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Director, Financial Planning

Barnes & Noble, Inc. · New York, New York, United States · 6 days ago
Finance$175k–$225k/yrFull-time

Key Areas Of Responsibilities

  • Own the enterprise-wide planning process, setting the standard for how the organization forecasts, budgets, and reports — establishing a cadence that is proactive, consistent, and decision-ready.
  • Lead the monthly financial performance review, synthesizing results to deliver meaningful commentary and strategic insight that informs leadership decision-making.
  • Translate financial performance into actionable guidance, delivering analysis that connects P&L results, capital deployment, and business initiatives to the Company’s growth objectives.
  • Act as a trusted strategic advisor to the executive committee, proactively surfacing risks, opportunities, and recommendations through high-quality board packages, scorecards, and executive reporting.
  • Drive cross-functional financial partnership, collaborating with business and functional leaders to embed financial rigor into operational strategies and organizational initiatives.
  • Govern the capital planning and approval process, ensuring a rigorous investment evaluation framework — including ROI modeling — is in place to assess key initiatives and hold the business accountable to deliver shareholder value.
  • Spearhead the evaluation and implementation of a new financial planning and reporting platform, leading adoption across the finance team to streamline, modernize, and elevate the Company’s planning and management reporting capabilities.

Position Requirements

  • Proven track record as a finance leader with demonstrated success leading a high performing FP&A function.
  • Experience operating in a multi-site retail environment is strongly preferred.
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term vision with day-to-day execution and operational detail.
  • Exceptional influencing skills — able to drive alignment, shape decisions, and lead change at the executive level and across the broader organization.
  • Proven ability to create, implement and maintain best-in-class processes, systems and structure.
  • Strong change management capabilities with a history of transforming functions and building organizations from tactical to strategic.
  • Outstanding financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with financial planning systems or data visualization tools (e.g., Hyperion, Essbase, IBM Planning Analytics, Power BI, or similar).
  • Clear, articulate communication style; someone that can make complex things simple and is able to synthesize information quickly.
  • Able to thrive under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Demonstrates a growth mindset — actively seeks feedback, adapts to change, and fosters the same in others.
  • A strong team leader who acts as a player/manager.
  • Possesses the ability to recruit, retain and motivate a high-performance team, and hold them to account.

Position Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other quantitative discipline.
  • Minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
  • MBA strongly preferred.

Pay

$175,000 - $225,000 per year depending on experience, seniority, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law.

Benefits

  • Employee Discount
  • EAP and Sick Pay
  • Employee Discount, EAP, Sick Pay and Paid Time Off including paid Maternity and Parental Leave, Company Paid Holidays, 401(k) with Company Match, Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision), Healthcare and Dependent Care Spending Accounts, Healthcare Spending Account, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Transit, and Tuition Reimbursement.

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