Senior Analyst Divisional FP&A
SENIOR ANALYST DIVISIONAL FP&A
The Vail Resorts Finance Team is committed to Building Leaders and Driving Value. We are creating a new fully centralized Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team in our corporate headquarters near Boulder, Colorado, to support a growing company of 37 resorts across Australia, Canada and the United States, 55,000+ employees, and a market capitalization of over $9 billion. We are transforming our FP&A organization to bring best-in-class insight generation, data-driven decision-making support and financial management to Vail Resorts – the ski industry’s global leader.
Our team will be driven by top-tier talent, state-of-the-art systems and tools, and strategic process management to identify and deliver against the Company’s biggest value opportunities. We are creating a sustainable high-performing team that will develop talent and prioritize career growth through accelerated opportunities and progression. This is an opportunity to join the FP&A team at a critical inflection point and shape how we do business into the future.
The Senior Analyst will partner with operational leaders to drive planning, forecasting and financial management, aligning our key resources with the achievement of our strategic goals – both long and short term. This leader will build critical relationships with senior leaders and will evaluate key trends across resorts and lines of business to influence our highest priority business decisions.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and maintain active partnerships with operational leadership.
- Develop finance & business presentations, and effectively summarize results, key risks/opportunities and decision points.
- Produce key FP&A deliverables for operating budget, capital budget, monthly forecasting, cost control, and P&L reviews.
- Execute value-added analysis and decision support for projects and initiatives.
- Produce (daily/weekly/monthly) business analyses to evaluate performance, aid in decision making, and provide insight into the business.
- Oversee labor/expense and provide actionable tools for resort teams to manage cost.
- Provide support and training for operational business leaders to build business acumen and accountability.
- Coordinate with Accounting to ensure timely and accurate monthly close.
- Drive process improvements aimed at creating scalability and efficiencies across FP&A.
- Approach and behavior—cultural characteristics:
- Strong curiosity in tackling complex business problems; dives deeply into the data, relentlessly pursues what it means, and how these insights drive decision making.
- Comfortable operating in financial systems and spreadsheets, and equally comfortable leveraging his/her capabilities to work independently.
- Strong learning agility. Enjoys and excels in environments where he/she must tackle and solve new and increasingly complex strategic business challenges and issues—incorporating the newest ideas, technologies, and approaches to business.
- A brave, ambitious, and passionate leader who is comfortable in his/her own skin while also demonstrating a high level of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Outstanding academic credentials; Bachelor’s degree required in Finance and/or Economics; CFA viewed favorably.
- 4+ years’ experience in finance or accounting with demonstrated success in financial modeling and analysis. The ideal candidate would have experience in financial planning and analysis functions, including developing automated reporting tools and dashboards.
- Experience executing core FP&A processes, including annual budgeting, long-term strategic planning, and enterprise communications.
- Thorough analytical skills with ability to synthesize information, develop insights and recommendations, and communicate effectively in presentations by developing the “story.”
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with strong initiative and ability to multi-task.
- Superb attention to detail balanced by ability to focus on the "big picture."
- Preferred skills:
- High intellect and ambition.
- Unquestioned ethics and integrity.
- Excellent listener, open to feedback, and communicates with candor and respect.
- Outstanding organizational, analytical and project management skills.
- Connects well with others and highly collaborative team approach to work.
- Excellent individual initiative and objective-oriented drive.
- Ability to handle difficult situations with a high-degree of diplomacy and composure.
- Expert in Excel, PowerPoint and industry standard financial systems (i.e., reporting and planning tools like PeopleSoft, Host Analytics, Tableau, etc.).
- Service industry experience a plus.