Finance Manager

Walgreens•Deerfield, IL

2d•$100,000 - $175,000

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 advises 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 and support teams to understand business drivers, processes, priorities, and strategic direction. The role leads financial forecasting and budgeting, analyzes variances, supports business reviews and planning, evaluates investments and business cases, and identifies opportunities to improve processes and reporting. It also directly manages team members and provides indirect leadership across client and operational organizations. Walgreens serves customers and patients through approximately 8,500 stores across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, as well as omni-channel platforms. The company has approximately 220,000 team members.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis, or economics; OR a high school diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in an analytical role in those fields.
At least 2 years of experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve issues and problems.
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, organize, track details, and meet deadlines across multiple projects with varying completion dates.
Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills, such as using SUM, setting borders and column widths, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers, and print scaling.
Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint skills, such as applying themes, formatting character spacing, inserting pictures, changing slide layouts and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart styles, and formatting fonts.
Intermediate Microsoft Word skills, such as inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers, and tables, and adjusting table columns.

Responsibilities

Partner with business management to understand key business drivers, processes, priorities, and future strategic direction.
Collaborate with business management and support teams to execute work, deliver customer value, and achieve positive business results.
Develop a cross-functional team approach and provide financial management support to all levels of the business team.
Lead financial forecasts and budgets, identify and quantify risks and opportunities, and facilitate agreement on operational metrics and inputs.
Analyze variances against plans, forecasts, and prior periods, and prepare budget and forecast presentations and documentation.
Address issues with appropriate teams and develop action plans.
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 key initiatives.
Identify and analyze investments and develop business cases to substantiate project rationale.
Directly manage team members, including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing them; provide indirect leadership across client and operational organizations, including helping develop, train, and assign work and projects.
Participate in medium-term and strategic planning for the assigned business area.