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Director of Financial Planning & Analysis
REI
Kent, WA, United States
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What's cool about this job
This job contributes to REI’s success by providing timely, convincing, relevant and sound strategic and financial information and service for the company while providing strong leadership to the Planning and Analysis team. The role will drive the FP&A teams to elevate existing processes and tools in order to meet the needs of future co-op growth. This role creates cross-functional partnerships and fosters fact-and financial-based decision making for the co-op ensuring that we have consistency and accuracy across FP&A. It has a broad impact across the organization, through leadership and accountability for the annual budgeting and strategic planning process, ongoing accurate financial forecasting, and financial support for ongoing financial analysis of strategic business initiatives. This role is the day-to-day engagement point for the Senior Leadership of the divisions and the core management team of FP&A. In addition, this role will be responsible for leading initiatives around enterprise-wide consolidations, reporting, key performance metrics, and profitability analysis to drive better alignment of financials for senior leadership and the Board of Directors. This position includes advanced enterprise-wide special projects, duties and initiatives as assigned. Models and acts in accordance with REI’s guiding values and mission.
• Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the organization promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results.
• Supports the implementation of company programs, procedures, methods and practices to promote REI key messages.
• Challenges and inspires employees to achieve business results.
• Ensures employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.
• Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions.
• Conducts and ensures the completion of performance reviews.
• Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to employees in order to achieve department, company and customer results.
• Establishes and maintains visibility within the department.
• Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action.]
• Provide broad cross-divisional leadership to the individual FP&A teams to ensure alignment, accuracy, and rigorous financial management.
• Develop and collaborate with REI Senior Leaders and Leadership Forum to create actionable divisional strategic plans.
• Acts as the financial thought-leader and initiative driver for divisions; divisional financial voice to senior executives.
• Develop and implement new investment and profitability frameworks and metrics.
• Coordinate regular updates to financial forecasts with Senior Leaders.
• Lead, communicate, implement and execute the corporate budget cycle to support REI’s strategic initiatives at the SLT level
• Support Board and Audit and Finance Committee as assigned.
• Oversee the monthly operational review and communicate findings to senior management.
• Accountable for monthly reporting
• Accountable for monthly working plan accuracy.
• Provides leadership and direction through Managers and Analysts.
• Accountable for the performance and results of a strategic financial discipline.
• Adapts and executes functional or departmental business plans and contributes to the development of functional or departmental strategies.
• Decisions are guided by functional strategies and priorities
Bring your passion and expertise
• 10-15 years of financial planning and analysis experience in Accounting/Finance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or similar MBA or similar certification Proven success executing a corporate-wide budget cycle
• Demonstrated ability to identify, analyze and objectively solve problems using sound judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience interfacing with Board of Directors and senior management professionals.
• Ability to effectively handle multiple competing priorities and deadlines under pressure
• Demonstrated effective leadership, supervising and interpersonal skills to instruct or assign work to others, motivate and coach, and evaluate work performance.
• Advanced PC experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Essbase, SAP, and/or equivalent planning and ERP systems
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Experience working in retail industry.
• Builds capacity of individuals and teams through effective employee development, involvement, communication, and supervision efforts.
• Creates a strong, mutually supportive work spirit and culture where people can do their best. Establishes trust and inspires others.
• Makes effective organization and people decisions in a manner consistent with REI's values and ethics.
• Delivers on commitments and holds others to same.
• Champions the organization and advocates solutions in the overall Company's best interest.
• Uses business knowledge, innovative thinking, and sound judgment in the solution of problems or the pursuit of business opportunities.
• Consolidates information from various sources including feedback from others to reach sound decisions.
• Considers the ultimate impact of decisions and actions on internal and external customers.
• Fosters change in company direction.
• Effectively plans and executes changes.
Why you'll love it here
We’re a passionate community of people who believe in one simple truth: an outdoor life is a life well-lived. REI is a co-op, born in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest in 1938. We’re here to help our over 6 million active members have amazing experiences outside—and do the same ourselves. Bring your creativity, customer focus and enthusiasm for living life outdoors—we can’t wait to meet you!