Sr. Analyst, FP&A

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 

 

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Primary Purpose: The Senior Analyst, FP&A will play a critical role in assisting the coordination and execution of business planning, forecasting, financial reporting and analysis across the Kate Spade North America Direct to Consumer (DTC) business. This role will provide finance support to internal business partners, providing thoughtful analysis and insight into business trends. This position is responsible for supporting total North America DTC reporting requirements, consolidating and analyzing month end results, managing the consolidated North America monthly and quarterly forecast, annual operating plan and long-range planning process and special projects. This role will provide finance support to senior management through internal financial presentations, and thoughtful analysis and insight into business trends. This role will report to the Director, FP&A.

 

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Finance to...

 

• Own Kate Spade North America consolidation process for month-end close and communicate results to broader Finance organization and Senior Management. 

• Establish strong financial partnerships across the North America business and provide analytical support to drive business initiatives and achieve financial targets.

• Prepare consolidated North America company forecasts and budgets, track them against actual performance to deliver insight to be used by upper management.

• Prepare monthly financial presentations, including summarizing and explaining variances and material changes to prior forecasts to be provided for corporate submission to Tapestry.

• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators to help identify potential risks or opportunities to the North America forecast.

• Develop and report accurate and timely financial and business metrics for monthly, quarter and annual reviews

• Develop ad-hoc business analysis to provide insight to business leaders.

• Drive initiatives to streamline processes, maintain and improve upon existing financial model.

• Articulate financial concepts to non-finance business partners in a clear and concise manner.

 

The accomplished individual will possess…

 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain business partner relationships at all levels within the organization

• Strong business acumen and know that problem-solving goes beyond numbers. Ability to think through multiple scenarios and apply strategic judgment to projects

• Highly organized and detail-oriented with excellent time management skills. Ability to multitask, prioritize workload and problem-solve in a fast-paced environment

• The capability to identify key insights and present them in an easily digestible format appropriate for the audience

• Intellectual curiosity, eagerness to learn and a desire to be a team player

 

 

An outstanding professional will have...