Overview

Pep Boys is driven by its customer promise, "We go further to help you go farther." Founded 100 years ago by military veterans, generations of drivers have counted on Pep Boys ASE-certified Pros to service their vehicles. With a national network of over 900 locations in 35 states and Puerto Rico, and 20+ distribution centers, Pep Boys employs over 8,000 people. Over 7 million vehicles pass through Pep Boys bays each year, and our commitment to being the ONE our communities count on is demonstrated through our exceptional customer experience and support of the critical technical training initiatives needed to close America's skills gap. For more information, visit .

Position Summary

This position will be the finance business partner to the SVP - Field Operations and the VP - Service Operations Strategy. This role will own all core financial aspects of service operations, including, but not limited to: budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and driving various forms of labor productivity across the Company's 900+ locations and field support. While the stores technically reflect a "Service Business," each location has aspects of a manufacturing shop floor:

• Ensure Direct and indirect materials on hand;
• Utilize Materials to assemble/consolidate into product;
• Perform the service or installation; and
• Quality test, deliver vehicle to customer, invoice.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and accompanying analysis for Operations.
• In-depth analysis of Labor and Overhead to drive cost and cycle productivity across all stores.
• Lead segmentation of poor performing stores, actions plans and best practices tracking and adoption.
• Development and support of most critical financial and operational KPIs.
• Co-lead simplification of store pay plans, targeting more direct line of sight on pay for performance (productivity).
• Co-lead, with Human Resources, minimum wage/rate increases, especially state mandated.
• Co-lead, with Operations leader, proper field structure and critical KPIs to contribute to store performance.
• Lead store overhead initiative toward lower, more variable model.
• Lead frequent presentations with senior executives and Board of Directors.
• Jointly responsible, with SVP - Field Operations, for achieving core financial metrics.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, operations management or equivalent training required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in manufacturing finance roles, or finance roles with multi-site, similar focus.
• Strong problem-solving skills, organizational and project management skills.
• Strong analytical and statistical skills.
• Strong people leader - ability to lead cross-functionally.
• Strong communication skills both verbally and in writing independently.
• Strong ability to drive change in a status quo environment.
• Customer service oriented, recognizing the importance of high-quality customer service.
• Exercises excellent professional judgment.
• Ability to multitask and manage large, complex projects in parallel.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing work accordingly.
• Adaptable to change in the organizational environment.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Repetitive movement of hands and fingers, typing or writing.
• Regular standing and walking.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Frequent travel.
• Talk and hear.
• Ability to work under tight time constraints, handle sensitive date and multi-task so that deadlines can be met.
• High organized and able to prioritize and manage time efficiently with the ability to handle stress in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.

The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The characteristics described above are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Pep Boys is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.