Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd

Lead Finance Enterprise

Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd • $100K — $130K *
Katy, TX 77449In-Person
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
3 weeks ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent required
  • MBA/MSF or CPA preferred
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in finance-related roles
  • Preferred FP&A experience; Strategy, Consulting, or Investment Banking considered
  • Retail or e-commerce background beneficial

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and support annual planning and forecasting processes for internal partners
  • Own financial planning processes for business partners
  • Produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly executive reports
  • Consolidate and analyze departmental forecasts
  • Lead business decision support for marketing planning
  • Collaborate with senior management to define business strategies
  • Establish timelines and deliverables, holding leaders accountable
  • Provide financial support for feasibility analysis and business case development

Benefits

  • Company policies include regular attendance and acceptable hearing and vision requirements
  • Adherence to professional staff behavior policies
  • Opportunities for process improvements within the organization
  • Engagement in new FP&A initiatives
Full Job Description
Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent required
  • MBA/MSF or CPA preferred


Work Experiences:
  • At least eight (8) years of experience, including planning, forecasting, analyzing reporting and business partnering
  • Previous FP&A/Corporate Finance experience preferred while Strategy/management consulting, Investment Banking will be considered
  • Retail/e-commerce experience a plus


Skills:
  • Ability to partner effectively with all lines of business internally and interface with clients and vendors
  • Strategic thinker who can also understand tactical delivery of analysis as needed
  • Track record of delivering high-impact results year-over-year
  • Excellent written, verbal, listening and presentation skills
  • Ability to analyze financial data, prepare financial reports, statements and projections
  • Ability to formulate, initiate, administer policies and procedures for effective fiscal control
  • Can handle a high degree of complexity and ambiguity and translate to simplification
  • Hard-working and results-oriented
  • Creativity, flexibility and an entrepreneurial mindset to the solution of business issues; sound business judgment
  • Analytical and process-improvement oriented
  • Thorough knowledge of financial statements, accounting principles, credit policy practices, and industry data sources.
  • Ability to apply numerical and analytical skills to support ideas and portfolio performance
  • Ability and proven skill in developing and applying complex models to measure risk
  • Possess strong interpersonal skills and be able to establish strong relationships with your team, peers and senior management
  • Ability to work in an extremely fast paced team environment, deliver under considerable time pressure and ability to embrace constructive feedback
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Team oriented with ability to work well with diverse groups


Responsibilities:
  • Analyze and support annual planning and monthly forecasting processes and models for financial and internal planning partners, including examining wide sources of data and translating it into meaningful and useful insights for internal business partners
  • Ownership of financial planning support for internal business partners
  • Produce the delivery of weekly, monthly and quarterly executive reporting including but not limited to monthly performance reporting, corporate goals reporting and other ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests
  • Consolidate and analyze departmental/function plans and forecasts
  • Business decision support lead for marketing planning functional areas
  • Collaborate and provide guidance to senior management teams to help them define and enable business strategies
  • Establish clear ownership, timelines, and deliverables and hold business leaders accountable
  • Leverage internal and external networks to maximize the achievement of business goals
  • Responsible for providing support for Budget to Actual/Open to Buy, forecast alignment, and adjusted margin data
  • Respond to specific requests by leadership for insights on key priority topics
  • Responsible for providing financial support related to feasibility analysis, Budget to Actual/Open to Buy, ROI, margin implementation, business case development, and ensuring soundness of process used to drive financial results from projects
  • Focus with business partners to drive accurate forecasting & long-term vision to ensure financial targets are met
  • Identify and drive process improvements within the organization
  • Actively participate in new FP&A initiatives
  • Required to learn company policies, procedures and safety rules
  • Duties may change and Team Members may be required to perform other duties as assigned


Physical Requirements & Attendance:
  • Regular attendance required
  • Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
  • Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior

About Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a premier sports, outdoor and lifestyle retailer with a broad assortment of quality hunting, fishing, and camping equipment and gear along with sports and leisure products, footwear, apparel and much more. The Texas-based company operates over 250 stores throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, where the company is headquartered. Academy employs more than 29,000 team members and is committed to providing exceptional customer service, offering an unparalleled assortment of top brands, and promoting active lifestyles through its community involvement.
Learn more about Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd
Size
29,000 employees
Market Cap
$4 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Founded
1938
5 Year Trend
+7.4%
Revenue
$5.4 billion
NASDAQ
ASO
* Ladders Estimates

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