Senior Financial Analyst

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.
The primary purpose of this role is to support the mission of 7-Eleven's Store Support Departments, primarily Marketing, through financial analysis, advisory, and project management. Specifically, the Senior Financial Analyst will assist with tracking and analyzing operating expense, capital expense, and marketing investment versus the annual budget and monthly forecast. Additionally, the analyst will support ongoing reforecasting and month-end close, including consolidating accruals and expense reclasses. The Senior Financial Analyst will be in a high visibility position and will collaborate with executives as well as with all other levels of the organization. The successful analyst will quickly become a subject matter expert across their assigned portfolio of departments and initiatives, providing accurate, timely, detailed, and actionable financial analyses.
Consolidate actual spend metrics, monitoring spend versus budget and recommending corrective actions
Provide financial advisory services to cross-functional teams and contribute to strategy determination discussions
Partner with Marketing leadership to develop annual budgets and forecasts for media, loyalty, digital, and brand
Measure marketing performance using financial and operational metrics, including return on marketing investment, incremental sales and margin
Develop recurring dashboards and post-investment analyses that compare actual results with plans, identify key performance drivers, and recommend actions to improve spend effectiveness and profitability
Perform financial and accounting analysis with intention of optimizing reporting accuracy and integrity
Support monthly forecast, cumulative spend, month-end accrual, and month-end reclass processes
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Bachelor's/ 4 Year Degree
Required: 3+ years of related analytical experience
Preferred: Experience supporting marketing finance
Required: Verifiable & Advanced Excel modeling, large dataset manipulation, and visualization skillsets
Entrepreneurial mindset: take ownership of your role and contributions; think like an executive or corporate investor; possess team mentality, can-do work ethic, and showcase integrity in all situations
Executive presence and ability to build rapport and pursue strong working relationships with all stakeholders
Ability to work in a cross-functional environment while balancing multiple projects, tasks, and ad hoc requests
If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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