Sr Analyst, Company Planning for Banana Republic

About the Role

The Company Planning team collaborates with business partners across the organization to drive decisions aimed at maximizing sales and profitability. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the brand's planning and forecasting processes, playing a critical part in ensuring consistent and constant growth for the brand. Responsibilities include tops-down sales, margin and inventory forecasts as well as financial analysis, diagnosing trends and recommending forward actions.

What You'll Do

• Develop detailed Sales, margin, lever and inventory plans (annual, month, day levels) that align with the brand's business strategy
• Recap and analyze business results vs. plan on a daily/monthly/quarterly and ad-hoc basis, providing actionable recommendations to deliver company objectives
• Initiate analyses with a growth mindset to solve problems, create alternatives, and provide recommendations to leadership based on quantitative and objective analysis
• Collaborate with Inventory Management to ensure merchandise plans align with financial targets
• Build ad-hoc projections and provide decision support to brand leadership and functional partners
• Partner with cross-functional teams on commercial plan, marketing and strategic initiatives to ensure profitable decision making and incorporation into plans.
• Integrate tops down analysis with detailed business drivers to formulate comprehensive company plans, particularly at the daily level in a highly commercial plan and value-driven brand

Who You Are

• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and critical thinking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to clearly explain financial concepts to non-finance partners
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to identify trends, irregularities, and synthesize business performance into actionable insights
• Proven relationship builder who can influence and lead cross-functional teams
• Self-motivated, accountable, and able to independently solve problems and prioritize multiple projects under tight timelines
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity
• Naturally curiosity, diagnosing problems and driving process/ tool improvements with new ideas
• Advanced technical aptitude, especially in Microsoft Excel; quick to learn new systems and optimize tools (Essbase experience a plus)
• 2-4 years of relevant finance or inventory management experience