The Growth Finance manager will be a leader in our growing Finance team. You will be the key finance business partner to the Growth organization comprised of Marketing, Brand, and Product teams.  You will provide financial insights, develop forecasts, and support strategic decision-making. You will lead key work streams that drive results for the organization including the performance review process, marketing investment analysis, and product innovation analysis.  You will be responsible for setting ambitious goals, analyzing performance to identify opportunities and risks, collaboratively building plans to achieve those goals, and leading decision-making to ensure to stay on track.  We need an influential finance leader to establish effective new processes and mold them for CookUnity’s needs. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze financial and business performance to identify opportunities and risks
• Set ambitious targets grounded in the key understanding of our performance capabilities and opportunities
• Collaborate with Growth leaders to develop tangible plans to achieve our goals and reflect those plans in our financial plan
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting tools to track operational and financial performance vs. plan
• Prepare and present weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews
• Develop and maintain financial forecasts, considering marketing efficiency and effectiveness, new product performance, competitive intelligence, and business objectives.
• Develop and evaluate business cases for optimizing marketing investments, new initiatives, and new products
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements 
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, company policies, and internal controls.
• Identify financial risks related to growth activities and develop mitigation strategies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance or operations, MBA preferred
• 7-10 years experience in finance roles of increasing responsibility. Ideally a combination of both large company experience and startup experience
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including creating complex financial models from the ground up
• Experience with FP&A modeling tools 
• Functional knowledge of accounting concepts and internal controls
• Strong communication, collaboration, and influence skills that can drive cross-functional initiatives involving employees from across the organization.
• Ability to problem-solve, strong time-management skills, ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail with big picture orientation- capable of interpreting findings, and communicating valuable, actionable insights.
• Unfazed by the challenges of developing systems and processes from scratch.