Senior Financial Analyst FP&A

Catalyst Brands is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst in FP&A for its Lifestyle Brands division, supporting planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis across retail, e-commerce, and wholesale channels. This hybrid role in New York, NY partners with Finance, Accounting, and brand leaders to evaluate performance for Aéropostale, Lucky Brand, and Nautica.

Key Responsibilities

• Support annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning for retail, e-commerce, wholesale, and corporate operations.
• Own assigned business areas, forecasts, and recurring deliverables with limited supervision.
• Develop, maintain, and materially improve advanced, driver-based financial models in Excel using well-documented, reasonable assumptions to support business decision-making.
• Evaluate sales, gross margin, SG&A, and overall profitability versus budget, forecast, and prior periods.
• Investigate unexpected variances, determine root causes, and propose actionable solutions.
• Review GL accounts and transaction-level activity to validate monthly results and explain how accounting flows into financial statements.
• Collaborate with Accounting during month-end close to assess accrual needs and resolve discrepancies.
• Partner with non-finance teams to understand operating plans and analyze impacts of pricing strategy, product volume, category mix, and product costs on sales and gross margin performance by brand channel.
• Prepare and present clear financial results, forecasts, and strategic recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related quantitative field.
• 2+ years of relevant hands-on experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or a combination of corporate accounting and financial analysis.
• High proficiency with advanced Excel capabilities, including lookups, SUMIFS, index/match, pivot tables, and driver-based modeling, with demonstrated ability to troubleshoot formulas.
• A structured, rigorous approach to self-auditing, reconciling, and verifying work for accuracy and completeness prior to presenting to leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively with non-finance partners to resolve issues and improve forecast accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of retail (brick-and-mortar/e-commerce) and/or wholesale business models, including key financial drivers.
• Prior finance or accounting experience in apparel, footwear, retail, or CPG (consumer packaged goods).
• Experience using enterprise systems and reporting tools, including Oracle, OneStream, or MicroStrategy.

Technologies

Excel, Oracle, OneStream, MicroStrategy

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• Term life insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• Associate discount on Catalyst Brands merchandise
• Eight paid holidays during the calendar year for associates eligible for paid vacation (MTO)
• Additional compensation for store hourly associates scheduled to work on a designated holiday

Compensation & Location

Location: New York, NY (hybrid)

Pay range: USD 62,700 - 105,000 per year

Salary listing: USD $62,700.00 - USD $105,000.00 /Yr.