Finance Manager, Merchandise Strategy - San Francisco, United States - Stitch Fix

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**Finance Manager, Merchandise Strategy & Analytics**

at Stitch Fix San Francisco, CA or Remote, USA ****ABOUT THE TEAM****

The Stitch Fix Finance team enables our clients to be their best self. We broadly define our clients as customers, business partners, and shareholders. Our mission is Partners in Growth, and we drive value through business partner support, innovative and insightful analysis, and financial integrity. We are looking for bright and kind individuals motivated by challenge, specifically those who succeed in a fast-paced environment and will thrive in building and improving processes to scale Stitch Fix to the next level

****ABOUT THE ROLE****

Stitch Fixs mission is to transform the way people find what they love. With a decade of experience designing personalized solutions for our clients, we're reimagining the future of eCommerce with Stitch Fix Freestyle, our newest truly personalized direct to consumer sales model. As well, we have embarked on a multi-year strategy to create value through our supplier relationships and provide outsized growth opportunities for our vendor partners by **incubating and scaling new inventory models** and **translating new commercial engagement terms with our suppliers into finance models**.

The FP&A Manager of Merchandise Finance will play a critical role in enabling these strategic initiatives by helping to define new business insights and analytics to **evaluate our inventory health**, help **stand up new models** for our operating teams to leverage that quantify the impact of new programs on our financial statements, and **implement new data elements and systems** for annual and quarterly financial operating plans. This person will be a key partner to our Commercial Programs, Merchandise Planning and Merchandise Finance teams.

****YOURE EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE YOU WILL****

Partner with operational Merchandise Finance team to Identify and develop finance instrumentation to measure merchandise margin and inventory health for our Freestyle and Fix sales channels

Design, test and implement new financial planning data elements and forecast tools for our operational side of the merchandise finance team

Lead change management for the Merch Finance team to implement and integrate new forecast models into monthly, quarterly and annual financial forecasting processes

Ensure consistency across cross-functional financial and inventory planning systems and continue to build out our connected planning vision in Anaplan

Model the financial impacts of strategic programs related to COGS and inventory on our P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement

Collaborate with Commercial Programs and operational side of Merchandise Finance team to define profitability and operational management reporting for new programs

Present impacts of commercial programs during key finance milestones, e.g. forecast and close review, to finance leadership

Build ad hoc models as needed to provide new business insights and analytics to help inform annual, quarterly and monthly forecasts and business decisions

**WERE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE...**

You have a minimum 6-8 years of experience in finance with **a specific focus on FP&A and merchandise finance, merchandise planning and inventory management**

You have a minimum of 1-2 years of management experience with proven track record of developing talent

You have a BA / BS in a related field

You have 1-2 years of experience designing Anaplan models

You have experience managing and building financial statements and strong acumen in **financial modeling**

You are a strategic problem solver with the proven ability to structure a data-driven approach to complex business problems

You are a focused, organized, and results-driven individual with the discipline and confidence to drive a diverse set of cross-functional partners towards a set of defined goals and challenge the status quo to improve our business

You enjoy working in a high paced environment, are highly flexible and able to thrive with ambiguity

You take ownership, are an inventive problem solver and have a high level of accountability

You have strong communication skills and are able to convey complex ideas in a clear, concise manner both verbally and in writing

You are enthusiastic about the retail industry, have a passion for learning, and are motivated by challenge

You have strong Microsoft and Google Suite skills

You have excellent process planning, problem solving and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail

You have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

You have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with an Executive team

Youre highly self-motivated, have a stellar work ethic and youre looking for the right company to support your growth

Above all else you are bright, kind and motivated by challenge

**WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT STITCH FIX...**

We are a group of bright and kind people who are motivated by challenge. You can be your authentic self here, and are empowered to encourage others to do the same

We are a successful, fast-growing company at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining retail for the next generation

We are a technologically and data-driven business

We are committed to our clients and connected through our vision of Transforming the way people find what they love

We love solving problems, thinking creatively and trying new things

We believe in autonomy & taking initiative

We are challenged, developed and have meaningful impact

We take what we do seriously. We dont take ourselves seriously

We have a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas

We offer competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits

You will be proud to say that you work for Stitch Fix and will know that the work you do brings joy to our clients every day

****ABOUT STITCH FIX****

At Stitch Fix, were about personal styling for everybody and we believe in both a service and a workplace where you can be your best, most authentic self. Were the first fashion retailer to combine technology and data science with the human instinct of a Stylist to deliver a deeply personalized shopping experience. This novel juxtaposition attracts a highly diverse group of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. All of this results in a simple, powerful offering to our customers and a successful, growing business serving millions of men, women, and kids. We believe we are only scratching the surface on our opportunity, and were looking for incredible people like you to help us carry on that trend.

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