The Senior Director of Finance plays a critical leadership role in advancing the financial planning forecasting and business decisionsupport capabilities of Batteries Plus. This position oversees enterprise FP&A and is the key financial partner for several core areas of the business including our corporate store division (CPS) franchise network commercial sales and merchandising. This leader will deliver actionable insights and financial guidance that inform strategic initiatives capital allocation and operational performance across the companys dual retail and commercial models. The role requires a handson strategist who can work across functions lead a highperforming team and bring rigor to planning processes in a growing multichannel franchisebased environment.
Essential Responsibilities
Financial Leadership
- Lead all aspects of enterprise financial planning including annual budgeting rolling forecasts and longrange financial models.
- Serve as the primary financial business partner to teams overseeing Corporate Stores (CPS) Franchise Operations Commercial Sales and Merchandising.
- Support the CFO in shaping financial strategy and communicating business performance to executive
- stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain longrange financial forecasting models and scenarioplanning methodologies that support strategic decisionmaking and investment planning
- Foster a highperformance finance culture through crossfunctional collaboration continuous process improvement and talent development.
Reporting & Executive Communication
- Own timely accurate and forwardlooking financial reporting to the Executive Team and Board.
- Support the CFO in preparing materials and presenting financial results forecasts and business insights to the Board of Directors and private equity stakeholders.
- Develop dashboards and performance scorecards that track key business metrics and highlight actionable opportunities.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead and develop the FP&A team fostering a culture of ownership analytical rigor and crossfunctional collaboration.
- Continuously improve financial processes systems (e.g. Vena Looker) and data tools to scale with business growth.
Merchandise Finance & Business Analytics
- Work with Merchandising to evaluate category performance vendor funding SKU productivity and promotional ROI.
- Lead financial analysis for assortment strategies inventory investments and vendor negotiations.
- Deliver insight into gross margin performance and opportunities for margin enhancement.
Corporate Stores (CPS) & Franchise Finance
- Deliver storelevel financial insights for over 100 corporateowned locations including sales trends labor optimization and contribution margin analysis.
- Develop franchisee economic models to support onboarding territory planning and unitlevel profitability evaluations.
- Partner with Franchise Operations leadership to analyze field performance and return on field investments.
Commercial Finance
- Collaborate with the Commercial Sales team to analyze customerlevel profitability contract performance sales team metrics and channel economics.
- Provide financial support for B2B initiatives national account opportunities and verticalspecific strategy development.
Investment & Capital Planning
- Provide analytical support on capital allocation decisions and assess return on investment for key initiatives including internal business cases and capex deployments.
M&A Support
- Provide financial modeling and due diligence support for 12 M&A transactions annually including synergy analysis and integration planning.
- Track postclose performance against deal proformas to identify areas of over or underperformance and support operational improvements.
- Leverage learnings from prior deals to refine assumptions risk factors and integration strategies for future transactions.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the associate for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting or related field; MBA preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive finance experience with a strong FP&A and business partnership track record.
- Retail franchise and/or multiunit business experience is strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of B2B and consumer economics including unitlevel performance analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and influence at the executive level.
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
The physical demands required to perform the essential responsibilities of this position are as follows. Reasonable accommodations if necessary and/or as required by law will be made available.
- The position requires the associate to regularly sit use hands to handle or touch talk hear and occasionally lift up to twentyfive pounds
- Special vision requirements include close vision
- This position requires regular use of a computer copier and other standard office equipment
- The level of noise in the officeworking environment is quiet
Affirmative Action / EEO Statement
It is the policy of Batteries Plus to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability marital status veteran status sexual orientation genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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