Analyst, Commercial Finance
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What will you be doing?
Circana is evolving its Commercial Finance function and seeking a driven Financial Analyst to support our Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) business. Commercial Finance is responsible for streamlining processes, leveraging new technologies, and delivering greater value to the Commercial teams that drive the business.
The Financial Analyst will play a key role in standardizing and enhancing financial reporting and analysis across multiple CPG practices. Leveraging process automation, advanced analytical tools, and strong financial acumen, this individual will help improve reporting efficiency, uncover key business insights, and support the organization's shift from historical reporting to more forward-looking analytics.
This role will support revenue reporting, headcount planning and analysis, month-end financial reporting, variance analysis, and ad hoc business requests while partnering closely with Commercial Finance leaders to support business growth and decision-making.
Job Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain standardized reporting packages across multiple CPG practices, leveraging automation to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and ensure data accuracy.
- Support the standardization of financial reporting, revenue reviews, and analytical processes across the CPG organization.
- Perform variance analysis and root cause investigations across revenue, expenses, and headcount to identify key business drivers and support business decision-making.
- Partner with Commercial Finance leaders to analyze business performance, identify trends, and deliver meaningful financial insights.
- Serve as a pilot user for new reporting, AI, and automation tools, identifying opportunities to streamline recurring analysis and reporting activities.
- Partner with Accounting to identify, track, and resolve variances between reporting systems, ensuring alignment between financial and management reporting.
- Support headcount planning, revenue reporting, month-end financial packages, and ad hoc analyses aligned to business priorities.
- Assist in the development of business cases and support strategic reporting initiatives, including Complete Food and Complete Beauty programs.
- Support the rollout and adoption of new reporting tools, templates, and standardized processes across CPG practices, including documentation and user training.
- Assist with account transfer validation activities to ensure completeness, accuracy, and proper financial alignment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of experience in finance, FP&A, commercial finance, revenue analytics, or reporting.
- Advanced Excel proficiency required, including experience with complex formulas, Power Query, large datasets, reporting automation, and financial analysis.
- Experience developing or automating recurring reporting using tools such as Power Query, Power BI, Excel add-ins, or similar workflow automation solutions.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate variances, identify underlying business drivers, and translate findings into actionable business insights.
- Experience working with large datasets to analyze trends, support decision-making, and improve reporting processes.
- Ability to create, document, and standardize reporting processes that improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across teams.
- Comfort leveraging modern productivity tools, including Microsoft Copilot and AI assistants, to streamline analysis, reporting, and documentation while maintaining strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and develop practical solutions to business challenges.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across Finance, Accounting, and Commercial teams.
- Self-starter with intellectual curiosity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Workday Adaptive Planning experience is a plus.
Circana Behaviors
Beyond the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:
- Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.
- Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.
- Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.
- Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers.
- Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.
- Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.
- Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.
Location: This position can be located in the following area(s): Remote, US with a strong preference for the Greater Chicago area and willingness to work within the Central Time Zone.
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $75,000 USD.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
An offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check in accordance with local legislation and our candidate privacy notice. Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission.
You can apply for this role through the Circana careers website or Intranet site for internal candidates. This role is subject to AI-assisted screening. Circana uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess resumes for alignment with job requirements by helping locate details in resumes that relate to the job description.
This position is expected to remain open for approximately 30 days and may close earlier if sufficient qualified candidates are identified.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, or related field
- 2-4 years of experience in finance, FP&A, commercial finance, revenue analytics, or reporting
- Advanced Excel proficiency including complex formulas, Power Query, large datasets, and reporting automation
- Experience developing or automating recurring reporting using Power Query, Power BI, Excel add-ins, or similar tools
- Experience performing variance analysis, root cause investigations, and working with large datasets to identify trends
- Ability to create, document, and standardize reporting processes, templates, and user training
- Comfort leveraging Microsoft Copilot and AI assistants to streamline analysis and reporting
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Workday Adaptive Planning experience
Circana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Circana and has not been reviewed or approved by Circana.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO for many exempt roles and paid holidays are frequently highlighted. Feedback suggests these time‑off policies are a notable strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available in the U.S. and is described as competitive and well‑received. Company communications emphasize equal/neutral parental leave, reinforcing family support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A broad slate of extras—such as adoption assistance, tuition/educational assistance, volunteer time off, and EAP—adds to the overall package. Feedback suggests these lifestyle‑oriented offerings complement core medical, dental, and vision coverage.
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What We Do
Circana is the leading advisor on the complexity of consumer behavior. Through unparalleled technology, advanced analytics, cross-industry data and deep expertise, we provide clarity that helps almost 7,000 of the world’s leading brands and retailers take action and unlock business growth. We understand more about the complete consumer, the complete store, and the complete wallet so our clients can go beyond the data to apply insights, ignite innovation, meet consumer demand, and outpace the competition. Circana is hiring! To view our current openings, please visit our IRI and NPD LinkedIn company pages.
