Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst, North America Reporting

Ralph Lauren Corporation is seeking an ambitious and highly analytical person to join the Ralph Lauren North America FP&A team. The individual will work together with key finance and business partners to support regional North America reporting & analytics, as well as assist in providing financial support to the North America Marketing teams. Assist with the technical execution of reporting, consolidation, and detailed data scrubbing and analytics activities for the North America Region. Track and analyze Marketing spend, while supporting Marketing teams with Finance support, metrics, and ROI analysis.

The ideal candidate will be a proactive and strategic financial professional with the ability to multi-task with a high degree of analytical proficiency and integrity. This position requires good foundational knowledge and experience in finance/accounting and a firm understanding of both financial and retail concepts with ability to work with wide range of business partners as their finance partner and resource.

Regional Reporting & Consolidation

• P&L Management: Generate and maintain the standard North America reporting suite for LRP/Plan, Forecast, and Period-End Close, including P&L models, KPI dashboards, Inventory rollforwards, and other ad-hoc reporting.

• Data Integrity: Lead the technical execution of detailed data scrubbing and analytics to ensure accuracy across all regional reports.

• Reporting Optimization: Roll forward monthly reports and identify opportunities to streamline data retrieves and Excel-based workflows.

Marketing Finance & Analytics

• Marketing Spend Tracking: Partner with Marketing teams to track actual spend, analyze invoices, and validate media, sports, and regional marketing investments.

• Close Management: Assist with month/quarter-end close by identifying expense reclasses and working with teams to secure accrual support and journal entries.

Strategic Support & Partnerships

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Create partnerships with channel FP&A teams to collect the insights needed to add context to regional reports.

• Senior Leadership Deliverables: Assist in the creation of monthly and quarterly decks, demonstrating a growing ability to communicate complex data to senior stakeholders.

• Expense & T&E Oversight: Assist in developing and executing organization-wide T&E reporting, identifying meaningful variance drivers against Forecast and Plan.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and/or Accounting

• 1-3 years of Finance, FP&A and/or Accounting experience in a multinational or retail company preferred

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (data consolidation, VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables) and PowerPoint proficiency are essential.

• Professional experience with SAP and Hyperion/Essbase and Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau or Power BI) to support senior leadership dashboards is preferred.

• Confident in acting as a finance resource for non-finance partners (Marketing, Media teams)

• Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills are required

• A naturally curious professional who is eager to learn the Ralph Lauren business model and can quickly connect small variables to larger regional strategies.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, including deadline-sensitive priorities A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail; self-motivated with the ability to follow through on complex tasks.

• Team player that is eager to chip in and assist the broader team when needed, possessing a strong work ethic