Lead Financial Business Analyst

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Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

The Lead Financial Business Analyst provides portfolio-level finance leadership across the Engineering and Product organization during a period of significant transformation. The role brings financial rigor, clarity, and forward-looking insight to a broad portfolio of investments, enabling disciplined prioritization, sequencing, and value realization that advances the customer journey across digital and in-store channels.

The position will be based in our Pleasanton California office location. We currently require employees to work onsite Monday through Thursday to support collaboration and engagement. Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this role.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide portfolio-level financial leadership across assigned organizations with the technology organization. Including visibility into investment performance, spend trends, risks and opportunities, and value realization.
• Lead complex financial modeling, scenario planning, and investment evaluations for major programs, product features, and platform capabilities, informing and shaping prioritization, sequencing, and portfolio level tradeoff decisions.
• Own end-to-end financial governance for close activity and product portfolio analytics, including forecasting, forward-looking projections and assumptions that quantify financial impact, returns, and risks, informing near-term execution and longer-term product and platform roadmaps.
• Serve as the primary owner and strategic steward of portfolio investment governance tools and supporting systems, ensuring data integrity, alignment to enterprise priorities, and accurate measurement and budget-loading validations that enable executive-ready insights.
• Fulfill finance controller responsibilities across external services and contractor labor used to augment full-time teams, including review of role requests, statements of work, budget alignment, and approval of funding details within established authority thresholds, with direct supplier engagement as needed.
  Develop business commentary and financial narratives that require deep understanding of underlying demand drivers, cost models, and portfolio economics, supporting leadership discussions and decision reviews.
• Partner closely with product, technology, operations and finance leaders to deliver executive-ready insights, narratives, recommendations, and decision frameworks tie directly to business outcomes, strategic priorities, and governance requirements.
• Support the evolution of operating models, ownership structures, and governance, maintaining financial continuity as global and India-based teams are integrated and scaled.
• Drive closed-loop accountability through post-investment reviews, reinforcing learning discipline and continuous improvement across portfolio and labor investment decisions.
• Operate with a high degree of ownership across multiple workstreams simultaneously, applying sound judgment in ambiguous and evolving environments while maintaining momentum, continuity, and delivery against portfolio priorities.
• Develop strategic partnerships with Engineering and Product leadership (typically VP and SVP level) to drive a holistic view of technology investments and provide actionable recommendations that optimize business performance. Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders.
• Bridge technology execution, product strategy, and financial performance by creating a unified investment narrative for C-level executives. Present insights, recommendations, and financial outcomes at quarterly steering committee meetings.
• Drive financial rigor, accountability, and value realization across major technology transformation initiatives, including AI First, Geographic Optimization, and other strategic enterprise programs.
• Serve as the global finance leader for the assigned technology portfolio(s), with accountability across the U.S., Canada, Philippines, and India. Partner with regional finance leaders to develop plans and forecasts, evaluate performance, and drive consistent interpretation of financial results.
  
  

We are looking for candidates who possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or a related quantitative field with strong grounding in financial analysis and business strategy.
• Eight or more years of progressive experience in finance and business analytics within complex, fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted advisor delivering insights and recommendations that inform decisions across product, technology, and business leaders.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to connect financial insights to product strategy, operating models, growth initiatives and a broad range of new program tools, features, and capabilities, supporting informed decisions and long-term value creation.
• Proven experience leading financial modeling scenario planning, quantitative and qualitative investment analytics, while applying sound judgment in ambiguous and evolving situations.
• Advanced analytical and data mining skills with experience working in large, complex data environments to translate data into clear and actionable financial insights.
• Experience working with SQL based data platforms, Power BI, and enterprise financial systems such as Oracle EPM or equivalent tools within large complex environments.
• Strong professional presence and relationship building skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and tailor messaging to different audiences to inform and influence decision making.
• Highly organized and flexible team player who demonstrates initiative and effectively manages multiple priorities and details in dynamic and evolving environments ranging from well-defined to unstructured.
• Proficiency in Excel, SmartView, PowerPoint, ability to quickly learn the Albertsons and industry business context, and proactively identify opportunities that support value creation, financial and strategic impact.
  
  

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve

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Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!

Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw’s, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson’s Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico’s Community Markets, King’s, Balducci’s, and Albertson’s Market Street.

Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company’s success.

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Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.

Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Pay Transparency:

Starting rates will be no less than the local minimum wage and may vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. Candidates with unique qualifications may be considered for compensation above this range. Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, sick pay, PTO/Vacation Pay or Flexible Time Off, paid holidays, bereavement pay, and retirement benefits (pension and/or 401k eligibility). [If applicable:] Associates in this position may be eligible for a quarterly bonus. ​