Little Sleepies Hiring for Financial Planning & Analysis Manager Job at Hollywood, CA Full Time

ABOUT US

Meet your family’s favorite brand. Unbelievable softness. Adorable prints. Effortless functionality. At Little Sleepies, we make buttery soft Lunaluxe™ bamboo sleepwear, daywear & home essentials that your whole family will love. Created by a mom, our products are thoughtfully designed for long-lasting comfort and maximum cuteness!

LOCATION

This is a fully remote position based in the United States only.

SPONSORSHIP

This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

SUMMARY

In this role, you will be responsible for all facets of corporate and financial planning and analysis. You’ll gain invaluable experience and visibility into Little Sleepies’ business and operation while creating impact within a growing finance department. This position is a crucial member of the growing finance and accounting team. You will collaborate across the organization to help analyze results and play an integral role in driving profitable growth. This new internal role requires working with all levels and data within the company to deliver timely and accurate reporting and analysis of various financial, customer and unit metrics. You will support the business through financial modeling, fact-based analyses, customer analysis and the interpretation of key business results and financial trends. The position requires a highly motivated self-starter who is extremely analytical and has excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with multiple teams within the company. You will be deeply involved in strategic and operational initiatives and make recommendations for short- and long-term decisions. You will contribute meaningfully to business planning and forecasting including developing annual operating budgets, dynamic forecasting, and multi-year plans to evolve our financial and business planning processes to support an increasing complex ecosystem. You will also support ad hoc projects with opportunities for broad cross-functional interactions.

Strong leadership skills and the ability to work independently, with a remote and in person team and external partners, are a must!

This role includes translating data and insights into executive level storytelling and influencing. Finally, you’ll develop process improvements using strategic problem-solving skills.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys problem solving and business partnering with different stakeholders. To be successful in this role you need to be highly analytical and commercially savvy. This role reports to the Vice President of Finance.

THE OPPORTUNITY

• Key contributor providing leadership with clear insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities.
• Own the forecast, budget and long-range planning cycles including enhancing Little Sleepies’ models and coordination with stakeholders on assumptions and inputs.
• Lead FP&A activities including reporting, budgeting, forecasting, decision support to provide output and recommendations to help improve business operations.
• Work directly with cross functional teams on gathering and validating information to support FP&A activities and provide critical thinking to requests.
• Gather, consolidate, and analyze operating and financial results for all financial statements including prepared internal and external reporting deliverables and analyzing and explaining trends and drivers, including but not limited to those relative to previously prepared budgets and forecasts.
• Serve as a key liaison and partner to cross functional teams including finance, design, HR, operations, merchandising, sourcing, and other teams to drive scalable analyses and insights.
• Participate in monthly closing and analysis for the company and proactively challenge costs and allocations of costs.
• Assist with ad hoc strategic and operational projects as required.
• Develop and run complex reports, models and approaches using analysis and problem solving skills providing recommendations to support projects based on requirements where there may be incomplete or conflicting data. Expertise in Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or equivalent is required.
• Analyze financial information to ensure that information is accurate, that provisions are financially sound and correctly allocated, providing detailed explanations on variances that have occurred against budget and where errors are found, provide information and analysis.
• Investigate data quality issues and utilize data warehouse and analysis tools to help to resolve such issues and provide analysis and insights.
• Understand and analyze components and processes involved in each P&L line item; deep understanding of transactional details is often required, and full comprehension of the P&L is expected.
• Full budget management experience across all three financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow).
• Participate in preparation of board meeting presentations, with the ability to identify key metrics to report on and analytics to assist in communication of business results.
• Draft strategic pricing plans and processes to improve existing results and assess opportunities. Manage standardized price lists and pricing exceptions.
• Develop systems and reports to analyze profitability at the customer and product category level.
• Analyze current trend in key performance indicators and causes of unexpected variances.
• Propose improvements to finance activities, processes, and procedures.

YOUR BACKGROUND

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Statistics, Accounting, or related field
• 5-7 years of finance, accounting, financial planning and analysis, or related experience.
• Experience with financial statements analysis and a knowledge of corporate finance concepts. Advanced Excel skills with proficiency in managing large data sets, building, and maintaining complex models.
• Outstanding communication and relationship building with a team focus.
• Strong analytical aptitude and critical thinking skills.
• Detail oriented and experience multi-tasking and shifting priorities quickly under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams end-to-end.
• Comfortable with building models independently.
• Experience with Google and Microsoft Suite and collaboration tools like Slack and Asana.
• Experience with one or more data visualization/analysis tools (Tableau, Looker, etc.) required. Experience with Power BI, using the DAX and M coding languages, a plus.
• Experience with data warehouse structure, SQL, and ETL tools a plus.
• Hyper-organized, detail-oriented, excellent communicator.
• Experience with Shopify is a plus.

ABOUT YOU

• You’ll bring your unique point of view, experience, and passion for the work to your team and internal clients.
• You like a challenge while maintaining a healthy balance with life outside of work.
• You are genuinely curious and a person of integrity and ethics in everything you do.
• You enjoy driving outstanding financial results by enabling and accelerating strategic execution.
• You nurture partnership with key stakeholders who value your credibility thanks to the quality and reliability of your insights.
• You’ll bring your skills for analytical rigor, creative problem solving and sound decision making.
• You’ll be an active contributor to cross-functional teams.
• You will rise to the challenge of the dynamic retail industry bringing innovative solutions that have a direct impact on financial and operational direction setting, merchandising, capital investments, and how to best use our resources.
• You balance openness and warmth with a sense of urgency and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• People enjoy working with you because you find opportunities to win together.
• You operate by testing, learning, and iterating.
• Ownership and accountability are part of who you are; these are how we all make sure we’re focused on the highest-leverage opportunities and are driving effective change.
• You love working in a fast-paced, start-up environment and rolling up your sleeves to get things done.
• You’re efficient and focused on getting things done well and on schedule.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid vacation, sick, and personal days.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid holidays.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Home office stipend.
• Internet stipend.
• Company discount.
• Team building activities.
• Company-issued computer.

Little Sleepies is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.