Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd

Sr Analyst Financial Planning and Analysis

Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd$70K — $95K *
Katy, TX 77449In-Person
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration required
  • 3 years of planning, forecasting, and business partnering experience
  • Previous FP&A or Corporate Finance experience is essential
  • Retail or e-commerce experience is preferred
  • Proven ability to analyze financial data and prepare comprehensive reports

Responsibilities

  • Analyze annual planning and monthly forecasting processes for business partners
  • Provide ongoing financial planning support to internal teams
  • Deliver executive reports and ad-hoc analysis regularly
  • Consolidate and analyze departmental forecasts and plans
  • Interact with senior management to define business strategies
  • Establish timelines and accountability for business leaders
  • Drive accurate forecasting and ensure financial targets are met

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment
  • Opportunities for process improvement
  • Engagement in new FP&A initiatives
  • Access to internal and external networks to achieve business goals
  • Focus on personal and professional growth through feedback and results-oriented culture
Full Job Description

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent required

Work Experiences:

  • Three (3) years of experience, including planning, forecasting, analyzing reporting and business partnering
  • Previous FP&A or Corporate Finance experience required
  • 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
  • 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
  • Provide 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
  • Interact regularly with 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/forecast to actual and forecast alignment
  • Respond to specific requests by leadership for insights on key priority topics
  • 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
Founded
1938
5 Year Trend
+7.4%
Revenue
$5.4 billion
NASDAQ

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