Bloomingdale's Director, Retail Financial Planning

Bloomingdale's makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial, and collaborative, embracing diversity of background, thought, and opinion while having fun along the way.

About the role

The Director of Financial Analytics & Planning leads detailed financial modeling, reporting, and analytics with direct oversight over Outlet financial planning and forecasting. This role delivers data-driven insights, manages forecasting systems, and supports financial decision-making through deep analytical rigor.

Responsibilities

• Owns end-to-end forecasting process (ROF, flash, variance) within enterprise systems (e.g., OneStream), ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Maintains and enhances detailed forecasting models across sales, margin, and inventory, aligning assumptions to actual performance
• Produces actionable analytics on sales, margin, damages, and inventory trends to identify key performance drivers
• Builds and distributes datasets, reporting, and insights to inform leadership decisions and operational actions
• Leads Outlet financial planning, including store-level performance, openings/closures, and footprint optimization
• Models financial impact of operational changes, including timing, inventory flow, and store strategy shifts
• Investigates and resolves financial variances (e.g., RTV timing, vendor settlements, damages) in partnership with accounting and operations
• Owns financial systems and processes, including reporting tools, submissions, and executive-level commentary for forecasts
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university
• 5+ years of related experience
• Strong focus on analytics, systems, reporting infrastructure, and knowledge of SQL
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across functional lines and at many levels
• Ability to think creatively, strategically, and technically
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs
• Strong skills in data manipulation and development of dynamic financial models

Qualifications

This role involves performing essential job functions such as communication, collaboration, and use of office and computer systems. Responsibilities include the ability to access and review written and electronic information, and to move within the work environment and interact with workplace materials as needed to carry out job responsibilities.

Practices open and continuous communication, values keeping others informed, and effectively presents information in a clear, concise manner.