AddressImprove company profitability through leading value-add analysis, driving cross-functional collaboration, and building business partnerships.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
ANALYSIS
- Develops 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
FORECASTING & REPORTING
- Systematically identifies appropriate variables, relevant assumptions and key performance metrics
- Develops sensitivity analysis, rate versus mix, or correlation analysis
- Provides insight on risks and opportunities to business functional area
- Drives and improves the weekly/monthly forecast process in collaboration with business partners
- Drives annual budgeting and updating of long-range plans
- Proactively identifies process improvements and find operating efficiencies
- Develops new, complex reporting, peer review, and creates new report summaries
- Books advanced 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
- Ensures invoices are processed cross-functionally
- Enhances value-add reporting to teams and leaders
- Drives the month-end close process, including recording advanced journal entries, preparing month end reporting and performing account reconciliations
- Reviews contracts and ensures the correct accounting
- Determines capital versus expense
- Identifies the root cause of any bank settlement variances
ADDENDUM
REPORTING
- 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
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or other relevant field
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and other Financial Software programs, along with accounting, budgeting, and forecasting skills
- Strong critical thinking, attention to detail, time management, and communication skills
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
PREFERRED
- 3+ years of experience in Accounting or Finance
- CPA or MBA
- Retail industry experience
