Senior Manager, IT – Financial Planning Systems

About Us

Centric Brands is a leading lifestyle brand collective that designs, sources, markets and sells high quality products in multiple segments, including women’s, men’s and kid’s apparel, accessories, entertainment and beauty. Centric Brands is focused on our customers and our brands that will drive the company’s future growth. We are defined by innovation as we seize new opportunities and thrive in an environment informed by creativity and thinking that is both analytical and outside the box.

Centric Brands reflects a team built on respect, for others and for the hard work it takes to achieve our goals and build our bright future together.

The Senior Manager, IT Applications – Financial Planning Systems, serves as the primary IT leader for Centric Brands' Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) technology ecosystem. This individual partners closely with Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and Executive leadership to own the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation platforms.

The ideal candidate brings a rare combination of deep technical platform expertise in modern EPM/FP&A solutions (e.g., Oracle EPM Cloud, Anaplan, or One Stream) and a strong understanding of finance processes including planning cycles, financial consolidation, driver-based modeling, and management reporting. This role will be critical in driving the modernization of Centric Brands' financial planning capabilities and will report to the Sr.

Director, Business Applications.

This role will follow a hybrid work schedule which requires on-site presence Monday-Thursday with Friday being a remote/work from home day. This schedule is subject to change based on business needs.

• Serve as the IT application owner for all EPM/FP&A planning systems, owning the platform roadmap, governance model, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
• Lead end-to-end implementation and configuration of modern EPM/FP&A solutions (Oracle EPM Cloud, Anaplan, One Stream, or equivalent), from requirements gathering through go-live and hypercare.
• Partner with Finance and FP&A leadership to translate business planning requirements into scalable, well-architected technical solutions.
• Manage vendor relationships with EPM platform providers, system integrators, and implementation partners.
• Drive platform consolidation, rationalization, and migration strategies where applicable, including transitions from legacy tools such as SAP BPC.

• Own full project lifecycle delivery for EPM system implementations and enhancements — scope, budget, timeline, risk management, and quality.
• Lead technical design sessions and solution architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise data standards and integration requirements.
• Drive integrations between EPM/FP&A platforms and upstream/downstream systems including SAP ERP/S4
  
  HANA, data warehouses, and reporting tools.
• Establish and enforce testing protocols (UAT, regression, performance) and change management processes for all platform releases.
• Remove obstacles and proactively manage risks to ensure delivery on time, on budget, and with high quality.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Finance and FP&A teams, bridging the gap between business process requirements and technology capabilities.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, process mapping sessions, and design reviews with business stakeholders at all levels, including CFO and VP‑level Finance leaders.
• Set clear delivery expectations with business partners, proactively communicate…