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Position Summary
Under Armour’s vision is to be the #1 Performance Athletic Brand in the world. To help achieve this goal, we are building a world-class Financial Planning & Analysis team whose focus will be developing core competencies in the areas of FP&A, Decision Support, and Strategy Execution.
The EMEA Senior Manager of FP&A role will be a key member of this team reporting directly to the EMEA Snr Director of FP&A, partnering in providing strategic, financial, commercial, and operational analytics & insights to the EMEA team in order to maximize financial returns of the region. It will work on identifying and developing new business opportunities ensuring capital is invested with correct ROI analytics. It will manage all financial planning cycles for the region, ensuring plans are submitted in accordance with global direction while developing the level of detail and accuracy.
Responsible for the financial models to assess financial performance and health of the EMEA Business, consulting with Senior Management on both profitability and in recommending and implementing process improvement opportunities as well as improving commercial effectiveness.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Working with EMEA Snr Director, FP&A to develop and improve the FP&A function in the region
- Manage Financial Planning cycles by setting guidelines and managing output along with the other FP&A team members
- Work with Director of FP&A and regional leadership team to develop long range strategic plan; ensuring financial plan reflects regional strategy
- Manage the quarterly forecast submissions as well as the in-month latest estimate updates. Consolidates regional channel and country plans; interprets outlook and advises management on risk and opportunities
- Ensuring plans are submitted in accordance with the process and continuously seeking to improve accuracy
- Partner with Marketing to manage $100M+ marketing budget. Manage, track and forecast spend.
- Forecast regional corporate expenses, partnering with HR to manage robust headcount and costing planning tools along with other overheads for the region. Supporting cost center managers with cost control.
- Partner with Merchandising and Global Margin COE to understand and forecast Product Margin. Create a standardized approach to reporting including visualization tools and dashboards to analyze key performance drivers across price, mix and cost.
- Partner with HR to provide up to date headcount forecasts and actuals.
- Provide financial leadership, P&L management, and strategic support for EMEA.
- Build consolidated financial reporting tools to track and forecast business results – including monthly actuals, monthly LE forecasts and F-series forecast updates.
- Interpret, analyze, and review financial results and KPIs to provide recommendations, ensure accountability and drive performance
- Manage EMEA balance sheet. Partner with Supply Chain on ES&OP process, Inventory targets and Excess Management.
- Regional management reporting; giving business updates on performance and outlining and defining actions
- Lead the continuous development of business reports and the reporting process to ensure they are reporting developing trends and relevant metrics in the businesses in accordance with the Global framework
- Complete ROI and capital asset requests supporting key regional investments.
- Leverage Global Marketing team to start to analyze Return on Marketing Investment.
- Conduct channel / country ROI assessments to ensure capital is invested in highest return opportunities.
- Support business development initiatives (e.g. product launches, entrance to new distribution and markets, etc.) through strategic analysis, investment optimization analytics, valuation, and financial due diligence.
Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)
- Team player with demonstrated ability to lead and influence others outside of their direct-reporting lines.
- Balance of strategic and analytic capabilities.
- Strategic thinker with excellent analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving, interpersonal, and relationship building skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and articulate ideas, financial results, and actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, willingness to “do what it takes” to get the job done-done-done, and commitment to challenging the status-quo to make things better.
- Consistently producing results that exceed expectations.
- High integrity.
- Humble & Hungry.
Education And / Or Experience
- BA/BS required. MBA strongly preferred.
- 6-10 years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A or Accounting.
- Expertise in Excel, financial modeling, cash flow valuation, scenario/sensitivity analysis, and ROI, NPV, and IRR analyses.
- BPC, SAP, Hyperion, or Cognos experience preferred.
Relocation
No Relocation Provided
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