The North Face: Director, FPA Global Brands

Director of FP&A: Become the Newest Member of the VF Family

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What will you do?

The global brands financial planning and analysis team serves as the critical partner for the brand’s global leadership team. The team is responsible for the development and analysis of all strategic, financial, and operational aspects of the brand’s Global business. The Director of FP&A will lead the financial planning process of the strategic future year plans, model new growth vectors and opportunities for continuous improvement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to monitor progress against these growth initiatives.  This will include financial checkpoints throughout the product creation process with a key focus on margin expansion, product KPI’s linked to the LRP, and financial gaps versus the strategic outlook.  This individual will work closely and collaboratively with global brand leaders, global Merchandising Planning & Operations, Strategy, Supply chain and regional finance teams.    

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

• Establish 3 year rolling financial plan (LRP) partnering with global strategy, global merch planning & Ops, product, supply chain and regional finance teams. Understand brand strategy and influence plans through a financial lens.
• Analyze short term (actual and forecast) and long term (annual plan and strategic plan) business trends in all channels utilizing KPIs from multiple sources across the business and provide creative and innovation solutions that impact the business.
• Understand all aspects and strategies of the brand and support global brand Presidents with BOD, ELT and ad hoc request/analysis through earnings and monthly/quarterly meeting cadence.  Understand which channels and product could potentially accelerate and impact the business metrics.
• Establish key milestones where finance can "influence" or drive additional perspective on margin expansion.  This will include monitoring KPI’s which influence global pricing architecture, design to value, sourcing, fabric buys, price point adoption, regional line adoption, and checkpoints against growth initiatives.
• Monitor/control global brand costs global marketing spend, product (design, merch, innovation, sustainability, etc) and Marketing teams.  Define and align with HR hiring/promotion process to establish clear visibility/support for global brand President and leadership team. 
• Support Global DT/SC on future investments needs (regional/global roll-up) to set brand driven expectations based on strategic initiatives and growth drivers.
• Support global initiatives and savings across PDP, fixtures, and additional consolidation efforts to region/global P&L’s.
• Establish standardized global cost framework to enable clear accountability and comparison of Global and regional cost structures within the brand.
• Support global Go-to-Market (GTM) process providing feedback and sharing gaps versus 3YP assumptions and updating rolling models based on adjustments to growth initiatives and assortment.
• Coordinate and consolidate the brand’s global financials to ensure a holistic view of the brands’ current performance against prior year and financial plan.  This will including building global commentary on key financial variances with a focus on consumer/marketing, product, and marketplace.
• Drive adherence to operating budgets and achieve annual SG&A savings goals to fuel further brand investment.
• Coordinate, consolidate and provide product-level revenue reporting to support Global brand leaders and various GTM, GSM, and other commercial planning processes.
• Manage one Sr. analyst and assist in the development of department personnel through mentoring, teaching, support of department initiatives, and positive attitude.
• Support business partners with key strategic initiatives and ad hoc requests through data gathering, analytics and putting together a business case for review by Senior Management.
• Analyze short term (actual and forecast) and long term (annual plan and strategic plan) business trends in all channels utilizing KPIs from multiple sources across the business.

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