The Role
As Vice President, Global FP&A, you will lead financial planning, business performance management, and drive efficient financial practices across the organization, collaborating with executive leadership.
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Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Vice President, Global FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis), you are responsible for leading the Global FP&A function at Arc’teryx. You, along with your team, will drive business planning and overall performance management through ownership of the brand financial planning cycle, including the long-range planning process, annual operating plan, margin and supply chain finance, inventory and capital planning, quarterly forecasting, and corporate SG&A management. You are a key partner to the Executive team in providing a global perspective on our business trends, financial performance, and in shaping our annual outlook and long-range plans.
This role is based in North Vancouver, BC, and is open to the right candidate based in the US who is willing to relocate and/or travel to North Vancouver once a month for a week.
Meet Your Future Team:
You are a key leader amongst the Finance Leadership team and drive financial stewardship throughout the organization. As the VP, Global FP&A, you lead a team responsible for the following areas: Strategic Finance, Corporate FP&A, HQ Business Partnership and Expense planning, Capital Planning, Product & Supply Chain Finance, Planning Systems and Indirect Procurement. In addition to providing financial stewardship for our Brand HQ functions, your team will provide structure and guidance to our Regional Finance teams to ensure a well co-ordinated and transparent planning and reporting process.
If you were the Vice President, Global FP&A now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Drive and transform the annual and quarterly planning cycle, including the LRP, Budget and forecast process, in-quarter performance management and monthly and weekly reporting to key stakeholders
- Leading the overall Budget process across the Brand including target setting, regional and HQ function co-ordination, Budget reviews and investment prioritization
- Preparing the monthly and quarterly finance reviews (MFR/QFR) for Group and Board Reporting including drafting related Amer / Board communications and presentations
- Preparing, analyzing and distributing internal financial reports to track performance globally, by region and across key functions
- Leading and presenting at key review discussions with senior leadership (Budget, Forecast reviews, QBRs, etc), delivering quantitative analytic work that unlocks business insights and drives decision making
- Developing and maintaining the long-range financial plan, ensuring it is aligned with our overall strategic plan.
- Build finance business partnership capability over new emerging business units (ie: Footwear, Veilance)
- Ensuring our long-range plans connect with our supply and raw materials planning
- Lead and set accurate margin forecasts and inventory projections, and helping to steer the Open to Buy process and management of our inventory posture
- Partner with Brand CFO to set overall expense posture and ensure FP&A provides high quality business partnership to all Global Functions in expense planning/management, decision support and investment analysis. Set the appropriate framework and review cadence to ensure expense discipline and ownership
- Building a robust capital planning and steering framework to be applied at HQ and across all regions that improves our assessment, approval and evaluation of key capital projects
- Engaging and providing guidance and structure to our Regional Finance Heads and their respective teams on planning and reporting process, KPI and performance tracking, ensuring consistent application across regions and leveraging technology to drive efficiency
- Facilitating knowledge-sharing and best practices across region finance teams to drive process improvements and enhance region capabilities
- Organizing and leading regional finance reviews to discuss forecasts, understand performance drivers and identify key risks
- Organizing materials in preparation for the Group Quarterly Earnings Call, including pulling together financial results, key KPIs and data points. Assist in framing expectations on guidance setting, and addressing key investor focus areas with respect to the Technical Apparel Segment
- Leading the Indirect Procurement function to drive expense leverage across our controllable cost base and implementation of best practices in sourcing, evaluating, and negotiating with suppliers and vendors
- Partnering closely with peers in the Finance Leadership team to drive overall Finance Transformation across our key functional strategic priorities
- Liaising with Amer Group FP&A teams in ensuring brand processes are well synchronized with Group calendar timelines and overall deliverables
- Developing relationships with other FP&A leaders across the Amer Group portfolio in sharing best practices and opportunities for improvement
- Supporting Brand CFO on key strategic projects and initiatives
- You bring industry insights to senior leadership, benchmarking Arc’teryx performance with public comparable companies and across the global retail space
- Leading a high performing team, developing future leaders at Arc’teryx and recognizing and building your leaders area of expertise
Are you our next Vice President, Global FP&A?
- You have 15+ years of experience within FP&A, and 10+ years of corporate leadership
- 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, and/or worked in a matrixed organizational structure
- You have demonstrated ability to drive projects across an organization
- You can step in and lead with minimal instruction, while bringing stakeholders alongside you
- You can prioritize and manage multiple tasks within tight deadlines
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- You have exceptional leadership skills, providing inspiration, clarity and direction to your teams and ability to influence across functional peers in the organization
- You have experience with enterprise financial planning applications (ie: Oracle, OneStream, etc) and have led/sponsored implementations
- You have experience working with BI tools and multi-platform, multi-currency environments
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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Top Skills
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The Company
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.
