Sr. Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Company Description

At National Vision we believe everyone deserves to see their best to live their best. We help people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible. National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,200 stores. We operate four retail brands: America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, and Vista Optical inside select Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

We are hiring for a Sr. Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to join our growing team!

Job Description

This position will lead the FP&A Revenue team, which supports our Retail Stores, Regions, and Divisions. This leader owns and drives site-level planning and forecasting for our brands (~1,200 stores) and is a major input to our overall budget and planning process. This role acts as both a business partner to the field (brand leaders and head of stores) and a "bridge" back to the Executive Leadership Team. The FP&A Revenue group provides support, insights and recommendations to management for optimal business decision making as well as explaining the "why" of our financial results. This person must have a deep understanding and care about the drivers / levers of the business and how that translates to financial success, including Revenue and Expense components. This position will report to the VP of FP&A and manage a group of 4 finance professionals.

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

• Own, manage, and drive the Store level planning and forecasting functions.
• Continually improve our driver-based models for forecasting and planning (ex: Doctor labor planning, Store Associate labor planning). Work with Marketing to better connect customer activity / inputs to Revenue model.
• Partner with the other portions of FP&A team, particularly Corporate, Consolidations & Reporting.
• Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to senior management for decision making purposes
• Motivate and develop a team of 4 FP&A professionals; assess optimal team structure for long-term success.
• Leads the development and maintenance of detailed current year and long-term forecasting models.
• Demonstrate understanding of SSS / comparable store growth and new store ramps as well as capacity and demand planning.
• Leads the development of financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and senior management; understands how (and directs) those models informing financial plans
• Provides business unit efficiency modeling; general ideas for financial improvement / margin expansion.
• Demonstrate curiosity and ability to dig into root-cause analysis; underperforming stores, labor analytics, etc.
• Balance between strategic approach and tactical (shorter term) needs.
• Partner with Operations initiative team for Remote Medicine; integrate thinking around Remote medicine through driver-based models.
• Assist in building forecasting capabilities to fit our needs in new ERP (Oracle EPM)
• Builds strong relationships across the business, including Finance and other functions such as Marketing and Operations.
• Ad hoc projects, data requests, and reporting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years progressive Finance/Accounting Experience (Required)
• 4-6 years experience as in advanced financial planning and analysis (Required)
• 4-6 years experience in multi-unit retail concepts and/or managed care and manufacturing (Preferred)
• Four year college degree or equivalent experience. resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job, such as accounting, marketing, business administration, etc. (Required)
• Master's Degree MBA (Preferred)

Additional Skills

• Strong core FP&A skills, including business case modeling (Required)
• Multi-unit Retail experience required, or experience with multi-location business models. (Required)
• Apply objective, analytical, and orderly thinking to various analyses and ability to “think like an owner” (Required)
• Skill in gathering, transforming and reporting information in an insightful manner (Required)
• Professional, reliable and diligent with ability to develop strong cross-functional relationships (Required)
• Self-starter, strong team player and independent worker with excellent time-management (Required)
• Results oriented, strong sense of urgency, proactive and flexible (Required)
• Ability to meet deadlines in fast-paced environment (Required)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate with leaders at VP-