Salary
💰 $115,700 - $140,000 per year
About the role
- Perform financial and operational analysis for consulting projects with independent retailers.
- Conduct in-person consulting sessions with independent retail store owners.
- Review and analyze financial statements, including balance sheet, P&L and cash flow statements, income tax returns, and POS data.
- Build and utilize budget forecasting and cash flow models.
- Perform financial analysis against industry benchmarks to gauge current performance.
- Identify and quantify operational and financial improvement opportunities for independent retail stores.
- Identify retailer accounting procedure and control issues, formulate improvement plans, and communicate recommendations for implementation.
- Develop and facilitate retail business training, including new training tools and modules; function as trainer and presenter for internal and external training programs.
- Support financial training initiatives and assist retailers in developing business plans by facilitating the planning process and developing key operating assumptions.
- Assist retailers with growth plans, providing guidance on forecasting, measuring debt service manageability, and delivering requirements of BMC's store growth programs (Branching-out Program - BOP and New Entrepreneur Program - NEP).
- Support market distribution plans and present improvement and growth strategies to retailers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Accounting and/or Finance.
- Relevant certification or MBA preferred.
- Strong financial statement analysis skills.
- Minimum 4 years of financial and business analysis including budgeting and forecasting.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, with proven ability to develop effective face-to-face business partner relationships at all levels.
- Prior experience providing financial support to senior leadership is a plus.
- Must be highly analytical and inquisitive with strong business acumen, critical thinking skills, financial modeling, keen attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines and goals.
- Strong technical aptitude, including competency in Excel and experience using other Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint), and the ability to quickly master new applications and systems.
- Ability to work in a team-based continuous improvement environment.
- Knowledge of point-of-sale and small business accounting software packages.
- Ability to travel up to 40-60%.