Senior FP&A Manager
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Senior FP&A Manager driving forecasting, reporting, and business analysis for Ripple Foods, a plant-based CPG company. Partnering cross-functionally to improve financial performance and planning.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
- 6+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, accounting, or business analytics
- CPG, food and beverage, manufacturing, or consumer products experience required
- Strong understanding of P&L management, gross margin, trade spend, COGS, inventory, and operating expenses
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
- Experience with ERP, planning, and reporting systems such as NetSuite, Oracle, Adaptive, Anaplan, SAP, Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
- Ability to work with large data sets and translate analysis into clear recommendations
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner cross-functionally with non-finance teams
- High attention to detail, strong business judgment, and ability to manage multiple priorities
Benefits:
- Excellent health care coverage for you and your family
- Generous time off
- 20 hours paid time each year to volunteer through Pay It Forward or Give It Back
- Paid bonding leave for new parents
- Pregnancy disability leave
- Bonus
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