Sr. Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Position Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze operating performance, evaluate pricing strategies, sales and merchandising strategies based on product/customer profitability, operational cost efficiencies, working capital management, competitive analysis, benchmarking, and market dynamics.
• Contribute to M&A activities, venturing initiatives, capital investment analysis, real estate investment analysis, and decision support.
• Create presentations and provide decision support in communications with the executive leadership team, Board of Directors, private equity sponsors, and trading partners.
• Develop and deliver in-depth reporting and analysis, from routine to ad hoc financial reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually), multi-dimensional scorecards, complex dynamic models, and executive presentations for senior management, product teams, and regional managers.
• Participate in special corporate finance projects, including financial strategy development, capital structure analysis, and financing transactions.
• Provide analytical support to key field business units and market-facing corporate functional units (e.g., E-Commerce, Marketing, B2B, and B2C ventures).
• Review and analyze operating unit profitability, margin trends, monthly budget-to-actual, operating and overhead variance analysis, financial metric sensitivity analysis, ad-hoc analysis, and reporting (e.g., ROA, ROI, EVA).

• Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Analytical Processes - The ability and skill to apply appropriate analytical processes and procedures to support research schedules including the proficient use of analysis software required in role.
• Analyze Alternatives & Recommend Solutions - Ability to analyze potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders; Business capability analysis, Business model canvas, Business rules analysis, Concept modeling, Prototyping
• Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business Insights - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Costing and Budgeting - Awareness of costing, budgeting and finance concepts and the ability and skill to apply to related processes and procedures.
• Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Customer & Market Analysis - The ability and skill to analyze and research customer and market conditions and facts in order to develop a full and comprehensive understanding of the customer and its market to enable maximum returns.
• Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc)
• Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Financial Accounting - The ability and skill to apply financial accounting principles, classifying, measuring and recording company financial transactions including proficiency in related software
• Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Presentation skills - The ability to communicate and deliver information verbally in a clear, concise and compelling manner to other people.
• Review and Reporting - The ability and skill to create reports, and review reports created by others, for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
5 years of related experience preferred

Skills

• Analyze Alternatives & Recommend Solutions
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer & Market Analysis
• Decision Quality
• Costing and Budgeting
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Nimble Learning
• Plans & Aligns
• Presentation Skills
• Review and Reporting
• Situational Adaptability
• Self-Development
• Tech Savvy
• Analytical Processes
• Action Planning
• Financial Acumen
• Resourcefulness
• Financial Accounting
• Collaboration

Physical Demands Category: Office

Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: As required by the position.

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

Build a challenging and rewarding career with us!

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