Finance Manager, Regional

Advance Auto Parts•Raleigh, NC

20h

About The Position

The Manager of Finance will lead the finance support to core operational strategies for retail business in multi-billion dollars. The primary objective is to serve as a proactive strategic business challenger and partner, leading all aspects of FP&A, decision support, revenue generation, cost control, and margin improvement. This position is responsible for helping create long-term financial and operational strategies as well as managing near-term performance. It plays a critical role in driving ownership, accountability, and financial horsepower into the business through financial planning, forecasting, measuring, interpreting, and implementing key performance metrics and analytics. Additionally, this role is expected to lead cross-functional initiatives to capitalize on opportunities and work collaboratively across the organization. This position will help guide the senior leadership team in business performance and financial discipline, providing analytical rigor to all business-related strategies, initiatives, and activities to maximize value, minimize risks, and aid in decision-making. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded top performer with demonstrated leadership and communication skills necessary to effectively articulate critical financial information, influence management decision-making, and deliver results.

Requirements

Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Desire to get involved and explore new areas of responsibility.
Team level communication and presentation skills (Storyline, Recommendations, Format, & Delivery).
Ability to model financials with a solid understanding of accounting principles.
Ability to leverage technology to get at more information, more deeply, and more efficiently.
Ability to translate desired outcomes into your underlying work product.
Ability to define problems, collect data, perform analysis, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to present information and respond to questions from groups of senior management, department heads, and the Finance teams.
Attention to quality, reconciliation, and accuracy are critical as the audience is often mgmt/exec level staff and the decisions being made are significant in scope/impact.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related.
4+ years of experience in a Finance field.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degrees such as an MBA or cross specialization with a technical specialty (Comp Science, Mathematics, etc.)

Responsibilities

Lead the planning, forecasting and analysis activities across multiple territories.
Identify key performance metrics for each territory, and regularly measure against those metrics to ensure the organization is focused on achieving results as planned.
Analyze assumptions used to develop the Company’s key strategic initiatives to validate their potential to produce adequate financial return, the impact they will have on operations, and the likelihood of fulfilling long-term strategic expectations.
Provide recommendations for modifications to key initiatives where appropriate.
Identify potential risks and provide proactive solutions as key initiatives are implemented.
Develop reports & insights to Company leaders regarding major accomplishments as well as areas of opportunities to improve financial performance.
Build, develop, manage and maintain competent, engaged and highly motivated analysts and managers.
Develop the financial and business acumen of direct reports, especially as it relates to the business area they primarily support.
Analyze specific areas within territories that are not generating results according to plan.
Partner with business leaders to estimate the financial performance of new programs under consideration.
Aid in prioritizing strategies and initiatives within each business area.