Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Job Description

Lead Finance Enterprise | Academy Sports + Outdoors

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Academy Sports + Outdoors, located in Katy, TX. Academy is a sports + outdoors retailer committed to fostering growth and supporting its team members. This position is vital for analyzing and supporting financial planning and forecasting processes, translating data into meaningful insights for internal business partners. The role focuses on ensuring sound fiscal control and enabling the achievement of financial targets across the enterprise.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Katy, TX

• Team: Finance team, partnering with internal business partners and senior management.
• Mission: Owns financial planning support, analysis, and reporting to enable business strategies and ensure financial targets are met.
• Tech Stack: Advanced Excel skills

What You’ll Actually Do
• Planning & Forecasting: Analyze and support annual planning and monthly forecasting processes and models for financial and internal planning partners.
• Business Partnership: Own financial planning support for internal business partners, translating wide sources of data into useful insights.
• Reporting & Analysis: Produce the delivery of weekly, monthly, and quarterly executive reporting, including performance reporting and ad-hoc analysis.
• Strategic Guidance: Collaborate and provide guidance to senior management teams to help them define and enable business strategies.
• Financial Project Support: Provide financial support related to feasibility analysis, ROI, margin implementation, and business case development.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or equivalent, focusing on planning, forecasting, analyzing reporting, and business partnering.
• Experience: At least eight (8) years of experience in areas including planning, forecasting, analyzing reporting, and business partnering.
• Skills: Advanced Excel skills; ability to analyze financial data, prepare financial reports, and develop projections; thorough knowledge of financial statements, accounting principles, and industry data sources; ability to develop and apply complex models to measure risk.
• Bonus: MBA/MSF or CPA preferred; previous FP&A/Corporate Finance experience preferred; Retail/e-commerce experience a plus; Strategy/management consulting or Investment Banking experience will be considered.