Description:
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is looking for a highly motivated, analytical, and collaborative Finance Manager to join our rapidly growing Marketing Finance team. Combining an understanding of finance, strong practical knowledge of financial statements, and using data to make and drive, this candidate will be the financial and strategic partner to the loyalty membership program. The person in this role will work cross-functionally within the loyalty and monetization org by supporting various leaders and teams (product, pricing, operations, sales, marketing, engineering, etc.). With a self-starter mentality, outstanding communication, and the ability to drive projects, you can thrive and make a meaningful impact on the business. This role will focus on building advanced reporting and forecasting functions from the ground up for a new line of business, as well as analyzing and evaluating new growth opportunities to support strategic decisions and ensure business and financial objectives are achieved.
At Chewy, we believe in ownership and accountability and value creativity. We are makers and doers who thrive on the desire to drive results. We approach our mission to provide the best service and customer experience anywhere with dogged determination and a cheerful disposition. Sure, we work hard, but we have fun, too. Of course, that's easy to do when you get to bring your favorite four-legged friend to the office.
What You'll Do:
- Work cross-functionally with the broader Chewy finance team and the analytics, merchandising, product, marketing, tech, and accounting teams to fully understand the business, its customers, and overall operations to develop new mechanisms and efficient processes
- Effectively manage numerous projects at a given time in a fast-paced environment
- Perform modeling and analytics required to synthesize large sets of data and produce concise outputs to convey recommendations and conclusions to senior management
- Extract and analyze data from central databases using SQL, Hyperion/Oracle, and Tableau
- Recognize and propose analyses influencing business partners and finance leaders to drive positive changes in the business
- Develop a deep understanding of the economics for Chewy's core retail and non-retail services to support pricing, membership benefits, marketing and adoption, and other critical strategic decisions
- Partner with team members and cross-functional leaders and lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial review and forecasting processes to identify planning assumptions for key business drivers and track performance while explaining variances to plan and identifying risks and opportunities
- Take initiative in leading peers, team members, and business partners to help achieve business, team, and personal goals
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or similar required; MBA preferred
- 5+ years of relevant experience (Corporate or Strategic Finance, Business Analytics, Financial Analysis, Ops/Supply Chain Finance), preferably with an understanding of retail, e-commerce, or membership business models
- Strong analytical and modeling skills (building from the ground up), and experience in supporting business case development, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
- Advanced Excel skills (i.e., VLOOKUP/Index Match, SUMIFS, pivot tables, etc.)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to think creatively, self-start, deal with ambiguity, meet tight deadlines, and prioritize changing workloads
- Results-oriented mentality, energetic, and dynamic individual with a hands-on mentality
- Experience with SQL or other database query tools