Senior Financial Planning Analyst

About Us:

WHSmith is a leading global travel retailer with over 1,700 stores across 30 countries worldwide. WHSmith North America, incorporating Marshall Retail Group (MRG) and InMotion, represents over half of the Company's international store estate, with a collection of attractive, successful specialty retail stores located in airports and resorts across North America.

Marshall Retail Group prides itself on creating unique experiences for customers by developing distinctive retail store concepts that feature and highlight the local culture, community, and lifestyle of the cities in which they are located. InMotion Entertainment Group is the largest airport-based electronics retailer in travel locations globally, with access and insight into the latest technologies for business and leisure travelers, InMotion offers lifestyle products and electronics that include a wide breadth of headphones, mobile power, Bluetooth speakers and travel accessories.

Job Summary:

The Senior Financial Planning Analyst will be responsible for a wide array of financial, strategic, and operational analyses supporting all aspects of the company.

• Will assist in the budgeting and forecasting processes

• Will partner with operations side of the business

• Will assist in the preparation of timely and accurate financial analysis and reporting to support company-wide decision making with analytical tools

• May provide analysis of store sales, traffic, and conversation data to determine the effectiveness of store selling efforts across the entire chain

• Support retail business development efforts at casinos and airports nationwide by developing new store projection models based on industry data compilation and benchmarking analysis

• Support store payroll optimization efforts by developing store level budgets and analyzing actual results to ensure staffing levels are adjusted as necessary to maximize performance. Support operations with analysis to fully leverage results made in storeforcesolutions.com

• May assist on the creation of various financial models to facilitate the payment of store incentive compensation and company bonuses

• Participate in Special Projects as required