Sr Financial Analyst, Global Supply Chain & Logistics

Target•Minneapolis, MN

About The Position

A role in Financial Planning & Analysis means belonging to a great team of genuine, diverse, courageous and versatile people who put integrity and ethics at the heart of everything they do. Together, you’ll drive outstanding financial results by enabling and accelerating Target’s strategic execution. You’ll nurture influential partnerships with leaders who value your credibility, thanks to the quality and reliability of your insights. To teams across Target, you’ll bring your skills for analytical rigor, creative problem-solving and sound decision-making. You’ll be an active contributor to cross-functional teams. You’ll rise to the challenge of the dynamic retail industry, bringing innovative solutions that have a direct impact on financial and operational direction-setting, merchandising and capital investments and how to best use our resources. All of your good work will help elevate and maintain Target as one of the world’s most recognized and best-loved retail brands. As a Senior Financial Analyst, Global Supply Chain & Logistics (GSCL) Finance, you’ll oversee the financial performance of Target’s fulfillment center expense. Given Target’s digital sales growth and the increasing role that digital fulfillment is playing in the marketplace, the role is critical to ensure we deliver on the guest experience while ensuring disciplined financial performance and capacity management. Reporting to the Director of Last Mile GSCL Finance, you’ll be supported along the way to influence your partners to drive continued financial success and to provide them with analytical insights of their performance.

Requirements

4-year college degree with equivalent experience (3-6 years) in Finance and/or Operations
Strong technical skill set around modeling and data accessibility/manipulation (SQL knowledge preferred)
Uses analysis to influence with facts and data
Detail oriented with the ability to work on multiple tasks and deliver outcomes
Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
Comfortable developing multiple scenarios to communicate a risk adjusted range of expected financial performance
Willingness to make financial recommendations with a progress over perfection mindset
Ability to work with all levels of management with high level of autonomy, motivation, and self-direction
Willingness to establish and nurture connections across the enterprise to build a network of partners and resources
Natural curiosity to ask questions and look within the data for outliers and connections to improve upon existing tools and processes
Embraces all perspective through empathy, curiosity, and listening

Responsibilities

provide financial support to the VP and Senior Director of the fulfillment center network and all Site Directors within the network.
provide actual performance recaps to Finance and business leaders on a weekly and monthly basis regarding performance of fulfillment centers
own financial routines for fulfillment center expense, inclusive of long-range planning, annual budgeting, and in-year forecasting
partner closely with the fulfillment center leadership and across FP&A to influence the strategic direction of core fulfillment center strategies
build financial tools and models for our field partners that help them advance the business and size productivity improvement impacts
develop ad hoc analytics to explain key business drivers and influence optimal outcomes