Rent A Center, Corporate

Director Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Purpose: Provide insightful actionable analysis and reporting to drive sound business decisions. The Director will do so through highly quantitative analysis of customer behaviors (e.g., margin/volume tradeoff, price sensitivity, etc.), price/product modeling, tests vs. control analysis, and financial modeling.  The Manager will collaborate closely with Sales Strategy, Marketing, Merchandising, and Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with key business owners to identify areas needing financial support and analysis
• Develop, maintain and enhance analytical models to determine optimal profitability/financial impact of commercial initiatives and present findings to executive management
• Analyze large datasets and improve existing/create new analyses to provide analytical insights and recommendations to enable continuous, measurable improvement of campaigns and sales events
• Analyze the overall business, perform root cause analysis, and identify best practices.
• Partner with Operations & Commercial teams to successfully implement tests, measure results, and make collaborative recommendations.
• Develop complex financial models to forecast future business prospects
• Prepare budgets, forecasts, financial plans, and statistical reports
• Prepare presentations in support of board and shareholder meetings, monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company
• Lead recurring meetings with senior management to discuss business results and offer insights on opportunities to improve performance.
• Create ad hoc reports utilizing reporting and analysis tools
• Additional duties and projects as assigned

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., finance, economics, business, engineering).  MBA preferred
• Five to seven years’ experience in FP&A and/or highly analytical role with two years of supervisory experience and knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within finance.
• Strong business acumen coupled with exceptional analytical, problem solving and influencing skills
• Passion for turning data into actionable insights and strong ability to tell stories with data
• Excellent communications skills and the ability to interact with executive management
• Ability to develop effective working relationships across the company’s operations
• Proven record of results in highly analytical, ambiguous and complex business settings
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with proven ability to multi-task
• Self-motivated, independent and resourceful
• Extremely proficient in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SQL.  Experience in Tableau helpful
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office with demonstrated expertise in PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint

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