Financial Planning and Analysis Senior Analyst

Company Overview: MacKenzie-Childs is a leading home furnishings retail company known for its unique design, high-quality products and exceptional customer service. We specialize in offering a wide range of kitchen, entertaining, décor and furniture items that cater to various styles and preferences, ensuring our customers find exactly what they need to make their homes joyful and stylish.

Position Summary:

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Senior Analyst will play a critical role in driving financial insight, forecasting accuracy, and decision support. This role partners closely with Planning, Merchandising, Operations, and Sales & Marketing to analyze performance, manage budgets and forecasts, and support strategic initiatives that improve profitability and operational efficiency across the organization.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is curious, analytical, commercial-minded, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

Key areas of responsibility:

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Support the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes across ecommerce, retail and wholesale channels
• Develop revenue, margin, and expense forecasts by channel
• Analyze variances versus budget, forecast, and prior periods; clearly communicate key drivers and assist with root-cause analysis and solution identification

Business & Performance Analysis

• Provide detailed analysis of sales performance, gross margin, promotions, pricing, and cost drivers
• Analyze inventory performance, turns, markdowns, and obsolescence in partnership with Planning and Merchandising and participate in performance improvement projects

Strategic & Decision Support

• Build financial models to support new product launches, proposed operational changes and channel expansion opportunities
• Support long-range planning, scenario analysis, and sensitivity modeling
• Prepare financial presentations and insights for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Reporting & Process Improvement

• Own and enhance management reporting dashboards and KPIs across the buisness
• Improve forecasting accuracy through better data, assumptions, and tools
• Identify opportunities to streamline FP&A processes and improve financial systems and data integrity

Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as a trusted finance partner to Sales, Merchandising, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams

Supervisory Responsibilities: No supervisory responsibilities