Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst, Lifestyle

Position Overview

Ralph Lauren Corporation is seeking an ambitious and highly analytical person to join the Ralph Lauren Corporate FP&A team. The individual will work together with key finance and business partners to support reporting & analytics for the Lifestyle business. Assist with the technical execution of reporting, consolidation, and detailed data scrubbing and analytics activities for the Lifestyle business. The ideal candidate will be a proactive and strategic financial professional with the ability to multi-task with a high degree of analytical proficiency and integrity.

This position requires good foundational knowledge and experience in finance/accounting and a firm understanding of both financial and retail concepts with ability to work with wide range of business partners as their finance partner and resource.

• Regional Reporting & Consolidation – P&A Management:
  Generate and maintain the standard Lifestyle reporting suite for LRP/Plan, Forecast, and Period-End Close, including P&A models, KPI dashboards, and other ad-hoc reporting.
• Data Integrity:
  Lead the technical execution of detailed data scrubbing and analytics to ensure accuracy across all regional reports.
• Reporting Optimization:
  Roll forward monthly reports and identify opportunities to streamline data retrieves and Excel-based workflows.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Create partnerships with Lifestyle teams to collect the insights needed to add context to reports.
• Senior Leadership Deliverables:
  Assist in the creation of monthly and quarterly decks, demonstrating a growing ability to communicate complex data to senior stakeholders.
• Expense & T&E Oversight:
  Assist in developing and executing organization-wide T&E reporting, identifying meaningful variance drivers against Forecast and Plan.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance and/or Accounting.
• 1-3 years of Finance, FP&A and/or Accounting experience in a multinational or retail company preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (data consolidation, VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables) and PowerPoint proficiency are essential.
• Professional experience with SAP and Hyperion/Essbase and familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau or Power BI) to support senior leadership dashboards is preferred.
• Confident in acting as a finance resource for non-finance partners (Marketing, Media teams).
• Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills are required.
• A naturally curious professional who is eager to learn the Ralph Lauren business model and can quickly connect small variables to larger regional strategies.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, including deadline-sensitive priorities; a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail; self-motivated with the ability to follow through on complex tasks.
• Team player that is eager to chip in and assist the broader team when needed, possessing a strong work ethic.