Senior Financial Analyst – Retail Finance, Sales Forecasting & Power BI
Location: Irving, Texas
Work Arrangement: On-site
Employment Sponsorship: Not available now or in the future
Build the Financial Insight Behind Better Retail Decisions
American Bath Group is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst – Retail Finance & Sales Analytics to serve as the dedicated commercial finance partner for its Retail Sales organization.
This role will own retail sales forecasting, financial reporting, margin analysis, and transaction-level profitability insights while helping rebuild the reporting foundation for greater consistency, control, and scale. The Senior Financial Analyst will work directly with Retail Sales leadership to translate complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations involving customers, products, pricing, volume, mix, cost, rebates, freight, and commercial planning.
This is an opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys combining hands-on analysis, commercial judgment, stakeholder partnership, and practical business intelligence. Initial delivery will rely heavily on advanced Excel, with validated reporting logic evolving toward scalable Power BI dashboards as the data environment matures.
About American Bath Group
American Bath Group is a leading North American bathware manufacturer serving residential repair and remodeling, new construction, and commercial markets. Through a broad brand portfolio and more than 50 facilities, the company reaches customers across wholesale, retail, commercial, and showroom channels.
What You Will Do
Retail Finance and Commercial Partnership
- Partner directly with Retail Sales leadership to understand the business decision behind each request.
- Translate commercial questions into useful financial analysis, forecasts, scenarios, and recommendations.
- Provide a clear financial point of view on sales performance, customers, products, margins, and planning choices.
- Constructively challenge assumptions and identify financial or reporting gaps that could affect decision-making.
- Connect transaction-level economics to broader customer, channel, and commercial strategies.
Forecasting and Planning
- Own retail sales forecasts, projections, planning inputs, assumptions, and scenario analysis.
- Develop timely, explainable forecasts that are actively used in planning and commercial decisions.
- Analyze performance against expectations and identify the underlying drivers of variance.
- Support forward-looking decisions involving pricing, volume, mix, costs, rebates, freight, customers, and products.
- Improve the reliability, transparency, and usability of retail forecasting processes.
Financial Reporting and Analytics
- Assume end-to-end responsibility for the design, production, quality, cadence, and continued development of retail reporting.
- Analyze profitability at the customer, product, transaction, channel, and segment levels.
- Support reporting for large-box and secondary retail channels.
- Assess existing reports, eliminate unnecessary duplication, close priority gaps, and improve adoption.
- Establish consistent definitions, controls, documentation, and quality checks.
- Reconcile financial and operational data to ensure reporting accuracy and credibility.
- Deliver fast, accurate analysis using advanced Excel.
Reporting Transformation and Power BI
- Diagnose the current reporting environment, including data sources, report ownership, stakeholder needs, cadence, and gaps.
- Build reusable finance logic rather than creating isolated, one-time reporting processes.
- Integrate additional divisions and datasets through common definitions and repeatable structures.
- Prepare validated financial and business logic for migration into Power BI.
- Partner with stakeholders to develop an agreed Power BI roadmap or initial decision-useful dashboards.
- Build a scalable retail finance reporting environment with governed metrics and reusable analytical logic.
What Success Looks Like
During the first year, the Senior Financial Analyst will be expected to:
- Establish dependable ownership of priority retail sales, forecast, margin, and profitability reporting.
- Create a reporting calendar with clear accountability and quality-control processes.
- Deliver recurring forecasts and transaction-level profitability views that Retail Sales leadership uses in planning and commercial decisions.
- Improve consistency and decision usefulness across large-box and secondary retail reporting.
- Integrate agreed new divisions or datasets without creating separate, disconnected processes.
- Establish governed financial metrics, repeatable reporting logic, and a scalable reporting foundation.
- Develop an agreed Power BI roadmap or begin deploying validated dashboards.
Required Qualifications
The strongest candidates will demonstrate:
- Direct commercial finance support for a retail, wholesale, sales, revenue, or comparable business organization.
- Evidence that their financial analysis influenced business or commercial decisions.
- Experience owning and improving fragmented financial or operational reporting.
- Experience establishing reporting definitions, controls, cadence, documentation, and accountability.
- Transaction-level profitability analysis involving customers, products, transactions, channels, or market segments.
- Ownership of forward-looking sales forecasts, planning assumptions, scenarios, and performance reviews.
- Advanced Excel capability, including financial modeling, data analysis, reconciliation, reporting, and quality control.
- Practical Power BI experience translating validated business requirements and finance logic into useful dashboards.
- The ability to explain complex financial analysis in clear, commercially relevant language.
- The confidence to test assumptions, identify gaps, and make well-supported recommendations.
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred Background
Experience in one or more of the following environments is helpful:
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
- Building products
- Consumer durable goods
- Wholesale
- Large-box retail
- Complex customer or channel organizations
A specific industry background is not required when the candidate has strong, directly relevant commercial finance, forecasting, profitability, reporting, and analytics experience.
The Profile That Will Succeed
This opportunity is well suited to a finance professional who operates as a:
- Builder and operator: Able to repair an incomplete reporting system while consistently meeting recurring deadlines.
- Commercial finance partner: Focused on the decisions stakeholders need to make, rather than simply producing reports.
- Financial translator: Capable of turning detailed data into clear implications involving customers, products, margins, forecasts, and growth.
- Structured owner: Comfortable establishing definitions, controls, reporting cadence, documentation, and accountability.
- Practical technologist: Uses Excel and Power BI to solve finance and business problems without allowing the tool to replace the business question.
- Constructive challenger: Tests assumptions, communicates concerns clearly, and provides actionable recommendations.
Schedule and Location
- Location: Irving, Texas
- Work arrangement: Fully on-site
- Regular schedule: Monday through Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM
Work Environment
This is an on-site corporate finance and sales analytics position requiring close interaction with Retail Sales leadership and other internal stakeholders.
The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in an evolving reporting environment where ownership is currently distributed, definitions and user requirements require clarification, and Power BI capabilities are still developing. The role requires balancing recurring reporting deadlines with the longer-term work of rebuilding processes, standardizing financial logic, and creating scalable reporting structures.
Why Join American Bath Group?
This role offers genuine ownership and visible business impact. You will not simply inherit a finished reporting package or maintain dashboards designed by someone else.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Shape how Retail Sales forecasts demand and evaluates performance.
- Improve how leaders understand customer, product, transaction, and channel profitability.
- Work directly with senior commercial stakeholders.
- Decide what financial information matters most for business decisions.
- Build a reporting structure that can scale as the business and data environment evolve.
- See your analysis used in meaningful pricing, margin, customer, product, and planning decisions.
Apply
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by submitting a resume that clearly demonstrates experience in commercial finance partnership, sales forecasting, transaction-level profitability analysis, advanced Excel, Power BI, reporting ownership, and stakeholder communication.
Equal Employment Opportunity
American Bath Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Work Authorization and Employment Sponsorship
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. American Bath Group does not sponsor employment visas now or in the future.
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing and able to work fully on-site in Irving, Texas?
- Are you legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employment-visa sponsorship from American Bath Group?
- Do you have professional experience directly supporting a retail, wholesale, sales, revenue, or comparable commercial organization?
- Have you directly owned sales forecasts, financial projections, planning assumptions, or scenario analysis?
- Do you have advanced Excel experience involving financial modeling, data analysis, reconciliation, reporting, and quality control?
- Do you have experience analyzing profitability at the customer, product, transaction, channel, or segment level?
- Have you owned recurring financial or commercial reporting from data preparation and quality review through delivery and stakeholder use?
- Do you have practical experience developing or supporting decision-useful Power BI dashboards?
- Briefly describe the commercial organization or sales team you supported and how your analysis influenced a business decision.
Work Location: In person
