Department: Finance
Reports to: Manager, FP&A – Gross Margin
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Financial Analyst, FP&A – Gross Margin, you will play a key role in building out the FP&A function. You will be supporting our cross-functional business partners, with a focus supporting our Gross Margin-dedicated teams in optimizing operations and scaling for growth, through enhanced KPI and reporting visibility, and cross-functional partnership. You will work closely with senior leadership and other internal stakeholders to drive brand performance through analytical insights and financial support and will play a key role in enhancing the financial performance management of these major drivers of our future profitability.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Gross Margin 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 performance and financial position. Through review of historic financials, variance analysis and KPI tracking, the team advises leadership on key investment decisions and performance improvement.
If you were the FA, FP&A – Gross Margin, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Maintaining weekly and monthly margin reporting for key stakeholders using Onestream, PowerBI, Oracle and data analysis tools
- Reviewing month-end financial results with emphasis on improving regional forecast accuracy, preparing variance analysis and delivering clear commentary on business performance
- Supporting gross margin forecasting and reporting, including FOB costs, freight, duties, fair trade and owned-manufacturing costs, while partnering closely with Accounting and Amer/Group partners to investigate variances
- Building working relationships with directors, cost owners, and functional teams, acting as a reliable and knowledgeable business partner for planning and reporting needs
- Assisting our Canada-based manufacturing plant with cost variances, scenario analysis and performance reporting
- Supporting with inventory forecasting and month end analysis in partnership with Global Planning team
- Standardizing team deliverables for the Gross Margin FP&A team to enhance consistency and predictability of deliverables and expectations for our cross-functional partners
- Supporting with decision analysis projects or initiatives that impact gross margin, including business cases, spend deep dives, and scenario modelling, while bringing analytical rigor and clear communication to every deliverable
- Leading improvements to month end review process and reporting
- Building and maintaining financial modelling related to product revenue, gross margin and inventory forecasts
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Building improved reporting and visibility for senior stakeholders related to gross margin and distribution & transport
- Working with Directors and Senior Leadership to review and understand cost variances and other related KPIs
- Being a key stakeholder in decision analysis for strategic priorities, providing insights particularly as it pertains to costing and gross margin
- Building and maintaining financial models that drive the company’s long term strategic plan
- Helping support the overall seasonal buy strategy from an inventory perspective, providing targets and guidelines to teams involved
Are you our next FA, FP&A – Gross Margin?
- You have 3+ years proven experience in Finance, Accounting and/or Financial Planning & Analysis role with financial modelling and business partnership experience
- You have a bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or equivalent and ideally have your CPA, CMA, CA, CFA, or MBA
- You have exceptional attention to detail
- You have advanced analytical skills with a strong aptitude for MS Excel and data analysis tools, including Power BI
- You can prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and can collaborate with individuals across departments, organizations, and countries
- You can coordinate and lead projects to completion
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You can balance autonomy and collaboration
- You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
Compensation:
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Financial Planning & Analysis
- Financial modeling experience
- Business partnership experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent
- CPA, CMA, CA, CFA, or MBA
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Advanced analytical skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data analysis tools, including Power BI
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate across departments, organizations, and countries
- Ability to coordinate and lead projects to completion
- Proactive problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills
- Flexibility and adaptability in ambiguous situations
- Eligibility to work in Canada
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
