Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (Finance)

Our values start with our people, join a team that values you! Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high-quality brands and on-trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. Our commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, and our community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger. We strive to be a positive force in our community.

Our Corporate headquarters are in Dublin, CA, we have 3 buying offices in key markets in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, and 8 distribution centers nationwide. With 2023 revenues of $20.4 billion, we are a Fortune 500 company who is committed to providing an inclusive work environment with continuous learning opportunities and development for our teams. The Company seeks an intellectually curious and self-motivated Manager to join a high performing team responsible for the long-term planning, forecasting, and reporting processes at Ross.

This candidate will work cross-functionally across the business to deliver comprehensive financials and supporting analyses to senior leadership. The ideal candidate must have a background in Finance, possess strong analytical and communication skills, and be able to partner effectively with stakeholders across the organization. The Manager will report to the Senior Director FP&A and interact frequently with other executives within Finance.

Long Term Planning / Annual Budgeting
Develop budget guidance for the planning process
Set targets and issue challenges to business partners
Prepare Executive level presentations and support materials for our annual Board Meetings. Engage with business partners to understand and explain all substantial forecast changes to senior leadership
Support the CFO and Investor Relations team by providing forecasted financial statements, earnings guidance models, and earnings scenarios.

Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial reports including analysis of business performance, inventory levels, and balance sheet data
Building Effective Teams
Business Acumen
Analysis & Judgment
Planning & Organizing
Strong familiarity with core financial planning and analysis processes including budgeting, forecasting and financial control process design
Prior experience with EPM software (e.g. Hyperion, Cognos, TM1, SAP, etc.) Outstanding analytical ability – must have a data driven approach to solving problems.

Requires very strong quantitative skills, a good sense of how to dissect problems and a strong ability to “connect the dots” – e.g. understand how pieces of data interact with each other or how one finding should inform the result of another analysis
An ideal candidate understands the intricacies of a retail P&L and balance sheet including margin, store and supply chain cost drivers. This person will preferably understand and appreciate the nuances and financial operating requirements of an off-price, low-cost retail operator.

Excellent communication skills – must be able to clearly communicate results and implications of analysis verbally and in writing
Relationship building – needs to be able to build effective working relationships with a broad range of people across the organization
Strong fundamental business technical skills – must have very strong Excel modeling skills, proficiency in PowerPoint and have an ability to learn Hyperion
Demonstrated ability to use discretion in handling highly sensitive confidential information
Bachelor’s degree required (preferably in an analytical field such as Finance, Economics, Accounting, etc.)
CPA or MBA preferred
Job requires ability to work in an office environment, primarily on a computer
Requires sitting, standing, walking, hearing, talking on the telephone, attending in-person meetings, typing, and working with paper/files, etc
This role requires regular in-office presence, including to engage in in-person team interaction, meetings and collaboration, client support, mentoring, coaching, and/or feedback
However, this role can perform duties effectively using a combination of in-office and remote work
Contents are subject to change at management's discretion.

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