Senior Financial Analyst
At a glance
Senior FP&A role at Walgreens. Chicago · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $95,000–$127,875.
Walgreens has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
financeroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Build financial models for product launches, portfolio choices, new opportunities, regulatory shifts and capital decisions
- Forecast results and track product measures to assess current performance and the economics of pricing, marketing and business initiatives
- Prepare monthly financial reports, project business conditions and explain the effects of existing or proposed programs
- Create tools that make financial modeling more efficient, support complex proposal responses and help improve results
- Guide other analysts and provide feedback on their work
What you bring
- A bachelor’s degree plus at least one year in an analytical role, or a high school diploma or GED plus at least four years
- Experience with financial modeling and profitability work, alongside financial analysis or auditing
- Skill in interpreting and reporting data to spot trends or exceptions and identify ways to improve results
- Working ability in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with strong organization to manage multiple deadlines
Who this fits
This senior analyst role suits someone who can handle detailed financial analysis and guide fellow analysts. The position is onsite in Chicago and requires willingness to travel up to ten percent of the time, including within and outside the state.
From the employer
Develops complex financial models to support decision making related to complex business issues including new product development analysis, product portfolio analysis, profitability of new opportunities, impacts of regulatory changes, capital analysis, revenue models and profit margin analysis. Emphasis on forecasting, analyzing current performance through the creation and monitoring of product metrics, and conducting prospective and ongoing economic analysis of products including marketing programs, product pricing, business initiatives and services. Prepares and analyzes the monthly financial statements and reports to produce forecasts of business, industry and/or economic conditions for use in making sound business decisions. Analyzes and reports on the financial impact of current and proposed programs. Fulfills complex analysis needs. Assists in driving change as needed to improve financials for the organization and/or to assist in the response to complex Request for Proposals questions where required. Builds analytical tools to gain efficiencies in financial modeling as required. Provides guidance and feedback to other analysts on the team.
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis or economics or High School Diploma/GED and at least 4 years of experience in an analytical role in finance, accounting, business management, quantitative analysis or economics.
- Experience with financial analysis, financial modeling, profitability analysis and/or auditing techniques.
- Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting aggressive deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
- Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).