Sr. Financial Analyst, PRO Sales

Advance Stores Company • Raleigh, NC

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About The Position

The Sr. Financial Analyst provides decision support by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data and forecasting business trends to support Advance Auto Parts’ strategic and operating plans. The role supports initiatives including Customer Acceleration/Transformation, Availability Excellence, and Superior Experience by driving profitable growth through rigorous analysis and insight.

The position provides financial direction and guidance to operating units and senior management, contributes to long-range forecasts and budgets, and produces analyses that inform business cases and investment decisions. It directly supervises Budget/Financial Analyst(s) and provides financial direction and guidance to four retail area Financial Analysts who report to Area Senior Vice Presidents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, or Business, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three to five years of financial and business analysis experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, AS/400, and PeopleSoft skills.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to apply mathematical concepts to practical situations, including probability, statistical inference, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals and technical procedures.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to present information and respond to questions from senior management, department heads, managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.
• Experience working in a retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidelines for standard cost approaches used in business decisions and establish and monitor cost-reduction programs.
• Conduct root-cause and driver analysis, communicate results, and translate them into business insights and actions.
• Provide direction to functional counterparts in operating units and advise operating and senior management on cost determination, inventory valuation, overhead distribution, joint costs, and product pricing.
• Conduct special studies and analyses, such as evaluating work performed in-house versus subcontracted and the cost impact of proposed facilities or processes.
• Identify and investigate issues related to assigned projects, selecting an approach from accepted methodologies or recommended alternatives.
• Define assumptions for quantifying and analyzing investments, acquisitions, or divestitures.
• Participate in developing long-range financial forecasts and related budgets, considering alternative scenarios and economic prospects as appropriate.
• Provide fact-based financial analysis, economic modeling, and ad hoc analysis to support business cases for proposed investments.
• Present verbal and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.
• Partner with internal customers to implement performance-management rhythms.
• Provide appropriate input into test design so results can be relied upon for investment decisions.
• Provide external financial information about competitors and the industry.
• Maintain knowledge of developments in industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory.
• Directly supervise Budget/Financial Analyst(s) and provide guidance and financial direction to four retail area Financial Analysts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior