What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Manager, FP&A position at RG Barry Brands?
What You’ll Do
The Sr. Manager, FP&A is a critical part of Finance, responsible for partnering with Brand Leadership through financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and ad-hoc analysis. This is a highly visible role that partners with business leadership to provide financial guidance and support to achieve the company’s strategic and financial goals. Teamwork, communication, and analytical skills are required as well as a self-starter who works well independently and under tight deadlines. This position is a hybrid-role.
Specific Responsibilities
- Manages the financial budget, forecast, and actualization in support of Business Unit Leadership
- Prepares and reviews weekly, monthly, and quarterly internal and external sales reporting.
- Works with business unit leader to develop financial targets, metrics, and reporting to facilitate the strategic plans of the company.
- Provides ad-hoc analysis to provide insights that influence strategies and investment decisions to maximize profitability.
- Reviews and manages departmental level expenses, ensuring that forecasted and actualized expenses align to expectations in order to achieve the company’s financial goals.
- Ensures effective financial processes; supports a continuous improvement environment identifying and implementation new or enhanced processes, with current or future tools.
Qualifications
- Requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university and 8 years of financial planning and analysis experience or Advanced Degree from an accredited university and 5 years financial planning and analysis experience.
- Must be a creative thinker with a willingness to challenge the current way of doing things; ability and willingness to drive change and think outside of the box.
- Experience applying AI and advanced analytics to automate data preparation, financial modeling, and management reporting, with demonstrated results in reducing manual effort and accelerating planning and reporting cycles.
- Needs to have strong interpersonal skills and the confidence to work with senior management or department/business unit leaders.
- Needs strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial metrics into operational insight.
- Must have experience coaching and mentoring employees.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft applications, experience with Sigma or Net Suite Planning and Budgeting a plus.
- Retail/wholesale industry experience preferred.
- Alignment with RG Barry’s values of trust, ambition, inclusion, creativity, responsibility, and teamwork