Senior Analyst, Retail Job Description
Senior analyst, retail
provides sound data mining and profiling techniques, analytical and statistical methodologies in order to provide fact-based analysis to support data initiatives and improve business processes.
Senior Analyst, Retail Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Evaluate promotional performance, effectiveness and ROI taking into consideration variable factors including promotion size, duration, frequency, discount level, strength of titles, competitive forces, and merchandising support
Report and scorecard account performance utilizing both internal databases (Business Objects) and externally provided data
Lead detailed system requirements phases and identify, track, and resolve business systems issues
Recommend business solutions that satisfy stakeholder needs, while continuously exploring and assessing options for value-add for clients
Together with Project Manager, determine best mix of development, interfacing applications, and third party vendor solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives
Partner with the SSE team and support the management in their daily decision-making and target achievement process with the underlying goal to drive growth and profitability across the retail and franchise store portfolio
Execute standardized reporting and ad-hoc analysis (BSC, KPI tracking, Store P&L, store formats, countries, markets, regions)
Provide input for risk and opportunity management by evaluating the current business (at store format and market level) from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective
Develop and support the implementation of state of the art analytic and reporting tools that support the global steering of the store portfolio
Actively support the YE-target and develop the foundations for next year’s and mid-term objectives by offering guidance, analysis and insight into critical topics for Retail and Franchise selling consideration
Senior Analyst, Retail Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Analyst, Retail
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMI, PMP, CBAP, MBA, SAP, SAS
Education for Senior Analyst, Retail
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior analyst, retail job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, MBA, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Business/Management
Skills for Senior Analyst, Retail
Desired skills for senior analyst, retail include:
Merchandising/retail business in order to provide customized and relevant input
SQL
Tools used for analytics
Ability to establish and maintain good relationships
Analytical/statistical techniques in order to facilitate the most relevant and innovative analyses
Best practices
HIPAA/Compliance/Government regulations
HR
Industry trends through research
Inventory
Desired experience for senior analyst, retail includes:
Previous experience working with sales and with customers required
Ability to work in a heavily matrixed environment
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Math, Engineering or a business-related field (MBA and/or CPA is preferred)
5 - 8 years of experience with business systems planning including SAP, Hyperion Essbase and/or Cognos
5 - 8 years of professional experience in accounting, financial analysis or another related field
Minimum of 3 or more years of experience in a role presenting financial analysis and recommendations to a business unit leader
Senior Analyst, Retail Examples
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Senior Analyst, Retail Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior analyst, retail. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior analyst, retail
- Support the aligned execution of Retail and Franchise Selling and Finance strategy
- End-to-end communication and collaboration with all relevant selling departments (countries, markets, regions, SSE)
- Understand the business areas key drivers, end to end processes, roles and responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Business requirements gathering and mapping
- Influence stakeholders to drive the process forward
- Step into a Project Manager role if required
- Assist with driving CRM strategy and forecasts for North America via all direct to consumer marketing efforts
- Responsible for campaign and event analysis including segment performance, store results, lift vs control measurement
- Share high-level insights and recommendations for campaign optimization, segmentation strategies, and testing recommendations
Qualifications for senior analyst, retail
- Contributes to discussions on solutions and executes assigned priorities objectively with consideration and awareness of potential impact on other initiatives
- Provides advice and counsel to business partners on complex issues
- As required, reviews and recommends signoff/approval of documents such as External Design Documents (EDD), conversion and implementation strategies, and communication and training materials
- Reviews, comments and updates requirement documentation
- Providing input into the strategic direction, objectives and metrics for IBS
- Providing counsel and coaching to other team members
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior analyst, retail. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior analyst, retail
- Liaise with internal and external business partners (IT, outside vendors, global database, email service provider) to ensure timely/accurate processes in place for accurate reporting
- Assist with developing, executing, and interpreting customer-level analytics to drive business decisions
- Minimum 3-5 years professional experience working in direct marketing, database marketing, analytics
- Professional experience working with a CRM tool
- Analyzing the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
- Creating and implementing financial models, trends, and forecasts on an annual and strategic forecasts
- Working with the external auditors and various finance/accounting projects
- Data mining involving very large credit risk databases that contain historical and current performance data
- Provision of competitor analysis using external systems
- Responding to a significant volume of ad-hoc queries and requests
Qualifications for senior analyst, retail
- Using industry-leading requirements management methodologies
- Identifying and requesting formal training in Business Analysis and Requirements Management as needed
- Fostering and encouraging an environment of collaboration and teamwork between the Relationship Management, Business Analysis and Requirements Management and Projects and Process Delivery teams within IBS
- Previous Retail Lending experience considered a desirable asset
- Ability to multi-task while working in a fast paced changing environment
- Extensive working knowledge in Project Management, Methodology and Life Cycles
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior analyst, retail. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior analyst, retail
- Working to specific agreed deadlines
- Taking ownership for specific tasks
- Maintaining fund data on internal and external databases
- Calculation of ex-post risk statistics
- Assisting colleagues where required
- Involvement in projects and systems testing as required
- Enhancing existing reports creating new MI to suit business requirements
- Enhance existing reports create new data quality reports with new designs to suit business requirements
- Create & maintain account OTB
- Experience with Google Earth mapping tool
Qualifications for senior analyst, retail
- Contributes to all aspects of the business requirements process including planning and scheduling resources, contributing to risk assessment and cost/benefit analysis, establishing milestones and deliverables, and recommending user and management approval
- Participates in the discovery process with business lines to help define scope, requirements and planning which includes detailed requirements discussions to determine/validate business line’s needs, and captures accurate and detailed documentation of business requirements agreed upon by the Business Line, IBS and other stakeholders
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word, Project, Visio and Excel
- Proven ability to perform at a high level within a team environment
- Thorough understanding of Retail Products and Services
- Strong Excel and systems skills (i.e., pivot tables, advanced formulas)
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Our company is looking for a senior analyst, retail. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior analyst, retail
- Proven ability to self manage and project manage, including proactive follow through and updates
- Positive attitude and adaptability to change a must
- Responsible for collecting, summarizing data and providing analysis that will assist Pharmacy & Retail Operations management in both long- and short-range strategic planning, and the development and implementation of programs
- Maintains a comprehensive understanding of business processes and practices pertaining to all aspects of Pharmacy & Retail Operations within the Retail Hub
- Provides more complex analysis of corresponding data to build business case for system and operational procedure changes, enhancements, development of functional specifications or interface opportunities with costs and or return on investment summarized
- Serves as operation point of contact for various projects to drive project execution
- Collects, analyzes, makes specific recommendations, and presents information pertaining to proposed programs to meet the business and strategic goals of Pharmacy & Retail Operations and the Company
- Plans, designs and deploys appropriate reports and tools
- Collaborates across Pharmacy & Retail Operations, IT, legal and regulatory, process improvement teams, and others, to develop operational solutions
- Coaches, mentors, guides, and provides oversight to less senior Business Analysts
Qualifications for senior analyst, retail
- Elicits, facilitates and documents detailed business requirements and processes for Retail Product and Services Systems, using IBS approved Business Requirement Methodology
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and email platforms
- Basic retail and franchise business understanding combined with excellent finance and analytical skills
- This is a rapidly changing environment
- 5+ years’ experience in a similar business analysis role, performing feasibility studies, creating functional / design specifications, performing business process improvements
- Exposure to the full software development lifecycle
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Senior Analyst, Retail Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior analyst, retail. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior analyst, retail
- This individual will proactively interact with key internal customers, including FP&A, Brand Finance groups and Senior Management
- This individual will provide specific, actionable and forward looking commentary on changes in the monthly financial forecasts and the annual operating plan
- This individual is expected to understand business implications and proactively problem solve
- This individual will work actively to expand our partnership with Supply Chain Operations, Supply Chain Finance, Information Technology teams, and other functions, and show the ability to demonstrate leadership with these partners
- Create and maintain need calculations within JDA Allocation and support teams with features and functions of new system
- Act as a Functional/Technical administrator for all our JDA Suite Products (Enterprise Planning, Advanced Allocation, and Size Scaling, Assortment Planning TBD)
- Lead 2 Analysts to prepare the annual budget, monthly reforecast, and variance analysis for CTR Inbound Freight, Outbound Freight, and Transportation OPEX to present to internal stakeholders
- Provide analysis and insight into key drivers of Inbound Freight, Outbound Freight and Transportation OPEX, including transportation equipment expenses, warehouse supplies, and yard expenses
- Lead the team to increase automation and streamlining of Freight and OPEX forecasting and reporting processes
- Build financial models to project and track the savings of transportation productivity initiatives
Qualifications for senior analyst, retail
- Prior experience with retailer systems
- Familiarity and working proficiency using MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Access)
- Excellent analytical abilities are required, including advanced Excel skills
- MS office Excel proficient, MS Power Point is a plus, comfortable with web based applications
- Previous Retail Banking experience
- ATM and E-statement project experience highly desired