Senior Financial Analyst

Overview

REI Co-op is united around finding, building, and celebrating better ways of working. This helps people find and enjoy a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with support to live your best life. You also help shape the future of the outdoors for people and the planet.

This Senior Financial Analyst role helps REI succeed by providing timely, accurate, and decision-focused financial analysis for the CMO organization. This role supports Membership (loyalty program), Cobranded Credit Card, and Gift Card. This role works closely with business leaders to deliver core FP&A support, including financial planning, reporting, and investment examination. The role also focuses on advancing the Co-op’s long-range strategic goals, such as program ROI, best member growth, and member lifetime value. Overall, the role combines core FP&A duties with strategic finance support for the CMO organization.

Responsibilities And Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Provide financial and data-backed support for Retail Loyalty (Membership), Customer Planning, Co-branded Credit Card, and Gift Card programs.
• Support the development and execution of the Co-op’s strategic growth plans. Partner with others to evaluate investments and assess new business models. Focus on customer acquisition, engagement, and lifetime value.
• Build financial models, create business cases, and examine data to drive actionable insights for leadership decisions.
• Partner with and manage cross-functional teams in all execution phases. This includes diligence, business case creation, financial modeling, planning, and integration.
• Drive proactive ad-hoc financial analysis by identifying needed information. Find where the data is located. Conclude how to compile, examine, and present it.
• Own the set-up, creation and execution of strategic planning, budgeting, and subsequent intra-year forecasting of processes and tools.
• Partner with department managers to set best practices for expense tracking and performance measurement. Reinforce a solid focus on forecast accuracy, financial discipline, and ROI.
• Produce budget justification review utilized by the Leadership Team to review, prioritize and make recommendations on the proposed operating budget.
• Produce regular co-op reporting including Board Packets, Business Reviews, and key operational dashboards.
• Identify financial impact of strategic goals, which are to be factored into the multi-year strategic plan.
• Compile monthly reporting for each department that explains P&L variances and solicit feedback for forecasting.
• Interact with internal and external auditors, providing data and explanations on processes flows.
• Make recommendations guided by policies, procedures, business plans, and guidance from Manager.
  
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 4 years of financial planning and examination experience in Accounting/Finance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or similar
• Proven success executing a corporate-wide budget cycle
• Demonstrated ability to identify, examine and objectively solve problems using sound judgment
• Ability to effectively handle multiple contending priorities and deadlines under pressure
• Advanced PC experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Creates an exceptional, mutually supportive work spirit and culture where people can do their best
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or similar certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience interfacing with Board of Directors and senior management professionals
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP, and/or equivalent planning and ERP systems
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Experience working in the retail industry
• Experience working with retail loyalty, co-branded credit card and gift card programs
  
  
  

Closing

At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

Pay Transparency

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

Pay Range

$85,400.00 - $136,700.00 per year