Analyst, FP&A
Stuart Weitzman is synonymous with modern femininity. For more than 35 years, the red-carpet favorite brand has designed products that inspire women to feel beautiful on their own terms by mastering the art of melding fashion, function and fit. The brand’s empowering approach to style has resonated globally, as SW’s fashion-forward collections are sold in more than 100 retail stores, primarily in North America, Europe, and mainland China, global e-commerce platforms, and retail and distributor partners. In every facet of the brand, its collaborative teams located all over the world are committed to creating luxurious accessories that women of all lifestyles and cultural backgrounds can rely on to take bold and inspiring steps in their own lives every day.
Stuart Weitzman is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.
Job Title: Analyst, FP&A
Primary Purpose: The Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst will support the goals and objectives of the ecommerce team and global organization through financial planning, reporting, and analysis. The successful candidate will create reporting and analyses designed to improve operating performance for the company. This role requires a significant level of accuracy and attention to detail as well as creative problem solving abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare monthly P&L reporting, validate financials, organize financial presentations, create commentary around monthly performance
- Assist with monthly financial uploads for forecasts
- Consolidation of CFO reporting package monthly
- Lead and coordinate the various teams involved in the eCommerce monthly sales and KPIs forecast process
- Create models to evaluate impact of strategic business initiatives and track success post implementation
- Partner with accounting during the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes to ensure accuracy of financial reporting
- Assist business partners with long range planning, annual budget, and monthly forecasting processes
- Actively collaborate with business partners to adhere to budget and identify financial risks and opportunities
- Identify, track and analyze key metrics that impact the business
- Lead the preparation of monthly financial meetings with business partners
- Provide ad hoc reporting and analytical support
- Research forecast variances to determine key drivers and provide feedback to management
- Identify areas to optimize and reduce total company spend
The accomplished individual will possess:
- 1-3 Years prior experience in financial role
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or similar
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- General accounting knowledge
- Flexibility to deal with range of issues both financial and non-financial
- Ability to work effectively with multiple priorities and timelines
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Self-motivated and self-directed, with a positive attitude
- Accepts responsibility, accountability and takes pride in their work
- Solid proficiency in Microsoft Excel
- Macro & VBA knowledge a plus
- SAP/BPC experience a plus
An outstanding professional will have:
- Ability to identify business needs and process improvements based on trends, propose solutions and manage cross-functional projects to completion
- Outstanding analytical skills and proven track record of utilizing insights from data collection to create strategic initiatives and action plans
- Ability to clearly communicate ideas, build and maintain effective working relationships with team members and peers across the organization
Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; is not upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Stuart Weitzman is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. #LI - YA1 Visit Stuart Weitzman at www.stuartweitzman.com.
