FP&A Manager, Merchandising/Category

Location: based in Atlanta Headquarters Office (near The Battery) - 4 days a week. Position Mission: The successful Manager will provide direct support to the finance team and work with field and HQ leaders on financial analysis to facilitate decision making. The Manager will also be responsible for enhancing the design and assist the budgeting and forecasting processes for the US APG. This includes working with all levels of management to ensure budgeting and forecasting is conducted via a uniform process. Key Responsibilities 1. Budgeting, Forecasting & Modeling Financial Modeling: Own bottom-up financial modeling, annual budgets, and rolling sales and inventory forecasts for specific product categories. Process Design: Ensure budgeting and forecasting are conducted via a uniform process across all corporate and field management levels. Technical Integration: Act as a subject-matter-expert on TM1/planning platforms while developing its capabilities to integrate with broader financial models. 2. Margin, Profit & Trend Analysis Performance Drivers: Identify and summarize key drivers of financial performance, volume, COGS, gross profit margins, and price-volume-mix (PVM) variance across product lines. Strategic Monitoring: Actively monitor expense levers, cost controls, and risk mitigation strategies required to maintain profitability and achieve budgeted targets. 3. Promotional, Pricing & Strategic Strategy Commercial Evaluation: Evaluate the financial effectiveness of retail promotions, markdown cadences, and regional pricing structures. Reporting Architecture: Assist in creating monthly/quarterly reporting packs, executing ad-hoc analysis, and providing peer review support to ensure data accuracy. 4. Cross-Functional Leadership & Team Development Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with merchant, supply chain, and business leaders to evaluate vendor terms, assortment planning, and new product initiatives. Team Growth: Help design future-state department structures and actively mentor and develop FP&A team members. Core Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field. Experience: 4 to 7+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), or retail merchandising analytics. Technical & Data Skills: Advanced proficiency in financial modeling (Excel) and enterprise planning systems (TM1). Hands-on expertise utilizing SQL to extract and manipulate large datasets. Proven experience leveraging data visualization tools ( Power BI or Tableau) to build automated, scalable reporting solutions. Demonstrated ability to evaluate and implement AI-driven tools or predictive modeling workflows to optimize forecasting and automate repetitive tasks. Not the right fit? Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by joining our Talent Community on jobs.genpt.com or create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest! GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.