Financial Analyst FP&a

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

• Key responsibility will be to work with different teams within FP&A / Finance to draw out key insights / drive new analytics around different areas of the business.
• Analyze business performance and support decision making by providing stakeholders with meaningful insights and visibility on business performance on a regular basis;
• Generate insights into business performance to help drive improve financial results and facilitate data-based decision making
• Use data extraction tools to extract and manipulate large amounts of data
• Build scenarios, plug and play models, what if analysis to simulate the financial impacts of various operational decisions
• Develop, model and apply analytical best practices using new and emerging technologies to raise the bar for performance in analysis by sharing with others well documented analytical solutions.
• Drive a continuous improvement mindset by seeking out efficient ways to solve problems and to continually improve technically, implement best practises and analytical acumen
• Develop and analysefinancialreports/Dashboards/Data Validations

• Reports to Senior Manager, FP&A (Target India)
• Partner with Finance teams in India
• Partner with Global FP&A teams based out of Minneapolis

• 2-5 years of relevant experience as a Financial Analyst, Data Analyst or Business Analyst
• B.E/B.Tech,M.Tech, M.Sc. , MCA.,B.Com/ M.Com, CA, MBA, CMA, CWA
• Basic understanding ofstatistical analysis, understanding forecasting/predictive modelling, etc.
• Advanced SQL experience writing complex queries
• Experiencewith analytics toolssuch asHadoop, Hive, Spark, Python, R, Domo and/or equivalent technologiesis an added advantage
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and conceptual skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with ambiguous problem definitions, recognize dependencies and deliver solutions
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to businessand finance leaders, and translate ideas between them
• Intellectually curious, high energy and a strong work ethic
• Comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems in support of Finance