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Academy Sports + Outdoors · Other US Location

Company

Academy Sports + Outdoors

Location

Other US Location

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Come work at a place where we take pride in creating a workplace environment that values hard work, commitment, and growth.

Job Description:

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent required
  • MBA or CPA preferred

Work Experiences:

  • At least eight (8) years of experience, including planning, forecasting, analyzing reporting and business partnering
  • Previous FP&A or Corporate Finance experience required
  • Retail/e-commerce experience a plus

Skills:

  • In depth understanding of all three financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flow), accounting principles, credit policy practices, and industry data sources.
  • Oracle EPBCS & Strategic Modeling experience a plus
  • High attention to detail; strong reconciliation skills
  • Ability to work in an extremely fast paced team environment, deliver under considerable time pressure and ability to embrace constructive feedback.
  • Strong interpersonal skills; ability to partner effectively with team, peers, business partners and senior management, and interface with clients and vendors
  • Ability to analyze financial data, prepare financial reports, statements and projections
  • Strategic thinker who can also understand tactical delivery of analysis as needed
  • Track record of delivering high-impact results year-over-year
  • Excellent written, verbal, listening and presentation skills
  • Ability to formulate, initiate, administer policies and procedures for effective fiscal control
  • Can handle a high degree of complexity and ambiguity and translate to simplification
  • Hard-working and results-oriented
  • Creativity, flexibility and an entrepreneurial mindset to the solution of business issues; sound business judgment
  • Analytical and process-improvement oriented
  • Ability to apply numerical and analytical skills to support ideas and portfolio performance
  • Ability and proven skill in developing and applying complex models to measure risk.
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Team oriented with ability to work well with diverse groups

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the development and delivery of timely, accurate and consistent management reporting and identifying business insights from the financial data based on understanding key commercial drivers of the business performance and related sensitivities
  • Partner and leverage accounting to produce key information points including historical reporting and data collection. May include activities related to cost accounting, margin reporting, analysis of data and management reports, activity-based costing or cost allocation to products and customers, etc
  • Identifies and implements process simplification, standardization and improvement for management reporting and decision support processes
  • Facilitate consolidation of budget inputs and provide insight on variances
  • Coordinate monthly financial overview analysis and monthly forecast consolidation
  • Analyze and support annual planning and monthly forecasting processes and models for financial and internal planning partners, including examining wide sources of data and translating it into meaningful and useful insights for internal business partners
  • Perform ad hoc analysis on all areas of the business, as requested
  • Create budget decks reviewed by leadership team
  • Maintain a strong relationship with internal and external business partners
  • Ownership of financial planning support for internal business partners
  • Produce the delivery of weekly, monthly and quarterly executive reporting including but not limited to monthly performance reporting, corporate goals reporting and other ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests
  • Consolidate and analyze departmental/function plans and forecasts
  • Business decision support lead for CFO functional areas
  • Collaborate and provide guidance to senior management teams to help them define and enable business strategies
  • Establish clear ownership, timelines, and deliverables and hold business leaders accountable
  • Leverage internal and external networks to maximize the achievement of business goals
  • Respond to specific requests by leadership for insights on key priority topics
  • Responsible for providing financial support related to feasibility analysis, Budget to Actual/Open to Buy, ROI, margin implementation, business case development, and ensuring soundness of process used to drive financial results from projects
  • Focus with business partners to drive accurate forecasting & long-term vision to ensure financial targets are met
  • Identify and drive process improvements within the organization
  • Actively participate in new FP&A initiatives
  • Required to learn company policies, procedures and safety rules
  • Duties may change and Team Members may be required to perform other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements & Attendance:

  • Regular attendance required
  • Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
  • Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior

Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.

Date Posted

08/06/2023

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