Vice President FP&A

Overview

This role is for a Vice President of FP&A to lead enterprise financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision support through the organization’s next stage of scale.

You will serve as a senior finance leader and trusted partner to the CFO, executive leadership team, and cross-functional business leaders. Key ownership areas include long-range planning, enterprise financial modeling, forecasting cadence, board and executive reporting, and strategic financial analysis that informs investment, growth, and profitability decisions.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Financial Strategy & Long-Range Planning

• Lead the long-range planning process, partnering with executive and functional leaders to translate strategy into multi-year financial plans, resource allocation priorities, and measurable business outcomes.
• Own and evolve the enterprise financial model to support growth planning, profitability, capital allocation, and scenario analysis.
• Partner with senior leadership to evaluate strategic tradeoffs across revenue growth, margin expansion, operating expense investment, working capital, and organizational scale.
• Develop financial frameworks to anticipate future risks, opportunities, and investment needs as the business grows.

Financial Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Own the company-wide forecasting and planning operating rhythm across gross revenue, net revenue, trade, COGS, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, cash flow, balance sheet, and key business drivers.
• Lead the annual budget, reforecasting, and monthly performance management processes, ensuring cross-functional leaders have clear visibility into financial expectations, tradeoffs, and accountability.
• Establish financial governance, timelines, tools, and reporting standards to improve forecast accuracy, business ownership, and decision quality.
• Compare monthly operating results against budget and forecast, identify key variances, and partner with business owners to understand drivers, risks, and corrective actions.

Executive, Board & Investor Readiness

• Lead preparation of board, executive, and corporate reporting materials, ensuring financial narratives are clear, accurate, actionable, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Translate complex financial and operational insights into executive-ready recommendations.
• Support equity raise, debt, or capital markets initiatives as needed, including materials preparation, diligence support, quality of earnings support, cost of capital analysis, scenario modeling, and investor-facing financial narratives.
• Serve as a senior finance partner in high-stakes discussions, bringing strong judgment, business context, and clear articulation of financial implications.

Strategic Finance & Decision Support

• Lead financial modeling and analysis for strategic decisions, including growth investments, new products, channel expansion, pricing strategy, margin optimization, tradeoffs, and process improvements.
• Evaluate profitability by product, channel, customer, SKU, region, and other relevant dimensions to guide investment decisions and commercial strategy.
• Partner with Sales, Revenue Growth Management, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting to evaluate performance and identify opportunities for profitable growth.
• Develop and improve pricing, margin, and investment models for existing products, new products, channels, and customer opportunities.
• Partner with revenue and commercial teams on deal pricing, trade investment reviews, commission structures, and customer-level financial decision support.

Finance Operating Model, Systems & Scale

• Design and implement scalable FP&A processes, tools, reporting infrastructure, and operating rhythms to improve visibility, speed, accuracy, and decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen financial systems, planning tools, data quality, and reporting automation.
• Build repeatable workflows that enable disciplined business reviews, faster insight generation, and stronger accountability across functions.
• Lead ad hoc strategic analyses and special projects aligned to enterprise priorities and evolving business needs.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Build, structure, and develop a high-performing FP&A team aligned to strategy, business complexity, and future scale.
• Establish clear roles, expectations, development plans, and operating cadences.
• Coach and develop finance talent to foster accountability, curiosity, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, and strong stakeholder partnership.
• Model leadership expectations through clarity, trust, inclusion, sound judgment, and a strong ownership mindset.

Cross-Functional Influence & Executive Partnership

• Serve as a senior connector across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, People, and Executive Leadership to embed financial insights into planning and decisions.
• Influence senior leaders through clear financial storytelling, data-backed recommendations, and balanced assessment of risk, opportunity, and long-term impact.
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities with maturity, transparency, and a company-first mindset.
• Create clarity, raise the bar for financial discipline, and help teams connect day-to-day decisions to company goals.

Requirements

• 12–15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, or related functions.
• Experience leading FP&A in a high-growth CPG, food & beverage, consumer products, retail, marketplace, or similarly complex operating environment strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to own enterprise planning, forecasting, financial modeling, budget management, and executive-level business performance reporting.
• Strong commercial and operational finance acumen, including experience with revenue planning, margin analysis, pricing, tradeoffs, customer/channel profitability, working capital, and investment decision support.
• Demonstrated experience preparing executive, board, investor, or lender-facing financial materials with clear narratives and actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of accounting, budgeting, cost control, and finance principles, including GAAP.
• Track record of building scalable FP&A processes, tools, systems, reporting routines, and financial governance in a growing organization.
• Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams; able to create clarity, accountability, and development pathways during periods of change and scale.
• Strategic and effective communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, simplify complex financial concepts, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong judgment and decision quality; able to evaluate complex tradeoffs, assess risk, and recommend practical paths forward in ambiguous situations.
• High emotional intelligence and cultural competency, with the ability to build trust, resolve tension productively, and partner effectively across functions.
• Strategic and hands-on approach: comfortable shaping enterprise-level finance strategy while also diving into models, details, and operating mechanics when needed.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field preferred; MBA and/or CPA a plus.
• Comfort operating in a remote-first, fast-paced, highly collaborative environment using tools such as Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, Slack, Zoom, NetSuite, Claude AI (other exposure to AI tools) and financial planning/reporting platforms.
• Flexibility to travel as needed for company meetings, team offsites, board preparation, and cross-functional planning sessions. Estimated Travel:10-15%

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading FP&A in a high-growth CPG, food & beverage, consumer products, retail, marketplace, or similarly complex operating environment.
• MBA and/or CPA.

Compensation & Benefits

• $220,000–$260,000 base salary + bonus

Location

• Remote-first; travel estimated at 10–15%.