[Remote] Senior Financial Analyst, Margin Forecasting and Analysis (Open to Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bob’s Discount Furniture is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst to own merchandise margin forecasting and explain margin performance. The role builds driver-based forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, supports pricing and sourcing decisions, and presents findings to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the margin forecast model: build and maintain a driver-based merchandise margin forecast spanning initial markup, landed cost, markdown, mix, and shrink
• Drive the rolling forecast cadence: update and reissue the margin forecast on an established cadence, incorporating the latest cost, pricing, and demand inputs
• Quantify drivers: decompose margin performance and forecast changes into volume, rate, and mix, with clear attribution to specific business actions
• Model scenarios: quantify the margin impact of proposed pricing actions, cost changes, promotional plans, and assortment shifts
• Own margin variance explanation: produce clear, well-structured bridges explaining margin actuals versus plan, forecast, and prior year
• Surface risks and opportunities: proactively identify emerging margin risks and quantified opportunities; escalate with recommended actions
• Deliver executive reporting: prepare margin performance packages and executive dashboards that translate complex analysis into a clear narrative
• Maintain analytical integrity: ensure consistent definitions, reliable data lineage, and reproducible methodology across all margin reporting
• Partner with Sourcing: incorporate landed cost movement, supplier negotiations, and total cost of ownership inputs into the margin view
• Partner with Pricing: quantify the realized margin impact of pricing and promotional decisions and feed results back into future recommendations
• Partner with Merchandise Finance: ensure the margin forecast reconciles cleanly to the financial plan and the corporate forecast
• Support planning cycles: provide margin analytics that inform the annual operating plan and the merchandise long-range plan

Skills

• 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
• 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
• Proficiency with SQL strongly preferred
• Experience with enterprise planning tools such as Anaplan, Hyperion, or similar
• Furniture, home, or big-ticket retail experience
• Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, or comparable visualization tools

Benefits

• Fun team-oriented work environment
• 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” offering hundreds of online discounts from your favorite merchants
• 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
• Open to remote

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