Field Finance Manager- DC & Transportation at WALGREENS
Deerfield, IL 60015
About the Job
Job Summary :
The DC & Transportation Field Finance Manager acts as a subject matter expert and provides financial guidance to Distribution Centers and Transportation Management, while ensuring key financial objectives are met. Responsible for preparing budgets, financial forecasts, and performing periodic analyses of variances as compared to plan. Contributes to the development and execution of business teams financial priorities by participating in local cross-functional joint issue identification, analysis and resolution. Assists local management to achieve their long-term financial goals by evaluating and recommending strategies for improving efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of operations and reporting.
Job Responsibilities:
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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The DC & Transportation Field Finance Manager acts as a subject matter expert and provides financial guidance to Distribution Centers and Transportation Management, while ensuring key financial objectives are met. Responsible for preparing budgets, financial forecasts, and performing periodic analyses of variances as compared to plan. Contributes to the development and execution of business teams financial priorities by participating in local cross-functional joint issue identification, analysis and resolution. Assists local management to achieve their long-term financial goals by evaluating and recommending strategies for improving efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of operations and reporting.
Additionally, responsible for being the financial point of contact for established/new DC and Transportation projects. This would involve financial modeling for new projects to obtain governance approval as well as managing project actuals, forecast and corresponding KPIs.
Job Responsibilities:
- Acts as primary point of contact for all financial matters for assigned area DCs. Collaborates with business management and support teams to ensure successful execution, delivery of customer value and positive business results.
- Collaborates with Corporate Finance to fulfill the DC financial analysis needs and ensure all financial goals are in alignment with the Corporate Financial strategy.
- Prepares financial forecasts and budgets; tracks and analyzes financial results. Responsible for providing periodic DC and area business performance reviews such as Annual Budgets, Monthly Financial Review, Monthly Business Reviews, P/L reviews and day-to-day root cause / exception analysis.
- Responsible for driving cost savings efforts and identifying opportunities to improve processes and practices for cost savings.
- Provides financial management support to all levels of the business team. Contributes to the development and execution of business team priorities by participating in local cross-functional joint issue identification, and analysis and resolution with management and other local business partners.
- Develops financial acumen of DC management and support functions. Mentors, coaches, and develops DC personnel on financial matters through orientation, training, establishment of objectives, communication of policies and rules, and constructive discipline.
- Collaborates with DC partners to prepare, review and submit Capital Expenditure budgets and requests. Analyzes all maintenance-related expenses, parts inventory and spending practices.
- Collaborates with Inventory management and DCs to assist with recurring inventory activities, including those geared toward the reduction of manual inventory adjustments, reduction of damaged inventory, and participation in physical inventory counts in order to ensure minimal negative financial impact.
- Participates in medium term and strategic planning for the assigned business area.
- Identifies and analyzes various investments and substantiate rationale for projects through business case developments.
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree and at least 2 years of experience in an analytical role in financial accounting and reporting including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis. OR High School/GED and at least 5 years of experience in an analytical role in financial accounting and reporting including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
- At least 2 years experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve issues and problems.
- At least 2 years experience with analyzing and/or reporting data in order to identify issues, trends or exceptions to drive improvement of results.
- At least 2 years experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
- At least 2 years experience working with a variety of financial platforms such as Oracle, JD Edwards or SAP.
- Experience presenting to and coordinating senior level meetings, including preparation of agendas, documenting meeting minutes, sending out documents to attendees.
- 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).
- 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).
- At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross- functional team leadership.
- Willing to travel up to 20% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors degree and at least 5 years of experience in an analytical role in financial accounting and reporting including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis. OR High School/GED and at least 8 years of experience in an analytical role in financial accounting and reporting including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
- At least 3 years experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve issues and problems.
- Masters Degree in Accounting/Finance or an MBA.
- Experience in Transportation and Distribution Center operations
- Knowledge in modeling for project proposals and tracking/managing actuals and forecasts for approved projects
- Proficient knowledge in SAP
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