Sr. Financial Analyst - Sprouts Farmers Market

Overview:

This position reports into the FP&A group and will provide direct support for the Store Operations team. In this role, you will provide analysis to stakeholders in both FP&A and Store Operations, helping guide strategic decisions and drive financial performance. You will partner with your team to create plans and monthly forecasts that accurately reflect the state of the business and provide a meaningful financial benchmark. You will provide ad hoc decision-making support for strategic initiatives and special projects. This position requires a high level of detail and ability to understand and proactively identify anomalies, communicating findings to key stakeholders accurately and timely. This also requires a team member that is self-motivated and reliable, with a thorough understanding of financial procedures and analysis.

 

Flexible Hybrid Schedule! 

Essential Functions:

 

Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting

• Owns and influences the financial planning process for long-range financial planning, annual budgets, and quarterly forecasts for the Store Operations team
• Builds financial models to support accurate planning and influence decision making
• Supports P&L forecast processes and highlights key business drivers, risk and opportunities for business partners

Analysis

• Assists in the development, analysis, and presentation of key strategic initiative business cases, including identifying potential downstream implications within the business
• Analyze and articulate the key financial drivers of Sprouts Store Operations to provide a deeper understanding of the business to leadership; provide analyses and clear recommendations to help drive toward our company financial goals
• Support the planning and implementation of key Strategic Initiatives
• Run variance analysis and trending to identify areas of opportunity within store performance

Reporting

• Generate and proactively communicate weekly & monthly reporting on key business metrics for department leadership
• Partner with the business to understand variances to forecast / budget, understand and relay ongoing implications, highlighting risks and opportunities
• Able to build new reports that are sustainable to maintain & update and simplifies complex topics/measurements into user friendly outputs
• Able to build new reports that are sustainable to maintain & update and simplifies complex topics/measurements into user friendly outputs
• Leverage Power BI, Workday, Adaptive, SharePoint, and other technology to identify opportunities and incorporate reporting automation in recurring reporting and KPI communication to business partners
• Coaches teammates on execution of process improvements, assisting junior peers in identifying opportunities to streamline existing processes

Additional Responsibilities

• Acts as Subject Matter Expert for Business Partners on financial guidance needs
• Actively participate the training & development of analysts within work area
• Able to summarize complex topics and effectively communicate through presentation or simple visuals for executive leadership

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Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Finance / Accounting, preferably supporting Store Operations
• Comfortable working in a fast-pace environment and able to manage competing priorities and deadlines within the team
• Strong ability to communicate timely and effectively with peers, and all levels of Finance and Business Partner leadership
• Self-directed and possesses a high level of confidence in business acumen and financial analysis to ensure accurate and informative reporting for senior executive leadership
• Experience with budgeting, planning, modeling, and forecasting systems
• Knowledge of accounting principles and practices, and the analysis and reporting of financial data and statements
• Grocery or Retail experience is preferred
• Owns continued self-development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Expert in Microsoft Office Suite, primarily Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience in Adaptive, Workday, and PowerBI is preferred 

Benefits:

In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!

Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:

• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays

Get Paid Every Day!

 

Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free.  We offer DailyPay so you don’t have to wait for payday to access the money you’ve already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you’ve made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.

 

 You can learn more by visiting https://www.dailypay.com/partners/sprouts-farmers-market/.

Why Sprouts:

Grow with us!

If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting.  Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.

 

 

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

 

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