Sr Financial Analyst, Merchandising Finance

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This position has been segmented as Hybrid meaning there is a combination of three onsite days per week and the rest remote.

Responsibilities:

• Support forecasting, annual planning, and period-end reporting for Merchandising Finance, including analysis of key business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Serve as the lead FP&A business partner for Culinary Equipment and Supplies (CES). Own CES reporting, decks, annual planning, forecasting, and recurring financial deliverables, ensuring business leaders have clear visibility into performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze financial and operational performance to identify trends, explain variances, and develop actionable insights and recommendations.

• Partner with Merchandising and Finance stakeholders to understand business performance and support key decisions.
• Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate business initiatives, margin opportunities, and strategic questions.
• Prepare clear, executive-ready reporting and presentations that communicate performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Support cross-functional and ad hoc analyses related to merchandising strategy, pricing, vendor economics, gross margin, customer initiatives, and emerging business priorities.

• Improve and automate financial processes, reporting, and analytical tools through Excel, data visualization, AI-enabled tools, and other technologies.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Relationships:

• Internal: Merchandising leadership and associates; Corporate FP&A; Accounting; Commercial Finance; and other cross-functional partners.

• External: N/A

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant finance, FP&A, accounting, or analytics experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with data and draw meaningful conclusions.
• Strong Excel skills and understanding of financial statements, forecasting, budgeting, and business performance drivers.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts and analytical findings clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ownership, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to learn.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams and levels of the organization.
• Deep understanding of key financial and operational drivers within a commercial environment.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related analytical field (required).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience or coursework in FP&A, commercial finance, analytics, pricing, or another business-facing finance discipline.
• Familiarity with financial modeling, large datasets, SQL, Snowflake, Sigma, Anaplan, or similar analytical tools.
• Interest or experience in using automation and AI-enabled tools to improve financial analysis and processes.
• Experience in food distribution, retail, consumer products, restaurants, or another consumer-facing operating environment.
• CFA, CPA, MBA, or other relevant advanced credentials are a plus.

This role will also receive an annual incentive plan bonus.

​Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state or local minimum wage thresholds).  The expected base rate for this role is between

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