Remote Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A Merchandising Finance

Summary

Join the Stitch Fix Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst and play a key role in providing valuable insights to drive strategic decisions for the Merchandise team. As an FP&A business partner, you will create and update reports, forecasts, and financial models to support assortment architecture and inventory management decisions.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of financial analysis, retail finance, merchandise planning, inventory planning or accounting experience with exposure to forecasting, budgeting and monthly close activities
• Proven experience with full-price and markdown forecasting models, applying retail best practices to optimize pricing strategies and financial forecasting
• Ability to analyze the financial impact of markdowns to optimize pricing strategies and margin flow-through
• Superior Excel skills, including basic financial modeling, and experience creating effective presentation slide decks
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and project management skills
• Ability to identify opportunities for business improvement and take initiative to drive necessary changes
• Ability to influence and drive decisions in partnership with Merchandising Buying and Planning teams
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with proven success partnering and collaborating across a wide spectrum of functions
• Ability to work well in a demanding, fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities
• Highly self-motivated, with a stellar work ethic and looking for the right company to support growth potential
• Experience with Anaplan, Essbase, and/or similar planning and reporting tools

Responsibilities

• Develop and work in close partnerships within finance and across the business to develop annual, quarterly and monthly budgets and forecasts including but not limited to merchandise margin, inventory, assortment architecture, style-level sell-through and opex
• Manage and track financial performance against annual budget, seasonal financial plans, and KPIs
• Analyze variances to plan and forecast, providing insight on current and expected trends, and identifying areas of risk and opportunities
• Translate complex forecasting insights into compelling narratives that convey rationale and context behind key metrics
• Participate in cross-functional projects and lead process improvement efforts, including dashboard and reporting enhancements
• Prepare monthly financial review presentations, recapping results vs. plan and forecast for management meetings
• Drive ad-hoc analysis and scenario modeling to aid in decision-making
• Evolve tools, enhance existing reporting, and improve business processes in partnership with Finance and the business
• Identify and quantify risk or upside due to business environment to offer solutions and aid in decision-making
• Assist with conducting ad hoc analysis and scenario modeling at the request of the finance team, management and business partners to aid in decision-making
• Own communications of shared calendars for forecast deadlines/dates for the Merchandise Finance team

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits
• Equity