Manager - Financial, Planning and Analysis (FP&A) in Bentonville, Arkansas at GELMART INDUSTRIES, INC.
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Job Description
Title: Financial, Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager
Reports to: VP, Finance
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas – Onsite
Employment: Full-time, Exempt
About the Role
Gelmart Industries is seeking a hands-on FP&A professional who reports to the VP of Finance and helps leadership make informed decisions about what comes next. You will build forecasts, explain changes in expected performance, and turn financial and operating data into practical recommendations. This role requires an independent thinker who can connect the numbers to what is happening in the business, challenge assumptions, and recommend a course of action.
The expectation is no surprises. You will identify and communicate material risks, emerging variances, and changes in the outlook early enough for leadership to act. When an issue arises, you will assess its financial impact, update the forecast, and recommend a response rather than waiting for month-end reporting.
Gelmart’s intimate apparel wholesale business serves major national retailers. Your analysis will connect customer and program sales with inventory, sourcing costs, freight, duties, tariffs, and retailer deductions to show where revenue and margin are heading.
You will partner with the Senior Accounting Manager, who owns the monthly close and prepares closed-period financials. You will review and publish the monthly financial package for the VP of Finance, then use those actuals and current business information to guide forecasts and decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the annual budget and recurring forecasts for sales, margin, and expenses. Partner with business leaders to update assumptions as conditions change.
- Build and maintain financial models that connect sales volume, pricing, product mix, inventory, and landed costs to expected results. Document assumptions and use the models for scenario analysis.
- Monitor sales, margin, costs, and business activity by customer and program between reporting cycles. Flag material changes early, assess their financial impact, and recommend actions.
- Analyze pricing, customer and program profitability, cost changes, and proposed investments to support commercial and operating decisions.
- Review and publish the monthly financial package for the VP of Finance, including the financial statements, period review, and actual-to-budget comparison prepared by the Senior Accounting Manager. Resolve any questions before publication.
- Add a forward-looking assessment explaining what the results mean for the forecast, emerging risks and opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Own weekly EOS scorecard updates for assigned financial measures. Validate the data, compare results with agreed targets, and bring exceptions, emerging risks, and recommended actions to team meetings.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring data preparation and improve reporting, using AI where it supports analysis. Validate outputs, protect confidential information, and maintain financial controls.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, or FP&A responsibility for a business unit.
- Experience in wholesale apparel or another business selling to major national retailers is preferred.
- Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to define assumptions, test calculations, and maintain reliable models as business conditions change.
- Ability to interpret a P&L and balance sheet and connect operating activity to financial results. Experience with inventory, landed costs, duties, tariffs, retailer deductions, or factoring is a plus.
- Experience analyzing budget and forecast variances and communicating clear recommendations to business leaders. Multi-entity or multi-currency reporting is helpful.
- Sound commercial judgment and the confidence to challenge assumptions, work independently, and raise concerns early.
- Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, with an interest in improving manual processes and using reporting, automation, and AI tools effectively.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, NetSuite, or a similar system is preferred.
About Rafar Group Companies
Rafar Group Companies is the parent organization behind Gelmart Industries, Rafar Brands, Fullstride, and Rafar Manufacturing. Our businesses span intimate apparel wholesale, brands, and manufacturing. This role supports Gelmart's wholesale business within Rafar's broader finance organization.
Our core values are Be Adaptable, Have High Standards, Play for Each Other, and Focus on the Outcome. We use EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, to set quarterly priorities, review performance, and resolve issues in regular team meetings. We look for people who take ownership, collaborate across teams, raise issues early, and follow through on commitments.
The Rafar Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.