Senior Manager - Fuel For Growth

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

OVERVIEW:

Champion for Driving Merch Margin & Operating Expense Opportunities

• Lead the Fuel For Growth initiative in ensuring long term savings goals are accomplished

• Work with FP&A and business leaders to ensure savings are captured and layered into the Budget / Forecast

• Develop and maintain weekly / monthly business reporting and dashboards to identify areas that are not pacing toward their goals and risks to the forecast / long term model

CapEx (efficiency improvement)

• Partner with business leaders to ensure we are cost engineering our Capital Expenditures and getting an adequate Return on Investment

• Identify obsolete assets that can be candidates for impairment

Working Capital Opportunities

• Lead the analysis on identifying opportunities to improve our working capital as a company

• Become the lead advocate for changing our business processes for maximizing working capital

Strategic Initiative Effectiveness

• Develop regular reporting for monitoring progress and financial impact of our key strategic initiatives to gain alignment of senior management

• Incorporate projections of costs and benefits of strategic initiatives into the long term model

Drive EBT Improvements and other Financial Responsibilities

• Drive results and overall improvements through Merch Margin & Operating Expense

• CapEx

• Working Capital

• Partner with business areas to capture earnings forecast trends, risks, and opportunities

• Become an expert in the underlying details of the income statement

• Identify and explain key drivers of P&L variances versus budget and last year

• Effectively communicate the details of the earnings forecast to C-Suite executives

• Analyze and proactively address forecast accuracy issues

Financial Reporting and Long-Term Modeling:

• Manage the long-term planning process and work within the FP&A and Finance Teams along with various leaders across the business to gather information and build assumptions to support the financial model.

• Partner with FP&A Teams to consolidate all business area projections to produce total enterprise income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

• Develop and present executive-level scenario analysis in support of long-term strategic discussions. Utilize knowledge of financial interdependencies between income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement to develop or re-engineer modeling approaches to increase efficiency or support emerging business initiatives.

• Lead efforts to develop Board and C-Suite financial presentations including monthly and quarterly results, earnings forecasts, external guidance, annual budgets, etc.

• Be an expert at clearly communicating a message to a C-Suite audience

• Utilize external investor analysis to help inform messaging on financial performance and investment strategies

• Collaborate with business areas to incorporate relevant information into presentations

• Create insightful executive-level PowerPoint presentations

• Analyze business financial risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to executive team

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Project Management, or related field

• 7-10 years of experience, including 3-5 years of experience in areas such as Financial Planning, Corporate Finance, Project Management