Financial Analyst, Business Analytics, Retail Finance

Summary

Posted: Oct 25, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200575068

The Finance Process, Analytics, Reporting, and Technology (PART) team is looking for a passionate and highly motivated analyst. As part of this team, you will support Apple’s growth, both top and bottom line, by applying the same level of innovation toward financial matters as we do toward our products and services. We work closely with various business teams to deeply understand current and future commercial initiatives and then partner with data engineering, data science and full stack development teams to ensure our finance teams are fully empowered to operate efficiently and make well informed decisions. We are looking for an outgoing professional with high analytical capacity, creativity, and strong interpersonal skills to support the WW Sales and Retail Finance Organization. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering across business teams to find and execute on the highest leverage opportunities to improve key finance capabilities. The position requires the ability to understand and work with complex data sets, generated from equally complex business processes, in order to drive insights.

Description

The position will work cross-functionally with Apple Retail, Sales, Finance and technical teams to: – Deeply understand Apple’s relevant business activities, commercial interests and related processes – Partner with and train analysts to best use our data and technology infrastructure for building dashboards/reports and conducting analyses – Identify opportunities to improve our internal reporting and analytical capabilities – Translate opportunities/business requirements into technical requirements and work with technical partners to assess feasibility and form project plans – Communicate business value of proposed projects to senior leadership for prioritization – Drive prioritized projects and communicate progress on planned milestones to senior leadership

Minimum Qualifications

• 2-4 years consulting or financial/business/data analyst experience
• BS/MBA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics or BS/MS in STEM or quantitative field (CS, Applied Statistics, Operations Research)

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent problem-framing, problem solving and project management skills, with the ability to change direction quickly
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to articulate results of analysis in business terms
• Confirmed ability to conduct complex, data driven analysis
• Knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements, and financial modeling
• A basic understanding of data design pattern differences between transactional ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and analytical data warehouses (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake)
• Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Knowledge of SQL and working with large datasets
• Experience with data analytics tools and languages (e.g. R, Python)
• Experience building interactive data visualizations, strong storytelling skills (e.g. Tableau, Streamlit, Shiny)
• Experience building/applying statistical and/or machine learning solutions to solve business problems

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $107,300 and $161,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.