at Staples in Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.
Quill is a valuable part of the Staples family of brands. Since 1956, Quill has held its position as a leader in office supplies.
Acquired by Staples in 1998, Quill delivers the essential services, solutions, and award-winning customer support to help our customers – and our people – thrive. When you partner with Quill, as a customer or as an associate, every workday is more rewarding.
From paper, ink & toner, to technology and custom print, we deliver the right products at the right value, plus an unmatched assortment of over 900 instant rewards available with every order.
What you’ll be doing:
+ Manage Quill’s financial monthly close process; ensure conformity with GAAP as well as internal guidelines and procedures.
+ Align with internal (SPLS) Sr. Managers and Directors in Accounting on close process.
+ Work with Finance and Merchandising business partners to invoice vendors for promotions and follows up with vendors where required.
+ Reconcile the sales sub ledger to Oracle Financials and explains discrepancies.
+ Own month-end and year-end close process including Sarbanes Oxley Controls
+ Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures.
+ Establish strong working relationships with internal, key functional area leaders, helping them navigate the financial details of their business.
+ Work effectively with finance colleagues to ensure timely, efficient, and accurate deliverables.
+ Support the monthly/weekly/budget sales/demand models working closely with FP&A team.
+ Develop new forecasting models where necessary.
+ Own all margin related variance analysis, forecasting and margin models as it pertains to Vendor Funded Coupons (VFC), Volume Rebates (VR) and other margins and recommends actions to course correct.
+ Own booking to net sales bridge with command and control over R&A, cancellations, etc
+ Support our VP of Marketing, VP of SDS (technology) capex/opex and all other SG&A leaders to maintain the general ledger and drive a formal forecast (including budget – Bottom-up build)
+ Prepare and present performance reporting for SG&A (i.e., Marketing costs), including variance drivers of performance and forecasts by working with each cost center owner.
+ Maintain/Enhances daily sale, margin, AOV and other operational metrics reporting for the business.
What you bring to the table:
+ Strong interpersonal skills for interacting w
