Financial Analyst, Business Analytics, Sales Finance

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Aug 21, 2024
Role Number:200564663
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.

DESCRIPTION

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. Responsibilities: 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

• 5+ 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

• Knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements, and financial modeling
• Experience working with enterprise systems and an 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
• Advanced 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
• 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

• 5+ 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