Kohl’s Hiring for SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST at Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin Full Time

Improve 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

Kohl’s is an equal Opportunity Employer and an organization that values and encourages diversity among our applicants. We’re committed to creating a culture where everyone belongs; where diversity and inclusion drive innovation and business results while enabling associates and customers to be their authentic selves every single day.