Ignite HR Solutions

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Support annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes
• Maintain financial models for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, cash flow, and scenario planning
• Develop forecast assumptions with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting
• Lead variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year
• Identify risks, opportunities, and business drivers affecting financial performance
• Analyze sales performance by customer, channel, SKU, product line, and region
• Evaluate customer-level profitability, volume trends, pricing, deductions, trade spend, and promotional ROI
• Support monthly customer and channel reviews with actionable insights
• Improve forecast accuracy by connecting sales forecasts to demand planning, shipment trends, customer plans, and historical performance
• Evaluate new customer opportunities and pricing changes
• Monitor gross margin performance by SKU, customer, and channel
• Analyze COGS, freight, warehousing, manufacturing, co-packer costs, ingredient costs, packaging, and yield variances
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on cost drivers and margin improvement opportunities
• Support standard cost updates, cost savings initiatives, margin bridge analysis, new product launches, reformulations, and operational changes
• Own departmental expense reporting and forecasting
• Partner with budget owners to review spending, identify variances, and update forecasts
• Support headcount planning, marketing spend analysis, G&A tracking, and department-level accountability
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for executive leadership
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and financial summaries
• Support board reporting, investor materials, lender reporting, and strategic projects
• Improve FP&A processes, templates, models, reporting tools, data accuracy, and financial storytelling
• Partner with Accounting to ensure actuals are accurate and timely
• Support implementation or optimization of planning, ERP, BI, and reporting systems
• Build scalable finance infrastructure as the company grows

Senior FP&A Manager