Operations Finance Manager

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Mount Juliet, TN

Finance Manager role at a fulfillment center, focusing on financial leadership, business insight, reporting, analysis, and continuous improvement in operations, supply chain, accounting, and finance. Responsibilities include managing variable labor planning, supporting strategic planning, overseeing monthly close, and supporting capital planning. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or IS, 5+ years of experience, and strong analytical and communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deliver business insight, reporting, and analysis to the General Manager and their management team as well as the Sr. Director of Operations & Director of Finance
  2. Contribute to the strategic planning, target setting, and annual planning processes, and perform risk and opportunities analyses to support resource allocations
  3. Manage the planning process for variable labor within the fulfillment center, ensuring Chewy can exceed customer expectations at the lowest possible cost
  4. Oversee the FC’s monthly close process, ensuring books and records are accurately maintained following Chewy’s policies and procedures
  5. Support Capital Planning process, including financial analysis, cost/benefit tracking, and business case development

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or Information Systems
  • 5+ years of related experience (Operations, Finance, logistics)
  • Fulfillment, distribution center, industrial manufacturing, or operations experience
  • Strong analytical and modeling skills
  • Experience in supporting business case development, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Advanced MS Office Suite skills
  • Proficiency in Excel
  • Ability to think creatively
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Ability to solve problems given limited resources and time
  • Strong work ethic
  • Adherence to deadlines
  • Comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities

Nice to have

  • MBA/CPA
  • Experience with financial systems (SAP, Hyperion, NAV, Oracle)
  • Advanced skills with relational databases (e.g., Access, SQL)
  • Working knowledge of Visual Basic
  • Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, MicroStrategy)

What the JD emphasized

  • firm grasp of finance
  • operations
  • financial analysis
  • forecasting
  • budgeting
  • variance analysis
  • Excel
  • work independently
  • solve problems given limited resources and time
  • adhere to deadlines
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities