Financial Analyst - Milwaukee

Improve company profitability through leading value-add analysis, driving cross-functional collaboration, and building business partnerships.

ANALYSIS

• Performs value-add analysis to provide business insights
• Aggregates and summarizes data using technical tools, accounting principles and relevant business knowledge
• Identifies and communicates trends and variances as well as their underlying drivers
• Ensures data integrity before presentation of findings
• Develops sensitivity analysis, rate versus mix, or correlation analysis

FORECASTING & REPORTING

• Systematically identifies appropriate variables, relevant assumptions and key performance metrics
• Provides insight on risks and opportunities to business functional area
• Executes weekly and monthly forecasts
• Participates in annual budgeting and updates long-range plans
• Updates routine schedules and daily routine reporting
• Books journal entries to ensure accurate month-end close process
• Maintains internal controls structure

BUSINESS PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS & SUPPORT

• Facilitates timely information gathering
• Communicates analysis and insights to business partners
• Compiles relevant findings for presentation
• Works cross-functionally to process invoices
• Updates value-add reporting to teams and leaders
• Supports the month-end close process, including recording journal entries, preparing month end reporting and performing account reconciliations
• Reviews contracts and establishes the correct accounting
• Executes capital project creation and forecasts
• Executes daily and monthly bank settlements

• Prepares SEC Filings (10-Q, 10-K, 8-K)
• Prepares quarterly earnings release and conference call materials
• Prepares financial schedules and analysis for the Board of Directors, Disclosure Committee and Audit Committee
• Performs monthly/quarterly SOX validations to ensure controls are operating effectively
• Acts as liaison to the external auditors
• Researches technical accounting and financial reporting issues, documents conclusions and recommends accounting treatment to ensure internal and external reporting requirements are met
• Analyzes and recommends improvements to major systems, processes, practices or policies

KOHL’S FINANCIAL SYSTEM

• Maintenance - problem solves, in partnership with KT to mitigate future system issues
• Quarterly Release - analyzes functionality for system and business process impacts
• Roadmap & User Requests - oversees prioritization of backlog to deliver requested functionality, partners with Finance & Procurement leadership and Oracle to help drive roadmap for future enhancements, networks with other Oracle cloud customers to develop and implement best practices

QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED

• Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and other Financial Software programs, along with accounting, budgeting, and forecasting skills
• Strong critical thinking skills, attention to detail, time management, and teamwork mindset

PREFERRED

• Retail industry experience
• Ability to handle multiple priorities