Financial Analyst

Wayfair; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 45.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading company in e-commerce is seeking a Financial Analyst for its EU Strategic Ops Finance team in Berlin. The role involves translating business challenges into actionable insights through data-driven analysis while collaborating with various teams to optimize operational costs. The position offers an exciting opportunity to influence financial strategies and drive impactful decisions within a dynamic environment.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business analytics required.
• Around 1 year of experience in a fast-paced results-oriented environment.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with financial data.

Aufgaben

• Translate high-level business problems into specific questions for data-driven analysis.
• Support Monthly Business Review meetings by identifying trends and cost savings opportunities.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor performance.

Kenntnisse

Analytical skills

Quantitative skills

Cross-functional communication

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Microsoft Excel

SQL

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business analytics

Tools

Looker

PowerBi

Tableau

Jobbeschreibung

Financial Analyst - EU Strategic Ops Finance

With Wayfair Europe's focus on profit and healthy expansion comes the need for strong financial partnership, planning, and support across the operations part of the business. The Strategic Ops Finance (SOF) team works collaboratively with various teams across the Transportation & Delivery team to drive fiscal accountability, provide visibility into actual performance against plans and shape our forecast based on most current trends and business needs. Our work provides the business with critical financial insights that directly impact the future direction of Wayfair's Operations. We enjoy tackling challenging problems and translating quantitative analyses into broader, strategic business implications.

This is a highly visible role within Wayfair and ideal for someone who wants to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative and data-driven environment. Within SOF we partner closely with Procurement Managers, Network Strategy Orchestration and Execution teams to deliver a comprehensive understanding of our operational cost drivers within our internal and external transportation network. We are looking for a new analyst and project specialist who will take a creative approach and use quantitative skills to help drive Global Supply Chain strategies.

What you’ll do:

• Translate high-level business problems into more specific questions which can then be answered by data-driven analysis
• Partner with various business stakeholders to identify key factors and requirements for each project, and obtain buy-in or resources for project execution
• Serve as a strategic finance partner for the Transportation & Delivery team to size impacts of initiatives and their cost implications.
• Support on the Monthly Business Review meetings to call out trends and cost savings opportunities to business leaders.
• Collaborate closely with Finance Leadership on a quarterly basis to conduct a financial health check and forecast operational spend for the next 12-24 months.
• Collaborate with the Profitability Management and the Strategic Corporate Finance team to identify areas of opportunity for cost savings and margin optimization.
• Become an expert of the transportation costs at Wayfair.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor performance and identify areas of improvement.

Who you are:

• Candidates must have (finance, economics, and/or business analytics) bachelor’s degree and ~1 year of experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills that put you at ease with financial data.
• Experience working within large datasets and resourcefulness in obtaining data when clean and/or complete information is not available.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to effectively convey insights from analyses to senior leadership.
• Excellent organization skills, strong attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and multitask.
• Passionate about solving complex business problems
• Strong Microsoft Excel and SQL skills are required
• Familiarity with data analysis tools such as Looker, PowerBi or Tableau.

We are looking for extraordinary and motivated individuals to join the team. If you think you can make a meaningful impact on the business, but do not meet every single criteria, apply anyway and let us make the decision.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form .

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About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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About the company

Wayfair Inc. is an American e-commerce company that sells furniture and home-goods.

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