Financial Analyst - Experienced Graduates (Spring 2025 Starts)

Finance Analysts - Experienced Graduates

Spring 2025 start

Location: Boston, MA

 

This is a Boston based opportunity with a 4 day in office expectation.

Wayfair is continuing to expand our commitment to hiring and supporting talent early in their careers, focusing on filling opportunities with experienced graduates who have 1-3 years of experience.

Who we are:

Do you like distilling complex problems into actionable solutions? Are you able to quantify costs, understand their business impact, and communicate the tradeoffs? Do you want to use data to identify key opportunities and drive multi-million dollar investment decisions for Wayfair’s various business segments?  The Strategic Finance team owns all forecasting and financial reporting for our growing global business and acts as a strategic partner to each of our business units to ensure we are supporting Wayfair’s growth while also making sound financial decisions for the business.  We are a diverse and fun crew - come join us!

Possible Team Placements Include:

Analyst, Brand Finance

With Wayfair’s aggressive growth comes the need for strong financial partnership, planning, and support across the business. The Brand Finance team works closely with brand General Managers and cross-functional stakeholders (Marketing, Profit Management, Operations) across all of Wayfair’s brands and sub-entities to translate business initiatives and strategies into expected financial outcomes, plan for future growth and profitability goals, and act as a check and balance for business partner initiatives. In addition to forecasting revenue, Brand Finance leads brand-level P&L creation & analyses, investment modeling, scenario planning, and profitability planning across Wayfair’s businesses.

The Brand Finance team consists of analytical and detail-oriented individuals who enable leadership to make strategic business decisions by providing analysis of business performance and delivering in-depth business forecasting models. We enjoy tackling challenging problems and translating quantitative analyses into business insights and actionable strategies. This is a highly visible role within Wayfair and ideal for someone who wants to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and data-driven environment. 

CastleGate Forwarding (CGF) - Billing & Audit

The position available at this time is specifically on the CastleGate Forwarding (CGF) - Billing & Audit team. CGF Billing & Audit manages the billing operations for Wayfair's Castlegate Forwarding business, as well as assisting with billing disputes and auditing Wayfair data to ensure billing accuracy and compliance.

This position helps enable new CastleGate Forwarding business lines and services, by building and utilizing new data monitors to proactively identify and mitigate risk to invoicing. Gathering and analyzing data on billing disputes to gain insights on how to improve moving forward is also a critical component of the role.

What You'll Do

• Drive Brand Finance forecasting workstreams for some of Wayfair’s highest growth websites and brands both domestically and internationally.
• Drive thought leadership; supported by data-driven insights, you’ll help leadership inform strategic, financial, and operational decision-making across the company. Your scope will span long-term business strategy and planning to short term orders forecasts.
• Strengthen existing relationships with cross-functional partners across Operations, Marketing, and Profit Management, serving as the subject matter expert on Revenue and Ad Spend for your brands.
• Working with large data sets to identify data issues before they impact invoices
• Engaging with CGF stakeholders to resolve data issues
• Working with Wayfair accounting to ensure all CGF financial data is accurately accounted for
• Engaging with supplier relationship managers and suppliers to resolve billing dispute

 

What You’ll Need 

Basic Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of transferable experience in a corporate environment, including internship and co-op experience
• Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship by Wayfair now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in working with large and/or complex data to drive actionable insights in at least 1 of the following (a) Excel or Google Sheets and (b) SQL, GBQ, or an equivalent
• Ability to work in an environment that requires being a self starter and team player
• Ability to simplify complex data, identify core themes, root causes and provide actionable solutions (e.g., critical t