Advance Auto Parts Looking for Finance Manager at Raleigh, NC, United States Full Time

Job Description

Summary: This role will be a business partner to the SVP of the Commercial business, providing financial business support for key strategic, tactical and operational decisions. He/she will work closely with the commercial business leadership team and other areas of business including peer managers to anticipate issues and proactively provide analytical perspective and recommendations to grow the business profitably with integrity.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES may include, but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be:

• Lead the development of business/financial case for specific initiatives and/or capital investments. Examples might include partnering with business leads and other to develop the business case for systems capabilities/IT investments
• Create required proforma and profitability analysis in support of the strategic and national business opportunities.
• Create linkages between the operational and financial KPI’s to allow for real time understanding of the business performance
• Possibly lead a team of financial analysts to develop operational and financial reports for business performance managements, helping create a performance based culture
• Perform post mortem of key investments and strategies to help identify new ideas and or required changes to enable financially sound decisions
• Perform ad-hoc analyses and project support on special projects and initiatives
• Proactively identify tactical opportunities for business units to improve financial results through data analysis and operational insights
• Assists the commercial business and the leadership teams by providing the necessary financial analysis in identifying cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies.
• Conducts financial training to raise the financial acumen of the team members within the merchandising/marketing and retail operation divisions.
• Provides support and assistance where necessary in the design and development of reports on Hyperion, Essbase Add-In, or Microsoft Excel.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint skills
• Strong analytical, organizational, conflict solving and negotiation skills.
• Must be able to work with and apply mathematical concepts to practical situations such as probability and statistical inference.
• Must be able to present information and respond to questions from groups of senior management, department heads, managers, clients and customers.
• Must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited four year college or university is required. Three to five years of retail financial analysis experience required.
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