Manager Financial Planning

4 weeks ago


Montréal, Canada SSENSE Full time

Company Description

Group Atallah

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 multi-year 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 post-mortem
- Lead end-to-end 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 one-on-ones, 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.
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently while also enjoying collaboration with cross-functional 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



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