Company Overview:
Party City Holdco Inc. (PCHI) is a global leader in the celebrations industry, with its offerings spanning more than 70 countries around the world. Party City is the largest retailer of party goods in North America.
PCHI operates across multiple businesses within its Retail Division and Consumer Products Division. On the retail side, Party City (partycity.com) is the leading omnichannel retailer in the celebrations category, operating more than 750 company-owned and franchise stores. The Consumer Products Division includes design and manufacturing entity Amscan, an industry leader in celebration décor, tableware, costumes, and accessories.
PCHI is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. with additional locations throughout the Americas and Asia.
Job Overview:
The Senior Financial Analyst will be responsible for providing planning and analysis support to the Amscan Wholesale and Manufacturing operations of Party City. The role will be responsible for providing executive decision support through the development of processes, tools, reporting, and complex data analytics to drive continuous improvement of business processes. The Sr. Financial Analyst will possess a high level of general business acumen, strong analytical skills, ability to successfully manage simultaneous projects, and outstanding interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Help ensure financial data is maintained in consistent formats and helps drive improved business performance.
- Help revamp budget/forecast models to streamline processes for greater efficiency and productivity.
- Ensure timely and accurate budgets and forecast consolidation
- Provide sales, margin and expense variance analysis and key driver commentary
- Partner with Supply Chain and DC operations to monitor and report on KPIs related to supply chain costs, inventory levels and distribution efficiency
- Help report and establish key business performance metrics and improvements in the monthly
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency of processes, streamline collection, use and presentation of data.
- Analyze current business and system processes for potential areas of improvement.
- Actively participate in problem solving initiatives to determine root cause, gap analysis, along with the development and implementation of process improvement recommendations.
- Support Senior Management with ad hoc reporting and analysis.
Skills Required:
- Creative problem-solving skills, with a curiosity that challenges status quo, actively seeks new experiences, knowledge and challenges.
- Makes sense of a vast range of information from multiple sources to conceptualize, drive creativity, problem solve, and follow through on action.
- Hyperion experience preferred
- Ability to manage multiple work streams/projects and ad hoc requests with tight timelines.
- Strong technical aptitude, including ability to learn company systems/tools and create process efficiencies.
- Strong Excel modeling skills.
- Strong Collaborator who demonstrates ability to influence beyond scope of position.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics (MBA preferred), OR equivalent work experience
- 5+ years' experience in a FP&A role
- Strong working knowledge of Financial Statements (P&L/Balance Sheet/ Cash Flows)
- Proficient in using multiple financial software (e.g. Hyperion, Excel, BPCS)
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