Overview
This role serves as a key finance partner to Buying and Merchandising, supporting a multi-brand, multi-country digital eCommerce portfolio. The position delivers data-driven insights that inform assortment decisions, pricing strategies, and inventory investment across international markets.
Working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, the role connects financial performance to commercial outcomes—aligning revenue growth, margin optimization, and customer experience.
Open to remote candidates. Candidates within CT: hybrid office policy 2 days on-site, balance of the time remote.
Responsibilities
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to forecast sales, gross margin, and inventory across multiple brands and regions.
- Support annual operating plans, monthly forecasts, and long-range planning cycles for global e-commerce channels.
- Incorporate regional market dynamics, currency impacts, and channel-specific trends into financial projections.
Performance Analysis & Insights
- Analyze sales, margin, and inventory performance against plan, prior year, and forecast.
- Identify key business drivers across brands and geographies, highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for commercial teams.
Assortment & Inventory Optimization
- Partner with Buying, Planning, and Allocation teams to align inventory strategies with financial targets.
- Monitor stock positions across markets to balance availability, working capital efficiency, and sell-through performance.
- Support open-to-buy management and inventory investment decisions at a global and regional level.
Pricing & Promotional Effectiveness
- Evaluate financial impact of pricing strategies, markdown cadence, and promotional activity across different markets.
- Provide recommendations to optimize margin, conversion, and inventory productivity.
- Assess elasticity and regional pricing differences to support localized strategies.
Reporting & Business Communication
- Deliver standardized and ad hoc reporting packages, dashboards, and executive summaries.
- Present financial insights to cross-functional stakeholders, translating complex data into clear business implications.
- Ensure consistency and accuracy of reporting across brands and regions.
Cross-functional Partnership
- Act as a financial liaison across Digital, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations teams.
- Support alignment of financial goals with commercial execution across multiple brands and international markets.
- Contribute to global initiatives, including platform expansion, channel optimization, and go-to-market strategies.
Strategic Projects & Process Improvement
- Support financial evaluation of new product launches, market entries, and brand expansion initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities.
- Leverage tools and automation to enhance data quality and decision-making speed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline.
- 3–5 years of financial analysis experience, preferably within e-commerce, retail, or consumer goods.
- Experience supporting multi-brand and multi-country operations strongly preferred.
- Advanced Excel skills (financial modeling, pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas).
- Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Familiarity with ERP and planning systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Hyperion).
- Working knowledge of SQL or similar data querying tools is a plus.
- Analytical rigor: ability to synthesize large, complex datasets into meaningful insights.
- Commercial acumen: strong understanding of digital commerce drivers, including pricing, assortment, and inventory dynamics.
- Communication: clear, concise presentation of financial insights to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
- Collaboration: effective in cross-functional, global team environments.
- Execution focus: proactive, detail-oriented, and solution-driven.
Compensation & Benefits
- 401K
- Robust Medical, Dental, Vision Plans
- Generous Company Holidays/Vacation
- Extended Sick and Personal
- Hybrid Remote Office Policy
- Summer Fridays all year long!
- Parental Leave Policy
Equal Employment Opportunity
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind, including commitment to a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.