EMEA Finance Manager, Golf & Team Sports

At Wilson, we are here to empower every human to live like an athlete. Passion. Creativity. Integrity. Teamwork. Ambition. Innovation. These are the qualities that have made Wilson Sporting Goods Co. the number one sports equipment brand in the world. We come together to win, grow, and celebrate. We all play for Team Wilson. We all have a role to play within our organization and are working towards the same goal.

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We believe that being an athlete isn’t something you do, it’s who you are. It’s a universal code of conduct, a way of seeing the world and how you show up every day. We seek out diverse voices and welcome all perspectives. Our team is composed of individuals with unique backgrounds, points of view and experiences. These perspectives create a rich and diverse culture in which we learn from one another through empathy and inclusion.

Evolving the sports world and being the best partner for players, athletes, and our community is no small task. We are continually looking to add enthusiastic, ambitious, team-first individuals who desire to make a difference —and who love to help others win. Together, we will create a better world through sport. Join us.

We are currently seeking a Finance Manager, Golf & Team sports to join our Finance Team and partner with our business units in the areas of long-term strategy and short-term execution of the business. This role would be aligning the overall strategy to the financial targets and include budgeting, forecasting, expense management, reporting, and analysis. This role will be responsible for the customer P&L of the Golf & Team sports Business Units and will work directly with the Business Unit EMEA Leadership and Director of EMEA Finance (FP&A).

This role will be focused on EMEA profitability and building out full P&L analysis at the customer/account level and will be responsible for implementing the strategies into financial plans and measuring results against targets and KPIs. Responsible for managing, training and developing the Golf &Team sports finance team, consisting currently of one Business Analyst.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Validate current year sales and margin forecasts by channel, product, and country; align forecasts with demand plans; and confirm alignment with strategic glide paths
• Partner with EMEA leadership in developing strategic glide paths
• Develop trackable KPIs that support both sales and investment plans for the strategic glide paths
• Support the development of Wilson’s retail footprint providing financial insight to both the long-term strategy and short-term execution
• Develop detailed OpEx strategies and plans to continue to drive EBIT improvement for the Golf & Team sports Business Units
• Work with the Territory Manager teams to build detailed plans for sales, customer deductions (gross-to-net), and SG&A that support the current year and long-term strategy.
• Partner with leadership to optimize earnings through ongoing assessments of opportunities from gross-to-net-revenue and Key/Strategic Accounts SG&A.
• Support changes in KA/SA pricing strategy; track and report on progress.
• Develop business case template for customer opportunities – inclusive of projected revenue, margin, and investments to support growth at the customer level.

• Partner with Business Units in sales and margin budgeting, creating alignment across channel, product category, and territory region.
• Partner with the head of Softgoods Ecom EMEA in developing trackable KPIs that drive the Ecommerce sales forecast, and review OpEx investments driving Ecommerce sales.
• Responsible for building annual spending budgets, confirming budgets support overall Business Unit strategic initiatives.
• Partner with sales, commercial, and supply/demand functions in the monthly/quarterly reforecasting process.
• Partner with key business partners in order to support the budgeting for Retail locations with regards to Sales, PGP and Opex planning.
• Responsible for building annual spending budgets as well as monthly/quarterly reforecasts for EMEA KA/SA, confirming budgets support overall company strategic…