Manager Financial Planning and Analysis

National Vision - Duluth, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Duluth, GA

1,001-5,000 employees

Health and Personal Care Retailers

About the position

The Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis at National Vision plays a crucial role in providing financial insights and analysis to support the management team across multiple retail brands. This hybrid position involves both in-office and remote work, focusing on budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting to enhance business performance and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Manage, organize, and lead portions of the annual planning and budgeting process.
• Support the preparation of the monthly or quarterly corporate forecasting process.
• Interact directly with corporate department owners to build forward-looking plans.
• Support quarterly earnings release and reporting cycles.
• Conduct analysis of weekly and monthly results, trends, and variance to plans.
• Support the monthly close process by conducting variance analysis and preparing portions of the Monthly Financial Package.
• Assist with the development and preparation of scheduled reports as well as ad hoc management reports and analyses.
• Understand key drivers of the business and use them to improve forward-looking views.
• Build strong relationships across business and corporate functions.

Requirements

• 4-6 years of finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• 4-6 years of financial reporting and planning systems/software experience.
• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration (preferred).
• Proficient in financial and business modeling.
• Skilled in gathering, transforming, and reporting information in an insightful manner.
• Professional, reliable, and diligent with the ability to develop strong cross-functional relationships.
• Self-starter, strong team player, and independent worker with excellent time-management skills.
• Results-oriented with a strong sense of urgency, proactive and flexible.
• Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate with leaders at VP-level and above.
• Action-oriented, able to deal with ambiguity and quickly adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Power user of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of planning technologies; Oracle EPM desirable (preferred).

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree in Business Administration
• Knowledge of planning technologies; Oracle EPM

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• 401(k) matching