Financial Analyst

Job Summary: The Financial Analyst is responsible for financial planning, reporting, and analysis for the Gibson Brands.  Primary responsibilities include annual budget and quarterly forecast preparation, developing and delivering value-added financial analysis (including trending, sensitivity, modelling, and variance), provide weekly and monthly financial reports, support development of business strategy, and provide robust business partnership to Gibson leaders and teams. The Financial Analyst will join a Senior Financial Analyst on the FP&A team. The successful candidate will have multiple years of experience successfully managing a corporate financial planning and budgeting process, delivering impactful financial reporting, performing accounting duties (including balance sheet reviews/reconciliations, preparation/ review/approval of journal entries), and have delivered numerous examples of insightful financial and cost savings analysis which influenced meaningful business decisions.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare monthly reporting package for management and the Board of Directors and provide timely and insightful financial analysis to measure progress against budget and forecast including revenue, gross margin, operating margin, EBITDA margin and addbacks.  Analyze period gaps to plan, research and explain variances, and evaluate opportunities for savings.
• Produce and provide monthly insight into the key metrics and dashboards that will be used to make critical business decisions and measure effectiveness and contribution.   
• Wholesale Channel Sales: Work collaboratively across all regions and brands to develop a detailed understanding and provide insightful analytics and actionable suggestions in a proactive manner by spotting trends and questioning data. Identify risks and areas for improvement.
• Work collaboratively with the DTC / Ecommerce team, prepare detailed analysis of the following including determination of trends, areas of improvement, opportunities for standardization/rationalization:
  1. Traffic & Conversion rates
  2. Profitability via channel and SKU-level
  3. Develop tools to measure the success of our online retail presence.  Manage data sources, create new scorecards to continuously improve our insight capabilities and our insight sharing within the organization.
  4.  Perform ad hoc analysis on a wide variety of subject matter such as Pay-Per-Click Analytics, Inventory Management, Sales and Profitability
• Review & challenge the annual, quarterly, and monthly forecasting processes for sales, production & operating expenses.
• Communicate planning calendars and implement procedures that ensure timely data submissions.
• Work closely with other finance and operational personnel on the development, maintenance, and improvement of forecasting tools.
• Participate in strategic/long-term planning processes and offer value-added input based on a thorough understanding of the business; this will include being a part of the deal team for any capital markets and other corporate development activities.
• Capital Expenditures: Help track and maintain projects with initiative owners and accounting team.
• Liaise with external investors including shareholder communication (events that would trigger an 8-K for a publicly traded company), quarterly financial statements, shareholder calls and related follow-up.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Strong base knowledge of accounting, finance, production, and operations principles
• Proven track record of creating robust analyses that translates into business decisions.
• Experience in the consumer products industry and in manufacturing are preferred.
• Must have solid budgeting/forecasting/reporting background and experience with managing multiple entities or other financial modeling experience.
• Proven ability to work with all levels of management and foster relationships with financial and operational personnel.
• Must be able to work independently, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and organize workload to meet organizational timelines in a fast paced, very high growth environment.
• Possesses the structure and process experience of a multinational background but with an entrepreneurial flair and drive.
• Understands and has proven experience of how to support the growth of brands through consistency and disciplined execution.

Education and Experience:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent Finance/Accounting/Business; CPA/MAcc/MSF/MBA a plus 
• 2-4 years of experience in financial analysis/controlling, or similar environment with at least 2 years of experience in financial and/or management consulting, investment banking or similar

The company’s Job Descriptions are not intended to be a complete detailed account of all expected/anticipated activities. We operate in a fast-moving and competitive global environment and therefore need employees to be flexible. 

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