Our client is seeking an experienced, ambitious, strategic and highly analytical person to lead the strategic planning and financial analysis function for PRL’s global retail businesses.  These businesses are spread across nine separate global divisions and various shared service functions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving the strategic business planning process and business performance analysis
• Partnering with and proactively supporting departmental and divisional functions in all matters related to forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning and monthly/quarterly variance analysis
• Interfacing with the corresponding divisional (geographically based), departmental, operational and FP&A organizations to coordinate and provide worldwide analytical and planning support for these areas
• Developing departmental and divisional strategic plans and scorecard that includes delegated corporate priorities and objectives, departmental and divisional strategic operating and infrastructure priorities and objectives, and action plans to support them
• Keeping fully-up-to date in departmental and divisional areas of expertise through contact with other organizations, associations considered “best in class”; fully understanding the linkage between the corporate and divisional strategic plan and excellence in functional areas
• Monitoring, analyzing, and preparing reports on the financial performance of business units and departments against prior periods, forecasts and budgets
• Analyzing, maintaining, and developing monthly forecasting and reporting tools
• Ensuring standardization of procedures and analyses that sets/maintains standards for data integrity and fiscally sound decision making
• Using internal and external market data to create business strategies.  This individual will possess the ability to find alternative business strategies when targeted goals are in danger
• Developing models to act as a framework for the organization to follow strategic plans and objectives.  Working as a business partner to bring financial rigor to new ideas and review strategic decisions
• Bringing Financial understanding to business decisions and alternatives by leveraging the use of tools to understand core business drivers in decision making

Qualifications:

• MBA and/or CPA preferred
• Minimum 5-7 years management level experience within strategic planning and financial analyses departments
• Significant retail experience