Hybrid Data Analyst — Retail Accounting & Insights

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Target is seeking a Data Analyst in Minnesota to translate retail and inventory activity into trusted financial signals and actionable insights. You will partner across Finance, Supply Chain, Stores, and Technology to identify risk and improve inventory reliability.

The role emphasizes analytical storytelling, data visualization, and clear communication of business impact, with a hybrid work arrangement and opportunities to grow in a dynamic retail analytics environment.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 1+ year as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience.
• Intermediate SQL experience writing complex queries.
• Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, data creation and consolidation.
• Support conclusions with a clear, understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualizations.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams, and translate ideas between them.

Responsibilities

• Translate retail and inventory activity into financial signals and actionable insights.
• Collaborate across Finance, Supply Chain, Stores, and Technology to identify risk and improve inventory reliability.
• Explain business performance with data-driven recommendations.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

SQL proficiency

Data storytelling

Problem solving

Communication

Data visualization

Analytical mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

Excel

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

Python

R

Domo

Adobe Analytics

Job description

Target is seeking a Data Analyst in Minnesota to translate retail and inventory activity into trusted financial signals and actionable insights. You will partner across Finance, Supply Chain, Stores, and Technology to identify risk and improve inventory reliability.

The role emphasizes analytical storytelling, data visualization, and clear communication of business impact, with a hybrid work arrangement and opportunities to grow in a dynamic retail analytics environment.