We are looking for a Financial Analyst who can help analyze financial performance across Amazon, Shopify, and Walmart. This role will focus on profitability, advertising performance, forecasting, inventory, pricing, and financial reporting. You will work closely with leadership and operations to turn financial data into clear insights and practical recommendations.
Channel Profitability:
- Prepare monthly profitability analysis for Amazon, Shopify, and Walmart.
- Analyze discounts, advertising costs, marketplace fees, fulfillment, product costs, and other expenses.
- Identify which channels and products are driving profitable growth.
Advertising Performance:
- Track Sponsored Ads and DSP spend against sales, TACoS, ROAS, and contribution profit.
- Analyze advertising performance by product or product group.
- Recommend where advertising budgets should be increased, reduced, or reallocated.
Sales Forecasting:
- Maintain rolling sales forecasts by channel and major SKU.
- Consider sales trends, seasonality, promotions, pricing changes, and stock availability.
- Compare forecasts with actual results and explain significant variances.
Inventory & Cash Flow:
- Work with operations to estimate inventory purchasing needs.
- Identify potential stockout and excess inventory risks.
- Analyze the cash flow impact of purchasing and replenishment decisions.
Pricing & Promotions:
- Analyze the expected impact of price changes, coupons, Subscribe & Save discounts, bundles, and major promotions.
- Model how these decisions may affect sales and profit margins.
Product & SKU Analysis:
- Prepare financial analysis for new products, packaging changes, and underperforming SKUs.
- Evaluate unit economics and break-even sales levels.
Reporting:
- Prepare a concise weekly financial dashboard.
- Prepare monthly reports highlighting results, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Keep calculations and data sources accurate, consistent, and properly documented.
First 90-Day Priorities:
- Establish clear definitions for sales, advertising spend, TACoS, gross margin, and contribution profit.
- Build a channel and SKU profitability view using available data.
- Create a rolling 13-week cash forecast including inventory purchases.
- Develop a monthly sales forecast by channel.
- Identify key opportunities to improve advertising efficiency, pricing, and inventory allocation.
Qualifications:
- Experience in Financial Analysis, FP&A, or Commercial Finance.
- Experience in eCommerce or consumer products is preferred.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
- Ability to reconcile and analyze data from multiple systems.
- Experience with Amazon marketplace economics and advertising is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to clearly explain financial findings and recommend specific actions.
- Good judgment when working with incomplete or imperfect data.
- Able to distinguish between reliable conclusions and estimates.
Tools:
- Experience with Excel or Google Sheets.
- Experience with Amazon Seller Central or Amazon Ads.
- Experience with Shopify.
- Experience with Walmart Marketplace.
- Experience with DSP or advertising platforms.
- Experience with Power BI.
- Experience with Claude or other AI tools for analysis.