Fp&a Manager

Join a global leader in sporting goods and outdoor performance. Amer Sports is home to iconic brands like Wilson, Salomon and Arc’teryx, known for their innovation, quality, and connection to world-class athletes and passionate lifestyle consumers. With brand headquarters in Chicago (Wilson), Annecy (Salomon), and Vancouver (Arc’teryx), our ANZ team operates from a vibrant facility in Moorabbin, Melbourne. We’re a dynamic group of professionals committed to delivering exceptional consumer experiences—and we’re growing!

Due to business growth, we’re recruiting for a commercially driven Senior FP&A Manager to lead financial planning and analysis across our ANZ operations. Reporting to the Finance Director, this pivotal leadership role will define the FP&A ways of working for ANZ and act as a critical bridge between Accounting and FP&A, Enabling Functions and Brand Business Partners, and the country and regional FP&A teams.

You’ll play a key role in driving financial performance, delivering strategic insights, and building a high-performing finance function that enables growth, profitability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage planning cycle: deliverables and timeline, define methodology fit for ANZ & Brand’s way of working
• Deliver actionable insights to the Supply Chain team to drive operational efficiencies
• Own the monthly variance analysis process (Actuals vs Forecast/Budget/Prior Year) predominantly overseeing all Portfolio/ Shared costs
• Support journal preparation at month end, including I3PL calculations, Outbound Freight analysis and reclass journals
• Lead the end‑to‑end budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring accurate flow through into the Financial Planning system (Onestream)
• Manage long‑range strategic planning in partnership with regional and global teams.
• Partner with Brand Teams, Sales, IT, Supply Chain, and Customer Service to provide meaningful financial insights and cost analysis.
• Monitor performance KPIs, identify trends, and guide corrective action plans.
• Support strong financial governance and adherence to internal controls, including SOX compliance.
• Collaborate with the Internal Control Manager and Accounting Team to ensure timely, accurate period-end close and compliance requirements.
• Be the business partner of Enabling function, key subjects would be People Cost, Logistics Cost, IT Cost plan, track and analysis, support the scenario analysis and decision making.
• Provide financial leadership on local, regional, and global strategic initiatives
• Drive financial planning and performance analysis to support cost control, efficiency, and strategic initiatives across functions.