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VP Finance
Cornerstone Brands
West Chester, OH, United States
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The VP, Finance will be responsible for leading and delivering value-added business analysis, as well as, defining and reporting meaningful financial and operational metrics that lead to insightful, accurate decision-making. The VP will oversee the financial planning with a comprehensive understanding of key business drivers and sophisticated financial models that enable the team to deliver insightful, value-added analysis across the company. The VP is responsible for advising and providing guidance to maximize on-going profitability, and for supporting the evaluation of new opportunities.
In addition, the VP will be responsible for supporting the brand’s financial planning, forecasting, and accounting processes. This role will ensure systems and controls which verify the integrity of all accounting. This position will provide leadership across the organization and will play a critical part in ensuring the brand continues to deliver against financial plans.
Responsibilities:
• Direct and coordinate the development of the organization’s financial statements.
• Recommend benchmarks for measuring the financial and operating performance.
• Provide leadership and oversight in the preparation of the monthly reporting that includes financial statements, key performance indicator (KPI) reporting, analysis of key business trends, actual versus budget variances and executive level summaries of the state of the business.
• Provides leadership in the development of company monthly forecast submission for sales, margin, inventory and comp levers.
• Provides leadership in the development of daily sales forecasts and re-forecasts, for sales, margin, inventory, comp levers and omni channel transactions.
• Lead sales and inventory guidance for merchandising and planning and seasonal budget targets.
• Providing leadership in the preparation of hindsight recaps and creating ad-hoc projections analysis.
• Partner with Brand President, and HSNi leadership to develop long term strategic business plans.
• Enhance the delivery of our overall objectives and analytics that support the growth of the business.
• Lead the establishment of short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Oversee the financial planning and analysis and partner with the organization’s leadership team to provide value-added insight into the business.
• Drive an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing financial plans and analysis that links to the strategic objectives.
• Responsible for the development of the annual budget and monthly forecasts/outlooks, which include establishing timelines and ensuring budgets are accurate, comprehensive and completed on time.
• Establish and maintain systems and key controls to verify the integrity of all accounting process / procedures and financial reporting.
• Partner with Cornerstone Brands CFO, and HSNi executive leadership for an efficient and effective investment process of evaluating, tracking and monitoring capital activity.
• Provide leadership around financial modeling, financial analysis and valuation support for ad-hoc financial projects, including new retail initiatives.
• Lead the preparation, analysis, commentary and presentation material for financial review meetings.
• Exhibit strong leadership to motivate team to take on new responsibilities and assignments as they are identified and to assist with various ad hoc projects as needed.
• Establish and maintain relationships across HSNi to ensure quality deliverables and proper information flow.
Experience and Qualifications:
• BA/BS in Finance or Accounting plus CPA certification.
• MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10+ years of accounting and financial reporting experience with 5+ years of senior level management experience.
• Catalog/eCommerce/Omnichannel/Operational experience a plus
• Solid understanding of retail fundamentals and financial metrics
• Experience in a large, complex organization a plus
• Deep understanding of the profitability drivers necessary to achieve financial objectives while providing for investment in future growth
• Ability to dissect complex financial / business issues into simple-to-understand presentations increasing the financial acumen of Brand Leadership while resolving issues and driving change
• Demonstrated record of tangible improvements in results / processes during career
• Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to drive results through team and the organization
• Strong Interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence others
• Demonstrated outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Computer proficient including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Exceptional skills in leadership, critical thinking and analysis, and interpersonal interactions (e.g. partnering, conflict management, consulting, etc.)