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Hello potential future Oatly employee. It’s us, the original oatmilk company that started in Sweden back 25 or so years ago and has since expanded to the U.S. where we’ve continued growing at a rate such that we need more brilliant minds to come work with us to keep the momentum going and the oatmilk flowing.
Sustainability, health, and transparency are the core values that guide everything we do.
Basically, we exist to make it easy for people to eat better and live healthier lives without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources in the process. If any of this resonates with you, then maybe you’d like to work for Oatly, too. Now onto the formal stuff.
We are looking for a Director of Finance – Innovation, to support our Product Development and Emergent Food team in planning, measuring, and optimizing key investment decisions across the portfolio. The ideal candidate will possess a high degree of curiosity and learning agility, and excellent financial planning & project organizational skills.
If this is you, you will drive the portfolio target-setting, monthly financial forecasting & budgeting processes within Innovation. In addition to these core responsibilities, you will also lead Innovation Revenue, track key efficiency metrics, support Innovation demand plans, and deliver valuable insights and financial reporting to key stakeholders.
In Innovation Finance we business partner with a dynamic group of creators, at the forefront of consumer trends and opportunities in the non-dairy space. The role of Innovation Finance is to influence positive financial outcomes from innovation and help set up multi-year financial business plans. We help to shape the innovation pipeline, support decisions on individual product developments, and play an important role in Oatly’s process for bringing innovations to Market.
Top Accountabilities
This person will be critical in setting-up short-term and long-term financial insight and objectives, by leveraging a deep understanding of the current business performance and future operating and strategic model. They will be a key contributor to the implementation of planning and measurement solutions that will help improve our forecasting accuracy, accountability, and transparency. In addition, this position is expected to play a key role in leading cross-functional initiatives to capitalize on areas of growth and profit improvement opportunities and is expected to work collaboratively across the organization.
Here are the things we want to hire you to do:
Participate in company planning, forecasting, and reporting processes for the Product Development & Innovation team
Deliver and manage complete (multi-year) business cases as well as financial insights and risk identification for all products within the Emergent Foods team
Support the decision-making process through scenario-building, and critical review of P&L inputs received from various members of the Emergent Food team (including Commercial, Product Development, Procurement, and Co-manufacturing)
Develop tools and models to drive efficiency in the process
Find opportunities to strengthen innovation profitability or reduce financial risk in Innovations
Build insights about innovation performance and outcomes
Find opportunities to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness of innovation finance activities
Create financial models & provide ad-hoc financial analysis
Cultivate strong cross-functional relationships with business partners (Sales, Marketing, Corporate, and Supply Chain)
Collaborate with the Innovation team on profitability at each stage of SKU introduction both existing SKU extensions and new products
Be able to lead and manage through ambiguity, particularly important as we harmonize policies and practices across the organization
Here are the things we think you need:
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, MBA preferable
8-10 years of financial management experience, ideally in the consumer products industry
2+ years working In Innovation finance
Ability to understand complex business drivers, produce high-quality analytics and communicate results effectively
Have a deep understanding of the workings of the CPG industry including but not limited to; multiple channels & retailer landscape, distributors & brokers, trade spend, etc.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
Highest standards of accuracy and precision and are highly organized
Strong work ethic and a can-do positive attitude is a must
Seamlessly manage competing priorities in a fast and high-pressured matrixed environment
Solid experience in firms’ business operations and ability to set up systems and processes to ensure firm-wide controls
Proven experience leading process improvement initiatives, developing analytics to drive decision-making, demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis and build robust financial models
Proven track record of advanced analytical skills; must be able to define and execute key analysis
And here’s another list of qualities we think make a good Oatly team member:
You feel connected to our mission of encouraging health, sustainability, and transparency
You are a self-starter who doesn’t need direct supervision to motivate you for success – we believe strongly in building a culture of individual accountability and ownership and need partners that can embrace that mentality
You are ready to make your mark in a smaller, growing brand leveraging your experience to deliver amazing results and build an outstanding company
You have entrepreneurial spirit in that you’re comfortable with ambiguity and are energized by the process of building something lasting from the ground up
You enjoy sharing your quirkiness and talents with your coworkers
Another bulleted list felt redundant, so we wrote this long sentence with all the ways we sweeten the deal to work with us, like providing generous paid vacation for starters, really great benefits with 100% medical coverage, genuinely great coworkers who want to see the company and each other succeed, a start-up vibe with an established company history, and a fridge full of the best non-dairy alternative in the world for your enjoyment.
The salary for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to geographic location, internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. Compensation may also include bonus, commission, or equity as applicable. For the state of Colorado only, our good faith estimate of the starting pay for this role is $140,000.
Oatly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
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