Finance Manager

Walgreens•Deerfield, IL

About The Position

The Finance Manager provides financial expertise, business support, and oversight for a designated business area to help achieve key objectives. The role guides management on financial matters and decisions, manages daily financial inquiries, and contributes to business priorities through joint issue identification, analysis, and resolution. The Finance Manager partners with business management to understand business drivers, processes, priorities, and strategic direction. The role supports financial planning and reporting, analyzes results, develops business cases, and identifies opportunities to improve processes. It also directly manages team members and provides indirect leadership across client and operational organizations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis, or economics; alternatively, a high school diploma/GED and at least 5 years of such experience.
At least 2 years of experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve them.
At least 2 years of experience applying analytics principles, such as statistics, mathematics, operations research, business management, economics, or finance.
At least 2 years of project management experience, including planning, organizing, and managing resources to complete project goals and objectives.
Experience working as the financial liaison on a business team.
At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership, and/or cross-functional team leadership.
Willingness to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes, within state and out of state.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or MBA.
Experience using time-management skills to prioritize and organize work, track details, and meet deadlines across multiple projects with varying completion dates.
Intermediate-level Microsoft Excel skills.
Intermediate-level Microsoft PowerPoint skills.
Intermediate-level Microsoft Word skills.

Responsibilities

Partner with business management to understand business drivers, processes, priorities, and strategic direction.
Collaborate with business management and support teams to promote effective execution, customer value, and positive business results.
Provide financial management support across all levels of the business team and foster a cross-functional approach.
Lead preparation of financial forecasts and budgets, including identification and quantification of risks and opportunities and agreement on operational metrics and inputs.
Analyze variances against plans, forecasts, and prior periods; prepare budget and forecast presentations and documentation.
Address issues with appropriate teams and develop plans of action.
Identify opportunities to improve processes and practices, and work with business and functional teams to develop consistent management reporting and processes.
Support monthly reviews and periodic business planning by evaluating financial and operational results, monitoring data, and contributing to initiatives.
Evaluate and analyze investments and support project rationale through business case development.
Directly manage team members, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing them; provide indirect leadership across client and operational organizations, including supporting training and assignment of work and projects.
Participate in medium-term and strategic planning for the assigned business area.