Senior Analyst, FP&A

Stuart Weitzman shoes are designed for high fashion and high function. Known for over 35 years for it's artisanal Spanish craftsmanship and precisely-engineered fit, the luxury footwear brand inspires women around the world to shine with confidence with every step.

Stuart Weitzman is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

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Primary Purpose: The Financial Planning & Analysis Manager will support the goals and objectives of the North America Store Operations Team, Global Visual Merchandising Team, and Global Marketing/Communications/PR 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
• Coordinate monthly accruals across Store Operations, Visual Merchandising, Global Marketing
• Consolidation of the Global Marketing forecast for the CMO
• Lead the monthly forecast for Visual Merchandising for the Head of VM monthly
• Lead and coordinate the store operations team in the monthly sales and KPIs forecast process as well as labor planning
• Provide reporting on store level performance weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually
• 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 and meetings of monthly financial review with business partners such as VP of Store operations, Head of Global Real Estate, and CMO of SW
• 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:

• 3-5 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

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• 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.
• 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.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or employeerelations@tapestry.com

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Work Setup: Hybrid #LI-HYBRID

BASE PAY RANGE $85,000.00 TO $93,000.00 Annually
Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.