP&A Principal Analyst - Modernization

Overview

This role provides advanced financial and analytical leadership at the Principal Financial Analyst level—serving as the highest-level individual contributor within the Finance organization.

The position partners across Finance to identify and execute opportunities that modernize how Finance plans, forecasts, reports, and analyzes to support decision-making. It also provides dedicated leadership for Finance modernization, driving process simplification, technology enablement, analytics, automation, AI adoption, and capability development across FP&A and Shared Services.

Key focus areas include developing future-state solutions with Finance leaders, improving adoption of planning and reporting technologies, and establishing scalable processes and analytical frameworks that increase organizational capacity, improve effectiveness, and enhance business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to shape priorities, evaluate investments, align financial strategy with enterprise objectives, and support strategic growth initiatives, new business models, customer acquisition, engagement, and lifetime value.
• Build trusted partnerships across Finance and relevant business functions to align priorities, support cross-functional outcomes, and translate data into clear recommendations for senior and executive leaders.
• Define complex business questions, identify emerging needs, determine appropriate data sources, and structure analytical approaches that evaluate financial implications, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Design scalable financial models, business cases, scenario plans, and analytical frameworks that generate actionable insights and can be applied across teams and business areas.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor by establishing FP&A best practices, improving analytical rigor and decision framing, and providing analytical leadership for complex initiatives.
• Coach and mentor junior analysts while using artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to improve how FP&A identifies insights, models scenarios, and supports decisions at scale; operate with a high degree of autonomy by guiding work from concept through implementation.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of financial planning and analysis experience in Accounting or Finance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or a similar field.
• Advanced financial modeling expertise, including scenario modeling and enterprise-level tradeoff analysis.
• Strong business acumen and an understanding of end-to-end processes and their financial implications.
• Proven ability to define ambiguous problems and independently structure analytical solutions.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with a commitment to creating a mutually supportive work environment where people can do their best.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or similar certification.
• Experience supporting enterprise-level or otherwise complex initiatives.
• Experience implementing, administering, optimizing, or governing SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or similar enterprise planning and analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Experience working in the retail industry.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay range: $98,300.00 - $157,400.00 per year
• The organization offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan, and accrued time off.

Pay Transparency

As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, the organization provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine actual salary may include specific skills and experience, geographic location, or other relevant factors.