Mgr Finance, Merch

About the role

As a Finance Manager supporting Nordstrom's merchandising organization, you'll partner directly with business teams - advising on strategic planning, investment decisions, and performance insights - to drive growth and maximize profitability.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to anticipate future business opportunities and challenges, particularly related to sales, margin, and inventory.
• Quantify impacts of decisions and risk / opportunity scenarios to inform executive decision-making.
• Participate in the development and execution of our strategic merchandising and financial plans; help integrate the Merch perspective more directly into Finance decision-making by being a front-line link between Finance and Merchandising.
• Build new capabilities on the team by identifying opportunities to support improved business results, by guiding formation of new processes, and by managing and mentoring junior team members on their development journeys.
• Define measurement approaches and build tools to monitor performance of our core business and strategic initiatives in order to inform future actions.
• Collaborate with business leaders and cross-functional partners to develop business cases and financial modeling to support investment prioritization.
• Effectively discuss potential benefits, costs, and tradeoffs with leaders.
• Support ad hoc analyses and special projects—both through individual contributions and management of junior team members.
• Generate insights from analysis as well as synthesize and clearly communicate findings to support executive-level decisions.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of relevant experience with scope and accountability progression, merchandising experience a plus.
• Proven experience in analysis, modeling, and reporting financial performance.
• Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint abilities, experience using AI tools to drive efficiencies and insights, experience with Looker and SQL a plus.
• Storytelling experience with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage priorities and timelines.
• Attention to detail, data integrity and accuracy.
• Retail industry experience a plus.

Qualifications

• Self-starter with sharp attention to detail, able to influence leaders and deliver results in a fast-moving retail environment.
• Balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution as part of a close-knit, collaborative team.

Benefits

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement
• Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

For Los Angeles or San Francisco applicants: Nordstrom is required to inform you that we conduct background checks after conditional offer and consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with legal requirements per Los Angeles, Cal. Muni. Code 189.04 and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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