Financial Planning Analytics Analyst - New York or Cincinnati, OH

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Job description

About

Macy's is proudly America's Department Store. For more than 160 years, Macy's has served generations at every stage of their lives. Customers come to us for fashion, value and celebration. Our Finance team is responsible for maximizing profitability and delivering shareholder value at Macy's.
Do you want to guide the financial future of an iconic brand? As part of Macy's Finance, you'll work with every part of the business to maintain and strengthen our financial position. We're funding constant innovation and evaluating the business impact, developing and managing financial plans, forecasting, and managing multi-year budgets. Sounds like fun, right? If you want to work for a company that's focused on providing you the best experience with a continued focus on your growth and development - join Macy's Finance!

Job Overview

Responsibilities include but are not limited to assisting the ongoing annual, long-range and strategic financial forecasting and planning process for Macy's Inc. Financial Partner to various areas of the organization in budgeting, forecasting, reporting and monthly close process. Provide analytical guidance and oversight to the planning processes for Macy's Inc on Sales, Gross Margin, SG&A, Interest, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and others as needed. Aid with validating, analyzing and summarizing monthly forecasts for Macy's Inc. Work closely with Division and Corporate partners to identify and explain significant variances to plan. Assist in generating reports for business partners, senior management and the Board of Directors. Be a leader in analytics for the Financial Planning Organization. Perform other duties as assigned. Specific areas of focus may be assigned.

Essential Functions

• Provide strategic and detailed analytical modeling that drives decision making for Macy's Inc as it relates to Annual & Long-Range plans and Monthly Forecasting.
• Extract, manipulate and analyze data from various data sources including Onestream, Oracle, SQL, Big Query and other Macy's internal systems to influence and support business strategies.
• Ensure plans are aligned with the strategic initiative values identified and monitored by the Transformation Office and in partnership with Business Partners.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis and financial reporting for senior management.
• Collaborate with key business partners across all Divisions and support People Leader in thought leadership efforts to drive execution of the Polaris Strategy.
• Prepare presentations for executive management.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives for the Finance Organization.
• Regular, dependable attendance & punctuality.

Qualifications and Competencies:

Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university

3-5 years related experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read, write, and interpret instructional documents such as reports and procedure manuals.
• Must have above average mathematical skills, including the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages, and the ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Willingness to ask questions and seek answers to better understand information.
• Strong attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
• Ability to communicate effectively with Senior Management.
• Ability to efficiently evaluate and resolve complex business challenges.
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, interpersonal and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Required.
• Dynamic, curious and passionate about their work.
• Resilient leader who possesses the ability to persevere in demanding situations.