About the role
Associate, Corporate Strategy & Finance Associate, Corporate Strategy & Finance
What You'll Do Solve problems across the entire business, not just finance—digging into marketing, site merchandising, product development, promotions, and inventory to surface insights and drive better decisions across all of our brands Work with an AI-first mindset, leveraging AI tools to work faster and smarter alongside traditional analytical methods. Excel proficiency is essential, but learning how AI can solve problems in new and exciting ways is part of
the role Go beyond building Excel models and producing standard financial reports—success in this role means solving complex, often non-finance problems and thinking through the first-, second-, and third-order effects of decisions spanning marketing, inventory, accounts payable, and everything in between Support corporate development including mergers & acquisitions, capital raises, and partnerships including modeling, negotiation, and decision making Lead preparation of strategic financial reporting and conduct ongoing financial forecasting to provide management clear visibility into the company's financial performance and outlook Own special projects, analyses, and outcomes end-to-end with little to no direction or supervision, exercising sound judgment and strong decision-making to take ambiguous problems from question to recommendation Play a key role in our annual budgeting and forecasting process, collaborating across all departments and ensuring alignment with our corporate strategy Analyze financial and operational data across all of our brands to explain variance drivers and provide recommendations for improvement with a strong understanding of our strategic priorities for each business unit and overall corporate strategy Develop and keep various business analytics across functions including marketing, finance, operations and development KPIs, via sophisticated dashboards and performance tracking Summarize analytical results clearly and concisely to support recommendations and inform key decisions in resource allocations Continuously develop and innovate around both standard, ad-hoc reporting and analytics
