What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Finance position at Athleta?
About the Role
As Manager of Strategic Finance, you will lead Athleta’s forecast process for revenue as well as key drivers of revenue for the US and CA Online businesses. You will also be a key contributor to the Online gross margin and inventory forecast plan and ultimately be responsible for communicating and driving these plans forward with business partners. You are a highly strategic and influential partner to Athleta’s Online GM, various Marketing partners and finance leadership. In this highly visible and cross-functional role, you are critical in bringing Athleta’s priorities to life and ensuring we continue to accelerate our growth plan.
What You'll Do
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Scope: Total Athleta, North America, Online channel with a focus on revenue (demand and net) and oversight to gross margin and inventory.
- Lead the Online forecasting and business hindsighting processes through thoughtful and actionable business analysis and cross-functional leadership.
- Be a strategic and influential business partner. Your ability to influence is critical to success in this role.
- Effectively articulate insights and size risks/opportunities both short term and long term. Leverage insights to drive outcomes to help action on risk/opportunities.
- Produce ad hoc financial models and analyses that clearly quantify the cost / benefit of initiatives. Initiate analyses to solve problems, create alternatives, and provide recommendations based on your analytics.
- Routine processes include: Weekly Business Reviews and forecast, Daily Forecasts, Monthly Forecasts, Annual Budget, Seasonal Planning.
- Own daily and weekly monitoring of sales, levers, margin, and inventory trends for the Online Channel.
- Advance, standardize and maintain forecast tools and reporting.
- Cultivate an inclusive, creative, and results-oriented work environment with a strong commitment to our brand values and our mission “To ignite a community of active, healthy, confident women and girls who empower each other to realize their limitless potential”.
WHO YOU ARE
- You’re a detail-oriented, insightful, and analytical thought partner with high proficiency in financial modeling and forecasting.
- You are strategic and have the ability to influence business partners in the organization.
- The ability to influence in a role excites you.
- You are curious and challenge the status quo. You take thoughtful risks, learn quickly, and take swift action.
- You have strong technical aptitude, including the ability to learn and master company systems/tools and build out new ones as necessary to adapt to a fast-changing environment.
- You’re a great storyteller; you make sense of a vast range of information from multiple sources and provide a simple, accurate, and compelling recommendation to a variety of audiences
- You have an ability to manage multiple work streams with tight timelines.
- You operate well in a fast paced environment.
- You’re a team player with a positive attitude and proven ability to develop effective and influential business relationships at all levels of the organization.
- 5 years of financial planning, forecasting and analysis experience in retail required. Online experience a must.
- Very strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Essbase and NOVA a plus.
Who You Are
Salary : $91,100 - $131,400
