Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (Enterprise Planning)

Overview

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REI is seeking a dynamic and strategic Director of FP&A to manage the organization’s Enterprise Planning team. The FP&A Enterprise Planning team works closely with cross-divisional partners, performance insights, and predictive analytics. Their work is based on REI’s strategic priorities. The team builds the company’s demand, revenue, margin, and inventory plans. This role delivers financial insights that drive decision-making, resource allocation, and enterprise value creation. The Director will act as a thought partner to business and financial executives. The Director will align REI’s strategic priorities with data-driven insights and sound financial stewardship.

Responsibilities And Qualifications

Leading the Way (team leadership, coaching and development responsibilities for this “manager of staff”)

• Manages and develops a high-performing team of FP&A professionals.
• Fosters a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and purpose-driven performance.
• Champions FP&A best practices and modern tools to enhance forecasting, modeling, and analytics capabilities.
• Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices. Ensures the organization promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results.
• Supports the implementation of company programs, procedures, methods and practices to promote REI key messages.
• Challenges and inspires employees to achieve business results.
• Ensures employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.
• Oversees training and coaching of employees directly and indirectly managed with a focus on continuous employee growth and development.
• Provides vision, coaching, development opportunities, direction, and leadership to employees in order to achieve department, company and customer results.
• Establishes and maintains visibility within the department.
• Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action.
  
  
  

Your Planning & Navigating Requirements (the plans the job is responsible for creating and executing, and how the job ensures they are implemented)

Business Partnership & Strategic Support

• Develops a deep understanding of the company’s demand and revenue-driving operations and strategies. Leverages this knowledge to build, align, and explain a unified enterprise plan.
• Manages the finance inventory examination function. Responsible for driving cross-divisional visibility, reporting, planning, and accountability for inventory productivity. Manages inventory lifecycle management metrics and targets.
• Leads in connecting planners, analysts, and technology partners across divisions. Architects curated, data-governed, and more automated and predictive enterprise reporting.
• Plays a central role in aligning, consolidating, and delivering cross-divisional impact and scenario examination. Supports long-range plans, annual budgets, and forecasts for both short- and long-term business strategy.
• Translates business strategies into financial plans and investment cases to support growth, operational excellence, and customer engagement.
• Provides proactive insights on business performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Clearly articulates financial performance, goals and metrics to senior leadership, including narrative and measurement.
  
  
  

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Manages long-range planning, annual budgeting, quarterly and monthly forecasting processes for enterprise demand, revenue and margin.
• Defines clear financial limits and measurable milestones within our planning timelines and processes. Ensures understanding, alignment, and accountability across responsible organizations.
• Ensures alignment of financial plans with company goals and strategies.
• Monitors key financial metrics and develops scenarios to support agile, data-driven decision making.
• Manages comprehensive financial scenario examination as the business evolves. Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and guides the team to execute "what-if" exercises effectively in a fluid manner.
• Oversees financial analysis of major enterprise strategic priorities and initiatives. This includes associated costs, investments, value creation, and benefits. Oversees examination and communication of implementation results.
• Provides FP&A partners with key inputs, insights, and drivers. Supports building expense, resource, and capital planning across the company.
• Supports the Merchandising organization’s operating expense and capital budget creation and delivery.
  
  
  

Performance Management & Examination

• Delivers timely and actionable enterprise performance reporting.
• Provides proactive insights on business performance, risks and opportunities.
• Creates executive-ready dashboards, presentations, and insights to communicate business trends and financial implications.
• Partners with cross-divisional planning, analytics, and data teams. Develops and delivers KPIs that drive prioritized business results and outcomes.
• Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances, and issues, and takes action.
  
  
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborates closely with partner FP&A teams, Merchandising, Marketing, Customer & Membership, Stores, Digital, Supply Chain, Strategy, Accounting and Technology teams.
• Supports cross-functional initiatives and drives continuous improvement in broad enterprise planning collaboration, examination, reporting, and timely insights sharing.
  
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of FP&A or finance leadership experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, Accounting or similar
• Exceptional business partnership skills with experience influencing at the executive level
• Ability to effectively handle multiple contending priorities and deadlines under pressure
• Experience managing a team and scaling FP&A capabilities
• Proven ability to manage, develop, and grow an organization in a changing business environment with growth and shifting priorities.
• Proven success leading demand, revenue and margin planning teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Proven ability to prepare for and present at the executive level
• Experience working in retail, consumer and/or technology companies
• Exceptional critical and problem-solving skills
• Builds capacity of individuals and teams through effective employee development, involvement, communication, and supervision efforts
  
  
  

Closing

At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

Pay Transparency

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

Pay Range

$140,300.00 - $238,600.00 per year