Senior Analyst, Store Payroll Budgeting and Planning

Senior Analyst, Store Payroll Budgeting and Planning

Join Ross Stores to apply for the Senior Analyst, Store Payroll Budgeting and Planning role at Ross Stores, Inc.

Ross is a leading off-price retailer with over 2,200 stores, a strong track record of growth, and a focus on delivering high-quality brands and on-trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. Our culture values people, teamwork, excellence, and diversity.

Success, career growth, teamwork, and our commitment to diversity, equality, inclusion, and community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us.

The Senior Analyst will drive and execute the end-to-end annual planning/budgeting cycle for Store Payroll, creating the annual Budget and 5-Year Plan, ensuring new initiatives, operations adjustments, and efficiency technologies are reflected.

• Create the Annual Budget and the 5-Year Plan for Store Payroll for all Ross locations.
• Update all key Store Payroll planning processes and files using internal data sources and projections.
• Build in the impact from labor-saving initiatives and reflect their impact on Store Payroll.
• Own analysis and complete schedules to support the recurring review of quarterly results.
• Own and update our wage rate model, which drives assumptions about average hourly wage rate by position, by month, by chain.
• Execute efficiency improvements in how we budget, plan, and manage all Store Payroll expenses.
• Implement changes and improvements to budget file architecture, data sources, and key systems.
• Mitigate potential issues, challenges, or risks during the annual budgeting process.
• Assist with additional Store Payroll analyses throughout the year.
• Maintain and update documentation on Store Payroll planning and budgeting processes over time.

• Managing and Measuring Work
• Communication
• Business Acumen
• Drive for Results
• Planning and Organizing
• Process Management
• Attention to Detail

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, mathematics, operations, accounting, or an analytical field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years post-college experience with increasing responsibility.
• Comfort with core financial planning and analysis processes: budgeting, forecasting, and variance explanations.
• Analytical ability, data-driven problem solving.
• Understanding of basic financial, statistical, and economic concepts.
• Strong verbal and written communication, including PowerPoint presentations.
• Detail-oriented approach, drive to get things right.
• Relationship building with peers and senior executive teams.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel and proficiency with other financial systems (Hyperion, RDW/DART, Flash Sales).
• Trustworthy with confidential information.

Work in an office environment, primarily on a computer. Requires sitting, standing, walking, hearing, talking on the telephone, attending in-person meetings, typing, working with paper/files, consistent attendance, vision requirements. Role can perform duties using a combination of in-office and remote work.

Base salary range: $77,900 – $117,050. The range is dependent on experience, skills, qualifications, education, certifications, seniority, and location. Other rewards vary by position and location.

Ross is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider individuals for employment or promotion according to their skills, abilities and experience. Ross is committed to complying with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, physical, mental or developmental disability, sex, veteran status, marital or registered domestic partnership status, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and other protected categories.