*This is a hybrid role with three weeks per month onsite (Mon – Thurs).
People are the heart of our company, and our doors are open to everyone. As a customer, as an employee – we are committed to creating an inspiring culture that is welcoming, safe and inclusive for all. Our strength in work and life comes from the combination of our experiences, backgrounds and talents. It’s what we do as people that makes Lands’ End a great place to shop and a great place to work.
The Financial Analyst position as Lands’ End demands a level of both technical competency and interpersonal skills. A successful individual in this role will provide analysis, assimilate data effectively and partner with the business operational team to offer pragmatic financial solutions to various business issues.
Responsibilities
Provide variance analysis and determine cause of change. Scope includes the P&L, monthly actuals, plan and forecast and monthly reporting and analysis, monthly actual package, monthly forecast package, overall monthly financial package, annual operating plan, strategic plan processes
Present financial analysis and recommendations to your team and manager to help inform business decisions
Perform reconciliations needed as a basis for financial analysis
Identify and help to develop and implement financial process improvements to drive consistency and standardization to streamline workflow and decision making
Provide financial modeling and analytic support
Support the Corporate FP&A team’s forecast calendar through alignment with the forecasting calendar and support processes
Organize data from the company’s various data-base repositories to create/refresh financial models
Drive enhancements in financial reporting and analysis as well as requisite system requirements
Qualifications
2-4 years in a related financial analyst role
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Business
Demonstrated financial experience including budgeting, forecasting, planning, analysis, and building financial models.
Demonstrated strong financial analysis skills
Self-motivated team player with strong ability work autonomously
Good organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
Excellent written and verbal communications skills; comfortable communicating with and helping to influence various levels of management
Excellent drive for results and complex problems solving skills coupled with the ability to build strong working relationships
Demonstrated knowledge of accounting and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Advanced Excel skills (including: Subtotaling, Filtering, Data Sort, LookUp Tables, Pivot Tables, Charting) and other MS office applications; ability to model business requirements and prepare "what-if" analysis
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)