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This role serves as the communications partner to our Finance organization, responsible for crafting clear, compelling narratives that support employee understanding, investor confidence, and the company’s overall reputation.The ideal candidate brings strong financial acumen, deep experience supporting publicly traded companies, and a solid understanding of the retail and apparel industry. This person understands the rhythms and sensitivities of public company communications-earnings cycles, disclosure expectations, and high stakes messaging-and can translate complex financial and industry insights into accessible, human centered communications for internal and external audiences.\nWhat You'll Do\nEvolve Gap Inc.’s financial narrative, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment across internal and external communications.\nSupport strategic storytelling for quarterly financial cycles, including contributing to the development of earnings scripts, press releases, and Q&A documents.\nTranslate financial results, performance drivers, and strategy into meaningful, engaging narratives that help employees understand business performance and their role in driving it.\nDevelop and manage internal communications programs, including content for enterprise wide town halls, leadership forums, financial updates, and other internal moments.\nSupport the CFO with speeches, presentations, talking points, and thought leadership content.\nPartner closely with Finance, Investor Relations and Media Relations to ensure financial messaging is accurate, compliant, and strategically positioned.\nEngage with business and financial media in partnership with Media Relations to reinforce credibility and market confidence.\nProvide communications counsel to ensure alignment with legal considerations and public company requirements.\n Build strong cross functional relationships to ensure financial communications are timely, consistent, and integrated across teams and audiences.\nWho You Are\n10+ years of experience in corporate communications, preferably with an emphasis on financial, corporate, or executive communications.\nExperience working within or supporting a publicly traded company, including familiarity with earnings cycles, disclosure requirements, and market-sensitive communications.\nStrong financial acumen, with the ability to interpret financial statements and distill complex data into clear and compelling narratives.\nKnowledge of the retail and apparel industry a plus including market trends, competitive dynamics, and business drivers.\nExperience partnering with or managing business and financial media.\nExceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills-able to convey complexity with clarity, precision, and human relevance.\nProven success advising senior executives and navigating fast-paced, high-visibility communications moments.\nConfident, calm, and collaborative in a highly matrixed, fast-paced environment.\nExceptional emotional intelligence (EQ) and diplomacy skills.\nBachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Business, or related field; 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