Senior Business Analyst, Analytics

We Go Beyond

At Bed Bath & Beyond, we believe that everyone should "Be You!". Bed Bath & Beyond is a community that upholds a culture of understanding, acceptance, and respect. We believe a person's individuality, traits, beliefs, and characteristics should be valued and embraced. Living by this ethos is essential to the success of our business. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive environment where every employee visibly demonstrates inclusive behaviors and respect for individuals.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced SQL to extract, manipulate, validate, reconcile, and analyze large and complex financial datasets.
• Develop and maintain financial reporting, KPIs, dashboards, and recurring analyses.
• Support reconciliation of data between the enterprise data warehouse, ERP, payment platforms, and other financial systems.
• Analyze sales, orders, payments, refunds, fees, receivables, payables, and other financial activity.
• Provide ad hoc strategic and tactical analysis to Finance and Accounting teams.
• Investigate discrepancies and trace transactions across multiple systems and data sources.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting and reconciliation activities as needed.
• Develop business cases and financial analyses to support strategic initiatives.
• Understand data pipelines and transformations sufficiently to identify data quality issues and reporting caveats.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Data Engineering, and Technology teams to translate business and reporting requirements into analytical solutions.
• Help improve and automate manual financial reporting and reconciliation processes.
• Clearly communicate analytical findings, data issues, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required

• 2+ years of relevant analytics, business intelligence, finance, or accounting experience.
• Strong SQL skills and demonstrated experience querying, joining, validating, and analyzing large datasets.
• Experience working with relational databases or cloud data warehouses.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills with high attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of foundational financial concepts.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to investigate complex data discrepancies across multiple systems.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, or another quantitative/analytical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Experience working with ERP or financial system data.
• Understanding of Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), and related accounting processes.
• Experience working with transactional, payment, settlement, or reconciliation data.
• Experience supporting Finance or Accounting reporting and analytics.
• Experience automating financial reporting or reconciliation processes.
• Experience working with large order and transaction-level datasets.
• Experience with BigQuery, MicroStrategy, or Python.
• Familiarity with e-commerce or retail financial data.
• Advanced degree or relevant professional experience in Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires you to sit, stand and perform general office functions.
• You may also be required to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Bending, stooping and reaching are also frequently required.