Senior Sales Audit Analyst

The Senior Sales Audit Analyst is responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of sales transactions and related financial data across JD Group's North American businesses, including JD Sports, Finish Line, Finish Line at Macy's, Shoe Palace, Nice Kicks, DTLR, and Hibbett.

In addition to executing complex sales audit and reconciliation activities, this position serves as a key contributor to the transformation of North American Sales Audit operations as five fascia-based teams transition into a unified shared services organization. This position requires a combination of analytical discipline, systems aptitude, project execution, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement expertise. The successful candidate will help enable the organization to maintain financial accuracy and operational effectiveness while reducing manual activities, improving throughput, and supporting a leaner staffing model.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee complex daily sales, return, and tender transaction audits across assigned North American fascias, ensuring accurate data transmission from POS and e-commerce systems through Sales Audit platforms into Workday Accounting Center.
• Investigate and resolve complex transaction discrepancies, reconciliation exceptions, tender mapping errors, missing sales batches, and other data integrity issues.
• Validate sales transaction postings to Workday Accounting Center and General Ledger accounts, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with established accounting controls.
• Analyze daily reconciliation outputs, prioritize material exceptions, and ensure timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Lead assigned continuous improvement initiatives to streamline and standardize Sales Audit processes across the North American business.
• Evaluate existing fascia-specific workflows, identify duplicative activities, unnecessary manual interventions, and inconsistent control practices, and recommend future-state solutions.
• Conduct current-state and future-state process mapping, root-cause analysis, and workflow assessments to identify opportunities for automation and operational efficiency.
• Partner with IT, POS Support, Workday teams, and other technology stakeholders to define business requirements for automated reconciliations, exception handling, validation rules, and reporting.
• Identify control gaps, inconsistent transaction handling, and recurring reconciliation issues; recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop standardized exception categorization, escalation procedures, ownership assignments, and resolution protocols.
• Partner with Sales & Margin leadership to establish operational metrics, reporting routines, and governance practices that promote accountability and transparency.
• Support internal and external audit requests by maintaining appropriate documentation and evidence of control execution.
• Support team readiness and adoption of standardized workflows, new technologies, and updated control requirements.
• Mentor and cross-train Sales Audit Analysts, sharing technical knowledge, analytical methods, and process improvement practices.
• Present findings, risks, recommendations, and improvement results to Sales & Margin leadership.

Required Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Operations Management, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. Five or more years of relevant experience in financial operations, business process improvement, operational analysis, shared services, systems implementation, or related functions. Demonstrated experience analyzing business processes, identifying root causes, implementing improvements, and measuring results.

Required Computer and Technical Skills

Proficiency in all Microsoft Office equivalent programs along with experience with multi-location or multi-fascia retail sales audit operations, including POS transaction processing and reconciliation. Hands-on experience with POS, Sales Audit, sub-ledger, and General Ledger systems, preferably Oracle XStore, ReSA, Aptos, Sales Hub, and Workday Accounting Center.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for more than 6 hours per shift
• Use hands to finger, handle and feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Talk and/or hear
• Stand for up to 2 hours at a time periodically
• Walk or move from one location to another
• Occasionally may need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 25 pounds occasionally
• Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the company’s policies are required for the position.
• Average work week is 45-50 hours, which can vary depending on business need.
• The work environment for this position is a moderately noisy office setting.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per company policy.

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This job description is not intended to cover all aspects, duties, and/or responsibilities required of employees. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary or permanent basis per company policy. ​The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice.

EEO Statement:

The Finish Line, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to complying with all federal, state, and local EEO laws. The Finish Line, Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on race or color, religion or creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, sex, pregnancy status, age, military status, disability, or any other characteristic or class protected by law. The Finish Line, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws, including for disabilities, pregnancy, and religious practices.

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