Director, FP&A — NAM Commercial Operations

Arc'teryx Limited; North Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 149,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to drive strategic growth in North America. This role involves overseeing financial planning for retail, eCommerce, and wholesale channels, ensuring alignment with business strategy. You will lead a high-performing team, conduct variance analysis, and provide insights to senior management to enhance performance. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in finance, a strong educational background, and exceptional analytical skills. Join a dynamic team committed to fostering inclusivity and driving positive change in the outdoor industry.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of finance leadership experience in retail.
• Exceptional analytical and modeling skills with expert knowledge of financial statements.

Responsibilities

• Lead FP&A for North America, supporting Retail, eCommerce, and Wholesale channels.
• Provide analysis for business trends and forecast profitability.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Financial Modeling

Communication Skills

Project Management

Problem Solving

Education

University Degree in Commerce or Business Administration

CPA or MBA

Tools

BI Tools

Job description

Department: Finance

Reports to: Senior Director, FP&A

Location: North Vancouver, Hybrid

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - North America Commercial Operations, you are responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the North American commercial business at Arc’teryx. You, along with your team will support business strategy through ownership of the P&L across our Retail, eCommerce and Wholesale channels and you will be instrumental in driving the vision for North America’s growth during the long-range planning process. You will provide senior management with the analysis to understand business trends, improve performance, and forecast profitability and financial position for the upcoming quarter and year ahead.

This role can be hired remote. Remote candidates must be committed to Pacific time zone hours aligned with the ARC’TERYX headquarters location in North Vancouver, B.C.

Meet your future team:

The Financial Planning & Analysis team at Arc’teryx is responsible for providing leadership with the information they need to review past performance, understand business trends, and anticipate future profitability and financial position. Through review of historic financials, variance analysis and KPI tracking, FP&A advises leadership on key investment decisions and performance improvement.

If you were the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - North America Commercial Operations, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

• Leading a high performing group within the NAM FP&A team that supports the success of our Retail, eCommerce and Wholesale channels to help deliver Arc’teryx’ company strategy within North America.
• Acting as the primary FP&A business partner to the North America Commercial Leaders, supporting them with annual budget and subsequent reforecasting cycles for sales, margin and operating costs.
• Owning the long-term five-year sales plan for North America, responsible for maintaining the plan, articulating key sales growth drivers to Leadership including quantification of investment required to support long term strategy.
• Supporting the NAM FP&A team with the continued development and evolution of weekly and monthly tracking reports, and provide supporting analysis for strategic leadership team.
• Providing commentary for weekly, monthly and quarterly budget: actual variance analysis on financial and operating metrics.
• Leading key sales planning meetings, including coordination of the meeting materials and content (eg weekly drive sales).
• Collaborating with the Commercial team to support management of direct opex spend in retail stores, ecom and wholesale channel through monthly budget to actual reporting and variance analysis.
• Partnering with the FP&A, Supply Chain team to understand inventory availability and seasonal drops and the alignment of product and financial plans, driving key discussions around phasing of inventory timing and how this impacts sales performance vs plan.
• Partnering with the Store Development team in the evaluation of retail store business cases for new sites, relocations and assess renovation ROI.
• Leading the development of new store opening reporting, cohort analysis and omni-channel success in key epicenters.

Are you our next Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - North America Commercial Operations?

• You have 10+ years of experience as a finance leader within the retail industry.
• You have a university degree in Commerce or Business Administration coupled with CPA or MBA.
• You have exceptional analytical and modeling skills and expert knowledge of financial statements.
• You ideally have international business experience.
• You have demonstrated ability to drive projects across an organization.
• You can step in and take charge with minimum instruction.
• You can prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You have experience working with BI tools and multi-platform, multi-currency environments.
• You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions.
• You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement.
• You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment.
• You have an interest or involvement in activities that we make products for.
• Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it.

$149,000 - $205,000 a year

A reasonable estimate of the pay range is CAD$149,000- CAD$205,000 at the time of this posting. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, relevant experience, education and/or training. The upper end of the range is typically reserved for candidates with demonstrated expertise that is above job requirements or who bring exceptional directly transferable experience.

Please note that the range details above reflect the base pay only and does not include our competitive bonus program and benefits that we offer.

Equal Opportunity

Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.

Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

Leave it Better

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Join us in creating positive change in ourselves, our communities, and the world.

Live it. Get out there - the mountains make us better.

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