About The Position

Columbia Sportswear Finance & Accounting teams overseethefinancial health and forward strategy for a portfolio of four global brands. These teams exercise expertise across Compliance, Credit, FinancialPlanning andReporting, Tax, Treasury, and Strategy. Advancing traditional Finance & Accounting functions, the organization is also driving exciting innovation in the applicationofadvanced analytics andautomatedintelligence.

As a Financial Analyst for Columbia Sportswear, you will provide strategic and financial support to drive effective, efficient, and informed decisions for your aligned business areas. You will drive all aspects of financial planning (long-range planning,budgeting,and forecasting) and analysis for these organizations, including supporting major projects. You will receivebroad exposure to the corporate operations of a multinational and opportunities to work with a number of cross functional partners and leaders.

How You'll Make a Difference

Influence,enableand coachyour business partners to make sound business decisions. Prepare accurate, timely month-end reporting for leadership, with a strong focus on detail and quality.
Develop and utilize driver-based financial modeling and analysis. Monitor and forecast keys areas of spend. Identify budget gaps and work with business partners to adjust spending plans. Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliations and accruals to ensure. accurate expense recognition
Lead the development and compilation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts, as well as forecast-to-actual variances analysis. Support the planning, execution, and analysis of forecasting cycles, including annual budgets and quarterly updates.
Actively engage in the development of strategic long-range financial plans.
Create insightful and accurate reporting tools,processes,and ad hoc analyses with a focus on clear storytelling, action-oriented output,and an ongoing drive for continuous improvement.
Support cross-functional initiative investments through collaborative, robust business cases development, ROI analysis, and Key Performance indicators tracking.

YOU ARE

Nimble and detail-oriented, ableto work in a fast-paced environment with accuracy
Able to build rapport andeffective relationships with a large number of partnerswhile serving asa challenger inthedevelopment ofsound financial/business plans
Curious,goingbeyond thesurface to find opportunity and harvest it
Customer-focused and influencing, capable ofemphasizinginformationto enableandguidecross-functional Senior Management decision-making processesaimed at growth and profitability

YOU HAVE

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, related field, or equivalent
2+years experiencefocused onfinancial forecasting, budgeting,andanalysiswith demonstratedorganizational and communication abilities
Proficiency in Excel modeling and presentation development.
Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to identify potential and/or existing financial issues, evaluate available options and recommend corrective action
Experience with visual analytics tools such as Power BIor Tableau, data intelligence tools such as Data Bricks, and/or prior experience with enterprise-level planning systems such as IBM Cognos TM1 strongly preferred

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Financial Planning Analyst II (Financial Planning & Analysis)