Financial Planning Analyst II (Financial Planning & Analysis)

ABOUT THE POSITION

Columbia Sportswear Finance & Accounting teams oversee the financial health and forward strategy for a portfolio of four global brands. These teams exercise expertise across Compliance, Credit, Financial Planning and Reporting, Tax, Treasury, and Strategy.  Advancing traditional Finance & Accounting functions, the organization is also driving exciting innovation in the application of advanced analytics and automated intelligence.  

As a Financial Analyst for Columbia Sportswear, you will provide strategic and financial support to drive effective, efficient, and informed decisions for your aligned business areas. You will drive all aspects of financial planning (long-range planning, budgeting, and forecasting) and analysis for these organizations, including supporting major projects. You will receive broad exposure to the corporate operations of a multinational and opportunities to work with a number of cross functional partners and leaders.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Influence, enable and coach your business partners to make sound business decisions. Prepare accurate, timely month-end reporting for leadership, with a strong focus on detail and quality.
• Develop and utilize driver-based financial modeling and analysis. Monitor and forecast keys areas of spend. Identify budget gaps and work with business partners to adjust spending plans. Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliations and accruals to ensure. accurate expense recognition
• Lead the development and compilation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts, as well as forecast-to-actual variances analysis. Support the planning, execution, and analysis of forecasting cycles, including annual budgets and quarterly updates.
• Actively engage in the development of strategic long-range financial plans.
• Create insightful and accurate reporting tools, processes, and ad hoc analyses with a focus on clear storytelling, action-oriented output, and an ongoing drive for continuous improvement.
• Support cross-functional initiative investments through collaborative, robust business cases development, ROI analysis, and Key Performance indicators tracking.

YOU ARE

• Nimble and detail-oriented, able to work in a fast-paced environment with accuracy  
• Able to build rapport and effective relationships with a large number of partners while serving as a challenger in the development of sound financial/business plans  
• Curious, going beyond the surface to find opportunity and harvest it
• Customer-focused and influencing, capable of emphasizing information to enable and guide cross-functional Senior Management decision-making processes aimed at growth and profitability

YOU HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, related field, or equivalent
• 2+ years’ experience focused on financial forecasting, budgeting, and analysis with demonstrated organizational and communication abilities
• Proficiency in Excel modeling and presentation development.
• Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to identify potential and/or existing financial issues, evaluate available options and recommend corrective action
• Experience with visual analytics tools such as Power BI or Tableau, data intelligence tools such as Data Bricks, and/or prior experience with enterprise-level planning systems such as IBM Cognos TM1 strongly preferred

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.