What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Financial Analyst position at The Connors Group?
GENERAL PURPOSE :
The Senior Analyst, Store Finance will oversee all Capital spend for Store Operations and Loss Prevention. This person will manage critical financial processes like month-end close, forecast, budget, 5-year plan and perform other ad-hoc analysis and reporting, as needed. In addition, the role will manage the Capital Expenditure Request process for all capital projects, frequently interacting with Stores Leadership and Executives, the Accounting team, and other Business Partners.
This person will report to the Director of Store Finance.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :
- Oversee Capital Processes for Store Operations and Loss Prevention teams
- Support annual budget and 5 Year Planning processes for all Store capital spend across existing stores, new stores and G&A capital. Partner with Stores Leadership and Executives on the development of our Capital projections and create materials to facilitate discussions and explain variances. Submit final plans into Hyperion.
- Prepare monthly capital forecast summaries for monthly meetings with Stores Leadership. Share information with Corporate FP&A and submit forecasts into Hyperion
- Develop and present variance to budget and forecast explanations to Stores Leadership and Executives at month-end, quarter-end, and year-end periods.
- Manage Capital Expenditure Request (CER) process for all Store Operations and Loss Prevention Capital Projects
- Partner with capital project owners and finance team partners to ensure CERs are thoroughly reviewed and analyzed.
- Train business partners on CER process and best practices as needed in order to ensure they are ready for CER review meetings (with Accounting, Stores Leadership, and Executives).
- Lead weekly meetings with the Accounting team to present new CERs, ensuring relevant stakeholders are invited to each meeting. Recap takeaways and connect the dots across projects and discussions.
- Utilize K2 system for formal CER approval process. Maintain the system, be the "source of truth" for approval process status, and engage with Stores Leadership and Executives and other Business Partners to ensure CERs are approved in K2 in a prompt fashion
- Lead and provide support for other ad hoc analysis and reporting as needed.
- Proactively engage with ad-hoc analysis and reporting requests as needed. Ad-hoc request range from quick day-of turns to weeks-long project work.
- Coordinate workplans with manager and Store Finance Leadership to ensure alignment on expectations, deliverable effectiveness, and accuracy of material before distributing more broadly.
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