Director of Financial Planning and Analysis will develop, maintain and update critical reporting tools that enable the Company to produce timely and accurate business reports that help drive forecasting, planning, and analytical initiatives to improve our business. This individual will provide day-to-day strategic support and ad hoc analysis. This individual will have a significant role in the financial analysis of the business strategies, long-range plans/budgets/forecasts/store goals.
• Play a key role in developing and maintaining the infrastructure that generates critical business reports.
• Provide the data and reports to parent company in Lucerne accurately and timely to populate the global databases.
• Lead the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts and quarterly store goal setting.
• Lead the development of weekly and monthly, brand and category reports by region and channel.
• Produce and distribute monthly financial reports to the stores as required and answer any store queries.
• Work closely with accounting to provide input on management reporting needs and better understanding of actuals. Support month end close process including expense and variance analyses in partnership with Accounting.
• Prepare analyses and commentary for quarterly board presentations.
• Analyze brands performance, including Sales, Margin, Inventory, Marketing ROI, and channel results.
• Collaborate with all functions to analyze business performance, and identify and report unusual trends and activities
• Anticipate needs of business partners and prioritize efforts to deliver results.
• Maintain detail financial planning and reporting models.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly operational and financial results, including KPIs and business drivers including written commentary for executive presentation.
• Develop sophisticated financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives.
• Help drive requirements and implementation for financial planning and business intelligence systems
• Respond to all internal and external requests in a timely manner.
• All other Ad Hoc functions as given from time to time.

Qualifications:
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience for a medium to large size company.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or business administration.
• Must have advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills and knowledge of D365, SQL or MS Access is a plus.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize team towards success.
• Excellent analytical and modeling skills and a strong understanding of operational accounting and finance concepts like accruals, PO process, and variance analyses.
• People management experience - hiring, mentoring, building and managing a team

Compensation Range: $140,000 - $185,000/year