Altra: Analyst, FP&A

VF Outdoor; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Altra, a VF Outdoor brand, seeks an FP&A Analyst to drive financial planning, analysis, and forecasting for its global business. You will partner with global leaders across Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations, and Strategy to support growth initiatives and margin expansion.

Expect to build financial models, prepare executive-ready presentations, and contribute to long-range plans and monthly close processes with a strong attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Develop understanding of Altra global business and provide analytics to support leadership decisions.
• Draw conclusions through financial analysis to inform strategy and actions.
• Prepare presentations for executive leadership, quarterly reviews, and ad hoc requests.
• Model margins, pricing architecture, and cost framework across the brand.
• Support monthly forecasts, annual plan, and strategic planning processes.
• Track actuals vs budget/forecast for SG&A budgets and cost centers.
• Assist GTM initiatives and update rolling financial models as needed.
• Create standardized tools to consolidate global financials and variances.
• Partner with global functions to adhere to budgets and achieve SG&A savings.
• Monitor brand costs and support monthly close and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop analytics to support key business initiatives for global leadership.
• Support the 5-year rolling plan and cross-functional alignment.
• Prepare presentations for executive leadership and quarterly reviews.
• Model product margins and analyze pricing and cost structures.
• Support monthly forecasts, annual plan, and strategic planning.
• Analyze actuals vs budget for SG&A and monitor costs.
• Assist GTM initiatives and update rolling financial models.
• Build standardized tools for consolidating global financials.
• Support ad hoc requests and business cases for Senior Management.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Management reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial systems

Job description

At Altra, we are on a never-ending journey to seek out opportunities to unlock potential in ourselves and others and to create a more diverse and inclusive running community. When we're all working together as the best versions of ourselves, we can feel empowered both individually and as a community.

So, before we get to the job details, take a minute to learn a little more about us - our values and our culture. If you can see yourself working side-by-side with a team of people driven to discover more about ourselves and the world around us, Altra just may be the place for you.

To learn more about our values and our culture, visit Altra Careers or www.altrarunning.com .

What will you do?

A day in the life of an FP&A Analyst at Altra looks a little like this.

The Financial Analyst, Global Altra will report to the Director of FP&A, Global Altra. The Financial Analyst will have the primary responsibility of preparing business performance analysis, reporting, and forecasting to support Global Finance.

As background, the global Altra Financial Planning & Analysis team serves as the critical partner for the brand's global leadership team. The team is responsible for creating and analyzing all short-term and long-term strategic planning, financial, and operational aspects of the brand's global business. The Analyst will partner with the Director to play a critical role in 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, and financial gaps versus the strategic outlook. The Analyst will work closely and collaboratively with global Altra leaders, global Sales, Marketing, Product, Operations, Strategy, Supply Chain and regional finance teams.

In order to succeed, the Analyst will leverage leadership and communication skills, advanced knowledge of financial systems and excellent attention to details.

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

• Develop an understanding of Altra global business and provide financial and decision-support analytics to the global leadership team to support key business initiatives and decisions.
• Alongside the Director, support the 5-Yr rolling financial plan (LRP) partnering with the global Strategy, global Marketing, Product, Operations, Supply Chain and regional finance teams. Understand the brand strategy and support in drawing conclusions through financial analysis.
• Support in the preparation of presentations for executive leadership teams, quarterly financial review, and ad hoc requests and analysis through earnings and monthly/quarterly meeting cadence.
• Support financial modeling and draw financial insights on product margin, including developing an understanding of the global pricing architecture and global cost framework.
• Support the monthly forecast, reporting and analysis, the annual operating plan, and the strategic plan processes.
• Track and analyze actuals vs budget/forecast for the global SG&A budgets
• Support global Go-to-Market (GTM) process and global leadership team in identifying gaps versus the 5-Yr assumptions and updating rolling models based on adjustments to growth initiatives and assortment.
• Create and maintain standardized tools that enable the team to execute the consolidation of the brand's global financials. This will include aggregating commentary on key financial variances with a focus on consumer/marketing, product, and marketplace.
• Partner with the global functions to ensure adherence to operating budgets and achieve annual SG&A savings goals to fuel further brand investment.
• Monitor global brand costs and support the monthly close and reporting for the global cost centers by maintaining ownership of the monthly forecast and the annual plan process for these areas with a strong attention to detail.
• Support the consolidation of product-level revenue reporting, supporting global Altra leaders and various GTM, GSM, and other commercial planning processes.
• Support business partners with key strategic initiatives and ad hoc requests through data gathering, analytics and by being a critical team member in pulling together business cases for review by Senior Management.
• Analyze short-term (actual and forecast) and long-term (annual plan and strategic plan) business trends in various channels utilizing KPIs from multiple sources across the business.
• Drive enhancements in financial reporting and analysis as well as requisite system requirements.
• Provide ad-hoc analytical support, including reports, presentations and special projects as needed.

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you'll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while fo