Sr. Director, Corporate FP&A

Caleres Inc.; Clayton (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Caleres Inc. in Clayton, MO, is seeking an senior FP&A professional to lead planning, forecasting, and budgeting activities for the company’s businesses. You will develop analytical capabilities, deliver performance metrics, and partner with executives across functions to drive strategic financial decisions.

Experience in FP&A, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration is essential. This role offers a path to influence corporate planning and requires strong communication and problem-solving

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or related field; MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in financial planning, analysis, or strategy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with corporate FP&A and budgeting.
• Ability to influence and present insights to executives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes.
• Provide senior leadership with analytical tools and performance metrics.
• Lead scenario modeling and variance analysis.
• Monitor KPIs across revenue, costs, and capital expenditures.
• Partner with executives in budget development.
• Support Board meetings with financial insights.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Analytical thinking

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Finance or Economics Degree; MBA preferred

Tools

SAP

Job description

What We Do – Accountabilities

• Assures alignment between company-wide financial plans and business partner strategic and operations goals to drive the company toward its short and long-term objectives
• Assures all financial implications of potential decisions are considered in helping direct the thought process and actions of key business leaders/partners
• Assures the development of company operating plans, forecasts, and budgets, connecting the dots between investments and future returns and aligned with company capital allocation objectives
• Assures the evolution of the consolidated FP&A function of the company, including a) providing proactive analyses of business issues and opportunities, b) developing corporate level dashboards incorporating operational metrics, c) incorporating external market data into financial processes, d) among others

Essential Functions

• Develop, implement, and maintain an effective planning and analysis capability that will provide senior leadership with appropriate analytical tools to establish goals and measure performance of the Company’s businesses.
• Increase forecast accuracy within the organization by analysis of internal practices compared to analyst expectations and provide insight into potential discrepancies.
• Routinely communicate business, financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics. Suggest trends, resulting implications, key actions, and strategic implications.
• Develop processes, metrics, etc. to manage all aspects of financial support for the marketing team company-wide, including cost management, ensuring financial return on investment, etc.
• Lead scenario modeling efforts for the development and growth of the company.
• Develop and execute processes to allow for routine analytical reviews of company financial and operational performance, leveraging analytical resources and tools.
• Monitor performance and competitive dynamics of companies that are strategic partners & competitors.
• Analyze internal forecasts and estimates compared to analyst expectations and provide insight into potential discrepancies.
• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses and capital expenditures
• Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Partner with corporate executives in the development and management of department budgets
• Provide critical support for Board of Directors and senior management meetings.

• Administer and maintain management reporting instance in SAP
• Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis

Preferred Qualifications & Education

• Finance or Economics Degree; MBA preferred
• 7+ years of experience in financial planning, consulting, strategy
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with a variety of business functions and levels
• Strong business and financial acumen with corporate FP&A experience
• Superior strategic, financial modeling, valuation and problem solving skills
• Ability to influence and build credibility while clearly presenting ideas and gaining others’ perspective.

Physical Requirements and/or Environment

Cubicle Office