Role: Senior Manager, Long Range Financial Planning
Team: Financial Planning & Analysis
Scope: Individual Contributor, P5
Years of Experience: 10+ years
Location: Ventura, CA
Role Summary
The Senior Manager, Long Range Financial Planning (LRFP) is a critical leadership role within the Financial Planning & Analysis team, responsible for owning and evolving the enterprise long‑range financial planning framework in support of strategic decision‑making by executive leadership.
This role provides end‑to‑end ownership of long‑range financial modeling, scenario evaluation, and strategic trade‑off framing, translating cross‑functional strategies into integrated, actionable financial plans. The Senior Manager operates with a high degree of autonomy, exercises independent judgment under ambiguity, and delivers insights that shape enterprise‑level priorities, capital allocation, and long‑term value creation.
What You’ll Do
Strategy & Solutions
- Own, design, and continuously evolve the company’s long‑range financial planning process, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, leadership priorities, and external context.
- Lead the facilitation of the strategic and long‑range planning process, coordinating senior cross‑functional partners to articulate strategies and translate them into integrated long‑range financial plans (e.g., Sales, Margin, Inventory, Marketing, Infrastructure, People, Systems, Fulfillment).
- Provide thought leadership in the development of long‑range planning methodologies, assumptions frameworks, and decision models that enable executives to evaluate trade‑offs, risks, and opportunities over a multi‑year horizon.
- Advance, standardize, and systematize long‑range financial models and templates, improving scalability, transparency, and usability, with a focus on transitioning toward sustainable, systemic planning solutions.
- Establish repeatable decision frameworks that enable scenario analysis, sensitivity testing, and executive‑ready recommendations tied to key business drivers.
Financial Modeling & Analysis
- Lead the development of integrated, enterprise‑level financial models, including consolidated Sales, Margin, SG&A, and Capital projections across multiple planning horizons.
- Prepare and own consolidated long‑range Income Statement, and Capital plans, ensuring consistency of assumptions, logical integrity, and clear articulation of risks and trade‑offs.
- Translate financial plans across currencies, geographies, and planning views (USD vs. local currency; merchandise vs. financial plans), enabling leadership to understand mix, growth, and margin implications.
- Design and evaluate complex scenarios to support strategic initiatives, capital investments, operating model changes, and long‑term growth strategies.
- Partner with FP&A and Finance leaders to ensure alignment between long‑range planning, annual budgeting, and rolling forecast processes, strengthening forecast quality and strategic coherence.
Cross‑Functional Leadership & Business Partnership
- Serve as a trusted strategic finance partner to senior leaders across the organization, influencing decisions through clear framing of options, risks, and financial implications.
- Facilitate senior‑level working sessions with cross‑functional partners to capture business strategies, challenge assumptions, and align on long‑term financial implications.
- Lead transformation modeling of the cost structure to support SG&A optimization, productivity initiatives, and external benchmarking participation.
- Collaborate on financial modeling related to social and environmental strategies, ensuring alignment with the company’s mission and long‑term objectives.
- Provide financial leadership on major strategic initiatives, including organic growth strategies, business partnerships, major capital investments, operational efficiency programs, and M&A‑related analyses as needed.
Communication & Executive Storytelling
- Develop and deliver executive‑ready presentations that synthesize complex financial analyses into clear insights, recommendations, and decision narratives for senior management.
- Shape enterprise‑level decision conversations by framing “so what / now what” implications, highlighting trade‑offs, and recommending paths forward grounded in data and strategic context.
- Act as a recognized subject‑matter expert in long‑range planning, scenario modeling, and strategic financial analysis across the Finance organization.
Leadership, Influence & Ways of Working
- Operate with wide latitude in determining objectives, approaches, and methodologies for complex and ambiguous assignments.
- Mentor and coach FP&A team members, raising overall analytical rigor, planning discipline, and strategic thinking across the function.
- Influence outcomes through expertise, persuasion, and credibility, rather than formal authority, while partnering effectively across diverse stakeholders.
- Exhibit flexibility and leadership in taking on new responsibilities and high‑impact ad‑hoc initiatives as business needs evolve.
Who You Are
- Comfortable operating in high ambiguity, exercising sound judgment and making decisions without complete information.
- Recognized for strategic thinking, conceptual problem‑solving, and the ability to connect financial insights to enterprise outcomes.
- Highly effective communicator, able to influence senior leaders through clear, compelling narratives grounded in data.
- Demonstrates strong organizational agility, collaborating across functions to align strategies and deliver results.
- Action‑oriented, accountable, and committed to high standards of quality, integrity, and follow‑through.
Experience You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field or equivalent experience. MBA Preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Corporate Finance, or related strategic finance roles.
- Deep expertise in long-range financial modeling, strategic planning, and scenario analysis, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights that inform executive and enterprise-level decision making.
- Experience supporting global, retail, consumer products or multi‑channel organizations preferred, with a strong understanding of financial analysis across international markets, integrated commercial and operational drivers, and USD/local currency perspectives.
- Demonstrated executive presence and influence, with a proven ability to build collaborative and trusted partnerships and advise senior leaders through credible, data‑driven recommendations and decision support.
- Strong project management and change leadership capabilities, including leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives, managing competing priorities, and adapting to evolving business needs and timelines.
- Advanced proficiency in financial modeling tools, planning systems, and analytics platforms, with a track record of improving processes, scalability, and business insight delivery.
Hiring Range: $160,000-$180,000 USD Annual
At Patagonia, pay ranges are assigned to a job based on the location specific market median of similar jobs according to 3rd party salary benchmark surveys. Individual pay within that range can vary for several reasons including skills/capabilities, experience, and available budget. Note the full pay range for this role ranges from $138,640-$207,960 USD Annual. The Hiring Range reflects where in the range we intend to hire for this role.
Benefits
Patagonia offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, retirement and leave of absence plans. Benefit plans may vary slightly depending on the nature of your employment.
Workplace Location Overview
This position is Hybrid, with a standard schedule of Tuesday - Thursday on-site and remote work on other days. Occasional additional office visits may be required for team events or critical meetings.
Employee Conduct
It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive, inclusive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers and vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.
