Senior Financial Analyst – 6 Open Roles

Nordstrom

. Lead the planning and analysis process for weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance (including close/variance), as well as annual and long-term financial plans.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

OracleSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the planning and analysis process for weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance (including close/variance), as well as annual and long-term financial plans.
Develop and enhance financial models and scalable tools using a variety of data sources and KPIs to support planning/forecasting, analyze past performance, and predict future trends.
Analyze large sets of data and be able to speak to it and translate it to finance and non-finance folks.
Partner with cross-functional teams to drive strategic decision-making and improve business outcomes through insightful financial analysis.
Communicate trade-offs, benefits, and priorities effectively with business leaders, ensuring alignment on key initiatives.
Conduct ad hoc analyses and special projects, presenting findings to senior leadership to inform key business decisions.
Drive continuous process improvements, automation, and streamlined reporting, ensuring outputs reconcile to source-of-truth data and improve accuracy.
Analyze financial data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks, providing actionable recommendations to improve performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of relevant experience in corporate Sr. Financial Analyst role, or a related analyst role
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
Proven experience owning forecasting/budgeting and close variance analysis, with a strong ability to model, analyze, and interpret data to drive business insights.
Proven success in being able to influence the business with your story telling with data and recommendations.
Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint a must; experience with Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau, Hyperion Essbase, Power BI and SQL (or similar tools) is a plus.
Ability to work independently, developing processes and deliverables with minimal direction.
Meticulous attention to detail, with a focus on data integrity, controls, and accuracy.
Experience presenting financial data to senior or executive leadership is highly preferred.
Intellectual curiosity and a continuous-improvement mindset, proactively identifying opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve existing processes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
Life Insurance and Disability
Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial modelingdata analysisforecastingbudgetingvariance analysisprocess improvementautomationreportingdata integrityfinancial analysis

Soft Skills

communicationstorytelling with dataproject managementprioritizationattention to detailindependenceintellectual curiositycontinuous improvementinfluencingcollaboration