Department: Finance

Reports to: Senior Director, FP&A

Location: North Vancouver, Hybrid

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - North America Commercial Operations, you are responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the North American commercial business at Arc’teryx. You, along with your team will support business strategy through ownership of the P&L across our Retail, eCommerce and Wholesale channels and you will be instrumental in driving the vision for North America’s growth during the long-range planning process. You will provide senior management with the analysis to understand business trends, improve performance, and forecast profitability and financial position for the upcoming quarter and year ahead.

This role can be hired remote. Remote candidates must be committed to Pacific time zone hours aligned with the ARC’TERYX headquarters location in North Vancouver, B.C.

Meet your future team:

The Financial Planning & Analysis team at Arc’teryx is responsible for providing leadership with the information they need to review past performance, understand business trends, and anticipate future profitability and financial position. Through review of historic financials, variance analysis and KPI tracking, FP&A advises leadership on key investment decisions and performance improvement.

If you were the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - North America Commercial Operations, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

Leading a high performing group within the NAM FP&A team that supports the success of our Retail, eCommerce and Wholesale channels to help deliver Arc’teryx’ company strategy within North America

Acting as the primary FP&A business partner to the North America Commercial Leaders, supporting them with annual budget and subsequent reforecasting cycles for sales, margin and operating costs

Owning the long-term five-year sales plan for North America, responsible for maintaining the plan, articulating key sales growth drivers to Leadership including quantification of investment required to support long term strategy

Supporting the NAM FP&A team with the continued development and evolution of weekly and monthly tracking reports, and provide supporting analysis for strategic leadership team

Providing commentary for weekly, monthly and quarterly budget: actual variance analysis on financial and operating metrics

Leading key sales planning meetings, including coordination of the meeting materials and content (eg weekly drive sales)

Collaborating with the Commercial team to support management of direct opex spend in retail stores, ecom and wholesale channel through monthly budget to actual reporting and variance analysis

Partnering with the FP&A, Supply Chain team to understand inventory availability and seasonal drops and the alignment of product and financial plans, driving key discussions around phasing of inventory timing and how this impacts sales performance vs plan

Partnering with the Store Development team in the evaluation of retail store business cases for new sites, relocations and assess renovation ROI

Leading the development of new store opening reporting, cohort analysis and omni-channel success in key epicenters

Are you our next Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - North America Commercial Operations?

You have 10+ years of experience as a finance leader within the retail industry

You have a university degree in Commerce or Business Administration coupled with CPA or MBA

You have exceptional analytical and modeling skills and expert knowledge of financial statements

You ideally have international business experience

You have demonstrated ability to drive projects across an organization

You can step in and take charge with minimum instruction

You can prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills

You have experience working with BI tools and multi-platform, multi-currency environments

You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions

You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement

You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment

You have an interest or involvement in activities that we make products for

Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it

Equal Opportunity

Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.

Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

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Director, FP&A — NAM Commercial Operations

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