Follain leads the movement toward healthier personal care by curating only the best (healthy, proven, pure, pleasing) products on follain.com and in a growing number of stores across the country. Together we’re making widespread change in the wildly unregulated and unhealthy beauty industry. We’re currently building a whole new Follain experience – online and in-stores. Want to be part of our mission to change the world?

Follain is seeking a technically savvy, detail-oriented, relationship builder to join our Finance organization. Reporting directly to the CFO, the FP&A Manager will be instrumental in developing budgeting/forecasting methodologies, systems, reporting, and analysis. The FP&A Manager will also be responsible for leading the Company’s data and analytics function.

In this role you will develop processes for the annual budget as well as quarterly updates, working as a team with the accounting organization, to provide both quantitative and qualitative results. You will assemble management presentations and assist with strategic decisions to assist management, its shareholders and other users in making educated economic decisions about the Company’s future. 

Financial Planning

• Prepare and manage the company-wide budgeting and forecasting process that results in an annual budget and quarterly forecasts; including expense budgets, capital spending, income statement, balance sheet and cash flow. Produce monthly variance analysis.

Financial Planning Responsibilities:

• Manages, directs and prepares the budget and financial forecasts
• Institutes and maintains other planning processes, and analyzes variances
• Produce annual operating plan that encompasses expense budgets, capital spending, income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow; as well as key indicators
• Respond, in a timely manner, to ad hoc requests for analysis
• Participate in selection and implementation of automated systems to increase the efficiency of the entire organization
• Work closely with CFO to provide monthly reporting and quarterly board presentations

Data & Analytics

• Manage the data and analytics function for the business. This includes supporting the integration of new data sources in partnership with engineering into our data warehouse, and designing and creating functional dashboards (daily/ monthly/ weekly). Work with functional owners.

Data & Analytics Responsibilities:

• Become the in-house BI expert driving training and utilization across the Company
• Create in-take and prioritization for new requests and own data quality
• Define, build and maintain company dashboards for functional owners
• Communicate key insights and findings to cross-functional teams
• Identify opportunities to improve business performance and drive cross initiatives including holding regular stakeholder meetings

Qualifications:

• 4 - 8 years experience in accounting/finance with increasing responsibility
• E-commerce/ retail/ inventory Company experience required
• Superior excel and data analysis required
• Experience in high growth environment required
• Prior budgeting and forecasting experience (including full income statement and balance sheet) an absolute requirement
• BA/BS in Accounting/Finance or equivalent, CPA or MBA preferred
• Team leadership abilities
• Excellent communication skills