Sr Analyst, Company Planning for Banana Republic

Gap, Inc.

$90K — $120K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2–4 years of relevant finance or inventory management experience
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
  • Detail-oriented with trend identification skills
  • Proven relationship-building and influencing capabilities
  • Ability to independently solve problems and prioritize tasks
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Essbase is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Develop detailed sales, margin, lever, and inventory plans aligning with brand strategy
  • Analyze business results against plans regularly and provide actionable recommendations
  • Initiate analyses with a growth mindset to support leadership decisions
  • Collaborate with Inventory Management to ensure alignment with financial targets
  • Build ad-hoc projections and offer decision support to leadership
  • Partner across teams on commercial plans and marketing initiatives
  • Integrate top-down analysis with business drivers for comprehensive planning

Benefits

  • Opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Exposure to strategic decision-making processes
  • Involvement in high-level forecasting and financial planning
  • Ability to impact brand growth directly through data-driven recommendations
  • Work in an innovative environment that encourages new ideas and process improvements
Full Job Description
About the Role
The Company Planning team collaborates with business partners across the organization to drive decisions aimed at maximizing sales and profitability. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the brand's planning and forecasting processes, playing a critical part in ensuring consistent and constant growth for the brand. Responsibilities include tops-down sales, margin and inventory forecasts as well as financial analysis, diagnosing trends and recommending forward actions.What You'll Do
  • Develop detailed Sales, margin, lever and inventory plans (annual, month, day levels) that align with the brand's business strategy

  • Recap and analyze business results vs. plan on a daily/monthly/quarterly and ad-hoc basis, providing actionable recommendations to deliver company objectives

  • Initiate analyses with a growth mindset to solve problems, create alternatives, and provide recommendations to leadership based on quantitative and objective analysis

  • Collaborate with Inventory Management to ensure merchandise plans align with financial targets

  • Build ad-hoc projections and provide decision support to brand leadership and functional partners

  • Partner with cross-functional teams on commercial plan, marketing and strategic initiatives to ensure profitable decision making and incorporation into plans.

  • Integrate tops down analysis with detailed business drivers to formulate comprehensive company plans, particularly at the daily level in a highly commercial plan and value-driven brand

Who You Are
  • Strong analytical, financial modeling, and critical thinking skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to clearly explain financial concepts to non-finance partners

  • Detail-oriented, with the ability to identify trends, irregularities, and synthesize business performance into actionable insights

  • Proven relationship builder who can influence and lead cross-functional teams

  • Self-motivated, accountable, and able to independently solve problems and prioritize multiple projects under tight timelines

  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity

  • Naturally curiosity, diagnosing problems and driving process/ tool improvements with new ideas

  • Advanced technical aptitude, especially in Microsoft Excel; quick to learn new systems and optimize tools (Essbase experience a plus)

  • 2–4 years of relevant finance or inventory management experience

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