Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

Responsibilities: Revenue Planning & Forecasting - Sales Budgeting: Support budget and long-range sales planning by linking revenue targets to merchandising plans, inventory availability, product launches, and category strategies - Rolling Forecasts: Build monthly or quarterly forecasts using key retail and merchandising drivers, including traffic, conversion, ATV, sell-through, stock cover, replenishment timing, and launch phasing - Driver-Based Modelling: Translate inventory cover, sell-through, replenishment, markdown, and seasonal assumptions into sales outcomes Performance & Variance Analysis - Actual vs. Plan Tracking: Perform weekly and monthly variance analysis on retail sales against forecast and budget - Channel & Category Analytics: Analyse sales performance by store, category, assortment mix, and region to identify growth opportunities, stock constraints, and sales risks - Promotional & Markdown ROI: Assess campaign, markdown, loyalty, and clearance performance, including impact on sell-through, stock liquidation, sales uplift, and margin Business Partnering & Reporting - Business Partnering: Partner with commercial, merchandising, operations, and marketing teams to align pricing, assortment, stock-to-sales goals, and revenue forecasts Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Merchandising, Retail Management, or a related field - Key skills: Revenue forecasting, merchandising planning, stock-to-sales translation, retail analytics, variance analysis, commercial storytelling, and business partnering - 2 to 3 years’ experience in merchandising planning, demand planning, or commercial planning within a retail environment - Strong understanding of how assortment mix, stock availability, sell-through, markdowns, and replenishment cycles impact sales forecasts and revenue performance - Experience in Merchandising, allocation, retail planning, or demand planning who can connect stock-to-sales planning with commercial finance and business actions is an advantage - Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with Power BI or planning tools is an advantage - Ability to turn data into clear insights, recommendations, and stakeholder-ready storytelling - Confident partnering with merchandising, commercial, operations, and finance stakeholders - Comfortable working with ambiguity, improving planning processes, and solving business problems - Detail-oriented, analytical, and able to balance commercial judgement with financial discipline

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