Finance Manager

Job Description:
We are a rapidly growing online retail company with annual sales of $10+ million. We are seeking a highly motivated Finance Manager to join our team and help us achieve our profitability target. The Finance Manager will be responsible for performing business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and tracking of KPIs, generating profitability analyses, business cases, and ad-hoc analyses on merchants, consumers, segments, products or competitors, being a key stakeholder in driving optimization and customization of specific policies, reviewing monthly follow-up of P&L, providing comments and insights, and working closely with the leadership team to support pricing and analytical workstreams.

Responsibilities:
* Conduct detailed analysis of our business operations, financials, and market trends to inform business planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
* Generate profitability analyses, business cases, and ad-hoc analyses to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
* Responsible for overseeing and analyzing cost expenditures and purchases. Duties include, but is not limited to, (1) developing and maintaining cost standards for materials and labor, (2) designing and implementing cost accounting systems, (3) analyzing production costs and recommending changes, and (4) overseeing annual physical inventory.
* Review monthly follow-up of team/domain P&L, providing comments and insights.
* Work closely with the leadership team to support pricing and analytical workstreams.
* Create and run financial models to forecast sales, revenue, and profitability.
* Determine the appropriate pricing strategy to maintain our target margin and increase profitability.
* Analyze packaging, logistics, and inventory to identify cost-saving opportunities and improve efficiency.
* Model scenarios to identify the best strategy for achieving our profitability target.
* Collaborate with other teams in the company to gather data and insights to inform business decisions.
* Present findings and recommendations to the leadership team in a clear and concise manner
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Requirements:
* Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics or related field.
* 3-5 years of experience in financial analysis, preferably in e-commerce or retail industry with operational experience in a quantitative or analytical role
* Experience with business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and tracking of KPIs.
* Experience with financial modeling, forecasting, and data analysis.
* Positive solution oriented mindset and stakeholder management skills
* Strong analytical skills set: the ability to identify and isolate trends and connect them to customer behavioral patterns, and business impacts
* Strong Excel/Google Sheets experience is a requirement.
* Ability to effectively communicate actionable data-driven insights to all audiences
* Ability to work independently and collaboratively with other teams.

If you’re passionate about financial analysis and business planning, and want to be part of a dynamic team that is rapidly growing, please submit your resume and cover letter.

Part Time – Approximately 30 hours per week
Hours: Pacific Coast time / Los Angeles time zone