Senior Analyst, FP&A

Before You Apply: This position requires the employee to work onsite at our Birmingham, AL headquarters. Candidates seeking remote or hybrid-only opportunities may not find this role to be a fit. Summary The Senior Analyst, FP&A - Finance oversees the organization's financial planning and analysis, offering analytical support. This role involves constructing budgets and forecasts at both the company and department levels, extracting and analyzing financial data to discern business trends and opportunities, calculating essential operating metrics that monitor the business's health and profitability, and aiding in the development of presentations and ad-hoc analyses for management's use in discussions with external investors and analysts. Essential Duties And Responsibilities Develop company and department level budgets and forecasts Create bottoms up sales plans by store and by channel Align with business stakeholders on KPIs and seasonality of sales for Top Down Plan Help calibrate sales plans with store operations incentive plans and labor scheduling. Gather, organize, and present financial data to support the annual budget and periodic forecasting process in an accurate and timely manner. Construct and uphold annual budget models, develop periodic forecast models grounded in current trends and projections, and formulate predictive models to evaluate the feasibility of prospective initiatives or projects. Conduct periodic reviews of results with department heads to improve the accuracy of forecasts. Compile and analyze financial reports and operational metrics. Identify trends, anomalies, and discrepancies that require management attention. Independently assess and effectively communicate the competitive performances and valuation metrics that are relevant to the Company. Present reliable conclusions to support management assessment of financial and operational performance. Create a standardized suite of period-end reports to aid executives, operational managers, and department heads in assessing performance against budget and forecast projections. Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools and Excel models. Develop presentations and reports that accurately reflect the state of the business to the Board of Directors, internal stakeholders and third-party investors and analysts. Create actuals versus budgeted expense variance analysis reports Utilize predictive analytics to analyze large data sets to aid in budgeting, forecasting, and to improve efficiencies throughout the organization. Perform ad-hoc analysis and reporting as needed across the enterprise Create a financial package for the month-end, which includes key performance indicators, which is used to report results to the executive team and board of directors. Protect the company's assets and financial information by ensuring the accuracy and effectiveness of internal control procedures and informing management and/or appropriate officials of potential fraud risk. Supervisory Responsibilities No supervisory responsibilities. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or a related field or equivalent experience 5 to 7 years' related experience. Hands-on experience with large ERP systems preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr Hibbett