Senior Analyst, Margin Forecasting

🔥 17 hours ago

🦌 Connecticut, New York, +1 more states – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $80k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Analyst

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Bob's Discount Furniture

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1991

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🛒 Retail

Manufacturing • Logistics • Retail

Bob's Discount Furniture is a retail furniture store offering a wide range of home furnishings and accessories at affordable prices. They provide an efficient shopping experience through their online platform, where customers can browse and purchase various furniture pieces. The company places a strong emphasis on customer privacy and the use of technologies to enhance website functionality and personalization. They comply with privacy laws like the CCPA and offer options for customers to manage their data preferences. Their business model includes leveraging performance and marketing technologies to improve user experience and offer relevant advertisements.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain a driver-based merchandise margin forecast spanning initial markup, landed cost, markdown, mix, and shrink • Update and reissue the rolling margin forecast using the latest cost, pricing, and demand inputs • Decompose margin performance and forecast changes into volume, rate, and mix, attributing them to specific business actions • Quantify the margin impact of proposed pricing actions, cost changes, promotional plans, and assortment shifts • Produce bridges explaining margin actuals versus plan, forecast, and prior year • Identify emerging margin risks and quantified opportunities and escalate them with recommended actions • Prepare margin performance packages and executive dashboards • Ensure consistent definitions, reliable data lineage, and reproducible methodology across margin reporting • Incorporate landed cost movement, supplier negotiations, and total cost of ownership inputs into the margin view • Quantify realized margin impacts of pricing and promotional decisions and inform future recommendations • Reconcile the margin forecast to the financial plan and corporate forecast • Provide margin analytics for the annual operating plan and merchandise long-range plan

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or a related field • 4–6 years of experience in financial analysis, merchandise finance, retail analytics, or a comparable analytical role • Strong understanding of retail margin mechanics, including initial markup, landed cost, markdown, and realized margin • Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills • Proficiency with SQL strongly preferred • Demonstrated ability to build driver-based forecast models and explain variance with analytical precision • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to finance and non-finance leadership • High standards for accuracy and analytical integrity, with the ability to move quickly without sacrificing either • Experience with enterprise planning tools such as Anaplan, Hyperion, or similar preferred • Furniture, home, or big-ticket retail experience preferred • Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, or comparable visualization tools preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Nationally provided Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance • Paid Vacation, Personal Days, Sick Days, Holidays, work anniversary and your Birthday • 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan with a Generous Company match • Pet Insurance • Employer-paid basic Life Insurance, with the option to add Voluntary Life Insurance • Financial Planning, Voluntary Legal Benefits and Wellness Plans • Generous Employee Discount starting on your 1st day • Additional Employee Discounts through the “Hays Perks discount program” • Professional Development: In-person, virtually and an infinite library of on-demand classes in Workday Learning • Tuition Reimbursement • BDF Education Foundation Scholarship Program open to employees and their dependents • Robust succession planning and opportunities to advance careers