About this role
What We Do – Accountabilities
- Assures alignment between company-wide financial objectives and business partner strategic and operations goals to drive the company toward its short and long-term objectives
- Assures all financial implications of potential decisions are considered in helping direct the thought process and actions of key business leaders/partners
- Assures the development of company operating plans, forecasts, and budgets, connecting the dots between investments and future returns and aligned with company capital allocation objectives
- Assures the evolution of the consolidated FP&A function of the company, including a) providing proactive analyses of business issues and opportunities, b) developing corporate level dashboards incorporating operational metrics, c) incorporating external market data into financial processes, d) among others
Essential Functions
- Develop, implement and maintain an effective planning and analysis capability that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of the Company’s businesses.
- Routinely communicate business, financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics. Suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications.
- Develop processes, metrics, etc. to manage all aspects of financial support for the marketing team company-wide, including cost management, ensuring financial return on investment, etc.
- Lead scenario modeling efforts for the development and growth of the company.
- Prepare presentations in support of Board of Director and other executive meetings.
- Develop and execute processes to allow for routine analytical reviews of company financial and operational performance, leveraging analytical resources and tools.
- Monitor performance and competitive dynamics of companies that are strategic partners & competitors.
- Analyze internal forecasts and estimates compared to analyst expectations and provide insight into potential discrepancies.
- Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses and capital expenditures
- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
- Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis
- Provide support as needed to the executive leadership team
Preferred Qualifications & Education
- Finance or Economics Degree; MBA preferred
- 7+ years of experience in financial planning, consulting, strategy
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with a variety of business functions and levels
Physical Requirements and/or Environment
- Cubicle Office
Caleres is an Equal Opportunity Employer by choice. We believe our company should be as diverse as the consumers we serve. We seek and engage talented individuals from all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, lifestyles, and belief systems.
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