Data Analyst - Retail Accounting

The pay range is $69,800.00 - $125,700.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About us: 

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here. 

Right on pace with Target’s distinctive retail brand, Target Finance and Accounting are transforming for the better. As so much more than a behind-the-scenes number-cruncher, you will be a truly collaborative partner with a seat at the table. You’ll bring your unique point of view, experience and passion for the work to your team and internal clients. Within Accounting, you’ll enjoy the interesting challenges of the competitive retail space, and you’ll have a 360-degree impact—rather than on just one part of the business. You’ll see your contributions come to life in virtually every area of this dynamic enterprise. And you’ll grow and be challenged in your career while having a healthy balance with life outside of work.

 

As a Data Analyst, you will help translate Target’s retail and inventory activity into trusted financial signals, operational insight, and decision-ready analysis.

 

This role sits at the intersection of accounting, analytics, and operations, partnering across Finance, Supply Chain, Stores, and Technology to identify risk, improve inventory reliability, explain business performance, and support modernization efforts. Success in this role means connecting complex data and operational activity to clear financial outcomes and actionable recommendations.

Core Responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

 

About you:  

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ year as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience
• Intermediate SQL experience writing complex queries
• Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, Data creation and consolidation
• Support conclusions with a clear, understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualizations
• Willingness to ask questions about business objectives and the measurement needs for a project workstream, and be able to measure objectives & key results
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams, and translate ideas between them
• Experience in analytics tools such as: SQL, Excel, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Python, R, Domo, Adobe Analytics (or Google Analytics) and/or equivalent technologies

 

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota. 

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