Banana Republic
About the Role
As a Manager of Finance at Banana Republic, you will drive strategic financial planning and business performance. Operating in a fast-paced and complex environment, you will provide financial guidance, modeling, and analytical insights to inform key decision-making across multiple stakeholders. This role is responsible for long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, and optimizing profitability—collaborating closely with Central Finance, Brand FP&A, Real Estate, Store Development, Inventory Management, and Data Science teams to ensure financial accuracy, profitability and effectiveness.
What You'll Do
- Develop and implement multi-year financial plans covering sales, margin, discounting, inventory management, and overall business KPI’s across market channels.
- Oversee pre- and in-season media profitability, ensuring financial rigor and detailed metric assessments.
- Act as a key liaison to Central Finance for strategic planning—evaluating and improving planning processes to enhance organizational effectiveness.
- Lead monthly top-down forecasting, creating lever-driven forecast ranges (low/mid/high scenarios).
- Partner with Data Science to integrate consumer insights and demand forecasts into financial planning.
- Deliver accurate financial close processes, reporting, and analysis for internal and external stakeholders.
- Prepare and present insightful financial reviews and executive presentations that drive strategic action.
- Identify and research variances across forecast, budget, and prior-year data, proactively surfacing opportunities for improvement.
- Cultivate strong cross-functional relationships across finance, marketing analytics, merchandising, and store operations.
Who You Are
- Highly analytical with expertise in financial modeling, forecasting principles, and advanced mathematics.
- Strong business acumen with knowledge of profitability drivers, media principles, and P&L management.
- Skilled in managing complex data requests and applying research methodologies to financial analysis.
- Action-oriented mindset with the ability to drive strategic initiatives.
- Exceptional Excel, PowerPoint, AI proficiency and presentation skills.
- Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Mathematics or equivalent experience.
- 3–5 years of experience in Finance, Marketing Analytics, Merchandise Planning, or related fields.