Senior Financial Analyst

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will maintain accurate accounting while improving company profitability through leading value-added analysis, driving cross-functional collaboration and building business partnerships.

What You’ll Do

• Active contributor in weekly forecasting, annual budgeting, and long-range planning for capital and expense expenditures
• Drive the month-end close process, including recording advanced journal entries, preparing month-end reporting and performing account reconciliations
• Aggregate and summarize data using technical tools, accounting principles and relevant business knowledge
• Identify and communicate trends, variances and their underlying drivers
• Ensure data integrity before presentation of findings and compile relevant findings for presentation
• Systematically identify appropriate variables, relevant assumptions and key performance metrics
• Develop sensitivity analysis, rate versus mix or correlation analysis
• Develop new complex reporting, peer review and report summaries
• Review contracts and derive proper accounting treatment
• Determine capital versus expense
• Assist with continuous improvement of accounting processes, systems, and reporting
• Understand basic technical accounting and financial reporting issues, document conclusions and recommend accounting treatment to ensure internal and external reporting requirements are met
• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or other relevant field
• Advanced knowledge of Google Suite, Microsoft programs, and other Financial Software programs
• Excellent accounting, budgeting and forecasting skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Critical thinking, attention to detail, time management and collaboration skills
• Adept multitasker

Preferred

• 2+ years of experience in Accounting or Finance
• CPA or MBA

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section
• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance as set by the company 
• Ability to work at least 8 hours per day, occasionally longer when necessary to meet business needs, 5 days per week
• Ability to comply with dress code requirements
• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ability to give direction and receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel
• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others
• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs
• Perform work in accordance with the Physical/Cognitive Requirements section

Physical/Cognitive Requirements 

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units
• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner
• Ability to comply with health and safety standards