Senior Financial Analyst

Title: Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A

Location: Stamford, CT

Job Type:  FT

About the Role:  

The Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A serves as a strategic finance partner to the Office of the CFO and business leaders across Operations, Retail, Marketing, Shared Services, and Corporate functions. This role is responsible for financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and executive reporting that support key operational, financial, and strategic decisions.

The successful candidate will leverage financial and operational data to deliver actionable insights that drive revenue growth, profitability, and business performance. This highly visible role offers regular exposure to the CFO, CIO, and executive leadership team and plays a key role in enterprise-wide planning, forecasting, KPI reporting, and strategic decision-making.

What You’ll Do: 

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to company by providing financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for key operational, financial, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead monthly forecasting, annual budgeting, and long-range planning processes across assigned business functions.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze complex financial models to evaluate business performance, operational initiatives, capital investments, and growth opportunities.
• Partner with Retail, Operations, Marketing, Shared Services, and Corporate leadership teams to identify risks, opportunities, performance improvement initiatives, and communicate financial results and recommendations to executive and C-suite stakeholders.
• Develop, monitor, and report on key business metrics and KPIs, including retail, operational, labor, and marketing performance indicators in addition to margin and EBITDA performance.
• Partner with Marketing leadership to evaluate campaign performance, customer acquisition trends, marketing spend effectiveness, and return on investment.
• Produce executive-level reporting packages, variance analyses, dashboards, board materials, and presentations for senior leadership, the CFO, and other members of the executive team.
• Drive labor planning and workforce analytics initiatives, including productivity measurement, staffing optimization, overtime analysis, and workforce forecasting.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, improve data quality, and enhance financial planning and reporting processes.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Business Analytics, Consulting, or a related analytical role.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, Power Query, pivot tables, and large dataset manipulation.
• Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation skills.
• Experience building budgets, forecasts, financial models, and executive reporting packages using planning and reporting tools such as Vena, OneStream, or similar platforms.
• Experience with SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Omni, or other business intelligence and data visualization tools strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance management.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate financial concepts to both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership and presenting financial results, recommendations, and insights to executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience supporting multi-site retail, consumer products, manufacturing, or other operationally complex organizations preferred.
• Subject to background check per state cannabis requirements.