Manager Financial Planning - Montréal, Canada - SSENSE

SSENSE

Verified Company

Montréal, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Company Description

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SSENSE (pronounced [es-uhns]) is a global technology platform operating at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce.

Headquartered in Montreal, it features a mix of established and emerging luxury brands across womenswear, menswear, kidswear, and Everything Else.

SSENSE has garnered critical acclaim as both an e-commerce engine and a producer of cultural content, generating an average of 100 million monthly page views.

Approximately 80% of its audience is between the ages of 18 to 40. It is privately held and has achieved high double digit annual growth and profitability since its inception.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, the Manager, FP&A will partner closely with the Executive team in influencing the strategic direction of the business, driving FP&A execution, and supporting investment decisions across strategic initiatives.

He or she will partner with different groups across the company with a main focus on Operations and Projects support and lead a small team.

This role is an exciting opportunity to partner with key stakeholders at SSENSE work side by side with them to develop business strategies, financial models, and analytical insights.

The successful individual will thrive in a growing, ambiguous environment, possess strong leadership skills, and be capable of working with big data and transforming it into insights.

This position would be required to work onsite at our Distribution Centre for 2 days a week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Planning & Analysis Strategy & Execution

Partner with the Operations teams to scale the business, driving core business operating mechanisms (Weekly/Monthly Business Reviews, Projects reporting), understanding trends and variances in metrics, developing action plans, and initiating corrective actions
Perform root cause analyses, uncovering insights using data, providing recommendations to improve and create new measures for business productivity
Oversee and manage the continued development of budgeting, financial forecasting, reporting and modeling tools
Oversee annual and multiyear budgeting and planning process
Lead monthly analysis of actual results compared to budget and financial forecasts
Implement simple, efficient and transparent tools and processes for the strategic project management practice, from ideation to execution, project tracking, and postmortem
Lead endtoend controllership of capital allocation and strategic projects governance,
Provide direction, decision analysis, and management of financial controls to scale the business, and work closely with senior leadership to deliver and execute the strategy.
Work with Financial Accounting to drive process improvements and standardization initiatives for project accounting
Support business case creation for upcoming projects
Supporting Labor forecasting by utilizing relevant data and tools to plan for future labor needs including different populations such as hourly, salaried etc.

People Leadership & Development

Lead hiring efforts and conduct interviews to attract and retain top talent
Lead the creation and development of training documentation for the team
Hold weekly oneonones, conduct performance reviews, analyze individual KPIs and assess promotion readiness to help each contributor evolve in their roles
Collaborate with Senior Leadership to gage and monitor team engagement and implement solutions to create a transparent, collaborative and productive work environment
Collaborate with Senior Leadership to establish the short term objectives for the department and ensure team's are engaged towards achieving the department's missions

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or a related field
Certifications in CA, CGA, CMA / CPA or degree in MBA
A minimum of 5 years of finance experience in a distribution, warehousing or retail environment, working closely with different teams
A minimum of 3 years of experience in leading a team of financial professionals
Experience in Project Management an asset
Experience with SAP and Adaptive Insights is considered an asset
Experience with Google Suite and Microsoft Office is considered an asset
Experienced in influencing, developing and/ or motivating people from diverse backgrounds and differing customer background

SKILLS

Able to think and act both strategically and tactically
Strong analytical, organizational, and decision making skills.
Selfmotivated with ability to work independently while also enjoying collaboration with crossfunctional teams and other analysts
Ability to autonomously manage a process from start to end
Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and working knowledge of data mining tools (e.g. SQL)
Strong leadership skills
Strong communication and presentation skills for both working level and executive level