What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Data and Financial Analyst position at The Beaufort Bonnet Company?
The Beaufort Bonnet Company's mission is to make people happy. Although we have grown significantly throughout the years, our company culture still exudes small business charm.
We offer competitive benefits packages which may include generous vacation policy, health and wellness coverage, 401k with company match, discounted stock purchasing, options for education reimbursement, and amazing product discounts! We value work-life balance and offer a flexible corporate office environment.
The Financial Analyst supports Finance and Brand leadership through the development of the annual budget, reforecast, and create meaningful and timely analyses to support and improve the business. The Financial Analyst will serve as a key liaison with Oxford corporate accounting. This role will be relied on to support business strategies, provide input on financial processes and highlight risks and opportunities while support Finance leadership. The Financial Analyst will develop financial models, collect and evaluate data, analyze results, and make recommendations to support a wide variety of business decisions including operational investments, inventory, product margin, sales, etc.
Data Analysis & Reporting:
- Develop data models and reporting tools that empower the organization to meet financial targets through data-driven insights, enhancing visibility into business profitability.
- Utilize Microsoft Power BI to design dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights into critical business metrics.
- Track and analyze margin performance in collaboration with the Product team, creating scenario plans to drive margin improvements.
- Review sales reports to identify trends and provide strategic recommendations aimed at fueling business growth.
- Produce and interpret weekly, monthly, and seasonal reports on in-season product sales and post-season performance for the Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) channel.
- Gather and analyze data from various sources to generate both standard and ad-hoc reports on DTC channel performance and sales metrics.
- Prepare benchmarking data and track key company metrics to evaluate performance.
Business Systems Management:
- Oversee and optimize key business systems including Exenta, Shopify, Stocky, SAP, and BPC to improve operational efficiency and data integrity.
- Develop and maintain reporting tools that enhance visibility into business profitability and performance across all departments.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in key software and systems, managing testing, updates, and troubleshooting activities.
- Provide system training for new hires and ongoing training on new functionalities for existing users.
- Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, such as Exenta error codes and inventory discrepancies, to ensure seamless operations.
- Manage and resolve outdated and negative inventory, including unfulfilled orders, past warehouse data, and inventory metrics requiring cycle counts.
Budgeting, Reforecasting, and Business Planning:
- Serve as lead role supporting parent company accounting function during monthly/quarterly/annual close processes, as well as ad-hoc accounting requests and requirements.
- Support the business in developing the company's annual budget process, development of strategic plans (1, 3, 5 years) and presentations to parent company.
- Prepare quarterly/annual financial budgets, reforecast reports and schedules to management and parent company.
- Monitor weekly/monthly progress against functional budgets, results and targets and work with business leads to ensure accountability. Work with leaders within the business to understand actuals, explain variances and tracking action plans to bring financial results back to plan.
- Prepare and distribute accurate, timely and insightful financial analysis of pertinent information to determine progress against strategic plan, budget, forecast, and to support business decisions.
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the business by providing insightful analysis to explain trends within month end reporting, budgets and forecasts and identify value creating opportunities.
- Assist and review the continued development of budgeting, financial forecasting, operating planning and modeling tools/processes.
Financial reporting and modeling:
- Partner with the Senior Manager of Financial Analysis in the development of the annual budget, reforecasting, and long-term strategic planning.
- Develop and maintain scorecards to assess financial performance against budgets and forecasts.
- Contribute to the enhancement of reporting, analysis, and forecasting tools within the finance department.
- Prepare, monitor, and interpret key financial reports, identifying meaningful variances and trends to present to location management and the parent company.
- Support scenario planning and financial modeling to assess the impact of various business strategies, providing insights to guide decision-making on cost management and profitability optimization.
- Build out tools, processes and systems for distribution of financial information and “real time” operational reporting.
- Be an embedded partner with all T.B.B.C. functions to ensure accurate and timely performance messaging and target setting assumptions.
- Serve as a partner to the business, supporting the Senior TBBC leadership team in assessing strategic options, analyzing data, and providing recommendations.
You will love this job if you...
- Have excellent time management, organization skills and acute attention to detail.
- Have strong oral and written communication skills to be able to convey information clearly and concisely.
- Can quickly analyze and prioritize work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Excel at listening to be able to understand needs, opportunities and constraints.
- Enjoy problem solving
Who we would like to meet:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or Business required.
- Generally, 4 years of relevant experience; experience related to information systems or corporate finance preferred.
- Experience with Power BI.
- Demonstrated skills in the areas of strategic thinking and financial modeling.
What happens next?
If you are interested in this opportunity please apply! You will receive an email confirming we received your application. We will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or information at any time by accessing your candidate profile.
This Company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against qualified applicants based on based on race, color, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religious creed, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, military and veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, reproductive health decision-making, lawful off-duty use of marijuana, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need an accommodation to complete an online application, please contact the location you are applying to or contact us at
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