Responsibilities:

• Partners with finance peers, regional business leadership, and global finance to support cohesive and efficient business processes in stores and regional programs.
• Coordinates financial services and provides store consultation, goal setting, reporting, and business process improvement recommendations.
• Supports regional and store leadership with quarterly business reviews.
• Performs revenue and marketplace analytics, generating reports / information to help stores and teams identify areas of opportunity.
• Assists stores and teams in driving optimized competitive performance.
• Partners with key stakeholders to successfully open new locations, gauge performance against budgets and forecasts, and monitor profitability in the early stages of operations.
• Partners with regional product teams to identify and help resolve store performance and program issues.
• Assists in efforts to develop and enhance data pipelines, workflows, and queries based on large data sets.
• Supports cross-functional efforts to design, develop, and deliver Team Member financial acumen training.

Skills:

• Demonstrates a working knowledge of data available or needed by the wider business for more complex or comparative analyses.
• Understands team’s function and how it supports WFM’s goals.
• Capable of working with a variety of data sources.
• Capable of handling large data sets in analyses through the use of additional tools.
• Understands the basics of test and control comparison and how to provide insight through basic statistical measures such as hypothesis testing.
• Understands various company and departmental processes and procedures; understands applicable Retail Operations SOPs.
• Communicates structured information in a clear, concise, and organized fashion.
• Collaborates with others to achieve objectives and ensure information flow.
• Tailors communication approach to specific situations and audiences.
• Independently takes action, controls own work, and makes work-related decisions.
• Takes initiative and demonstrates a strong desire to reach challenging goals and pursue excellence.
• Contributes personal ideas and knowledge to accomplish work.
• Applies existing rules and procedures to make decisions and judgments.
• Gathers and analyzes critical information from a variety of sources to understand problems.
• Applies accurate logic and common sense in making decisions.
• Possesses clear understanding of WFM’s and supported stores / regions business models and objectives.
• Understands the WFM product mix, supply base and retail operations.