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Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing.  We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We’re rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences.  Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

• Oversee ongoing efforts to provide one version of the truth by leveraging systems, improving processes, and helping to create sustainable master data and data governance practices across the company. 
• Work with accounting team to prepare, analyze and present monthly financial statements.  Recommend and implement changes in process to improve accuracy of reporting.  Review monthly with the business units and finance leadership to understand results, measure performance, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Provide periodic analytic review and forecast of the business to include impact of decisions and trends.  Assess risks and opportunities and forecast outlook.
• Coordinate budgeting and forecasting for the organization, including volume, revenue, gross margin, expenses and working capital requirements.  Provide reporting and analysis to assess the reasonableness of the plan. 
• Act as key advisor in financial matters including strategic planning, business decisions, and investment analysis.    
• Provide competitive analysis by comparing internal metrics against shoe industry and other comparable industries.  Use data to identify improvement opportunities within the business.
• Support and enhance policies, procedures and systems to improve the overall control and effectiveness of the organization
• Work with the business units, Finance and the Supply Chain to compile, communicate and drive improvements in working capital and other key performance metrics.
• Lead Project Teams to identify and implement process improvements, cost savings or quality improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) from four-year college or university preferably in accounting and finance.
• Masters in Business (MBA) and /or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) desirable.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, systems and practice. 
• Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting and general business acumen.  Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Eight to ten years of finance experience as a financial business unit partner, management accountant, financial/business analyst or similar leadership role within accounting or finance; or a combination of education and experience.
• Strong leadership and initiative to direct projects, explore alternatives and implement recommendations.
• Ability to work well under pressure, multi task and meet deadlines.
• Experience and aptitude to work with various computer applications and tools to extract, analyze and process information.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. 
• Team oriented player with the ability to work in a matrix organization.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)