Finance Manager

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Bellevue, WA

Finance Manager for Chewy's loyalty membership program, focusing on financial strategy, reporting, forecasting, and growth opportunity analysis. This role partners with various teams including product, pricing, operations, sales, marketing, and engineering to drive business decisions and achieve financial objectives. It involves building advanced reporting and forecasting functions from scratch and analyzing new growth opportunities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work cross-functionally with the broader Chewy finance team, and the analytics, merchandising, product, marketing, tech, and accounting teams to fully understand the business, its customers, and overall operations in order to develop new mechanisms and efficient processes
  2. Effectively manage numerous projects at a given time in a fast-paced environment
  3. Perform modeling and analytics required to synthesize large sets of data and produce concise outputs to convey recommendations and/or conclusions to leadership
  4. Extract and analyze data from central databases using SQL, Hyperion/Oracle, and Tableau
  5. Improve/scale processes and throughput of reporting and cadence activities via automation and adopting new tools (i.e. AI)

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Analytics, Accounting, or similar required (or MBA)
  • 5+ years of relevant experience (Corporate/Strategic Finance, Business Analytics, Financial Analysis, Ops/Supply Chain) or 3+ years for MBA candidates
  • Strong analytical and modeling skills
  • experience in supporting business case development, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
  • Advanced Excel skill (i.e., VLOOKUP/Index Match, SUMIFS, pivot tables, etc.)
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to think creatively, self-start, work independently, deal with ambiguity, and meet tight deadlines / prioritize changing workloads
  • Results-oriented mentality, highly energetic, dynamic individual with a hands-on mentality
  • Experience with SQL or other database query tools

Nice to have

  • understanding of retail, ecommerce, or membership business models

What the JD emphasized

  • building advanced reporting and forecasting functions from the ground up
  • analyzing and evaluating new growth opportunities
  • strong practical knowledge of financial statements
  • using data to make and drive decisions
  • self-starter mentality
  • outstanding communication
  • drive projects independently
  • building from the ground up
  • deal with ambiguity
  • meet tight deadlines / prioritize changing workloads