Head of Financial Planning Analysis

Soleil Collective

  • Fairfield, CT
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 months ago
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About Soleil CollectiveBacked by Gauge Capital, Soleil Collective is building a portfolio of leading high-growth brands specializing in sunless tan, suncare, and bodycare products. Soleil accelerates growth and improves profitability with sales, marketing, operations, and strategic management expertise. We have completed two acquisitions to date: Loving Tan and Coco & Eve.Loving Tan is the category leader in prestige tanning, delivering the most natural-looking tan. Proudly made on Australia’s famed Gold Coast, the professional quality, natural olive color, and flawless application are beloved by A-listers, creators, and beauty lovers alike.Coco & Eve’s story starts in Bali, among the island’s volcanic beaches and lush rainforests. The brand allows you to glow up like you just returned from a trip to paradise with our sun-kissed, skin-loving tan products and deliciously scented, efficacious haircare—all formulated with the best tropical Balinese ingredients.We are actively searching for additional brands that are a strong fit with our portfolio and vision with a goal of $200+ million in USD Sales through organic growth and acquisition within the next 3-4 years.About the role:The Head of Financial Planning & Analysis will be responsible for developing accurate forecasts and budgets, preparing insightful financial analysis, and supporting strategic decision-making for our sales, marketing, operations, and business development teams. This role will be the leader of our FP&A function and, as such, will take an ownership role in developing our standards and best practices for financial reporting and analysis. The role will report to the Chief Financial Officer with two directs reports located in Singapore. Additionally, the role will be expected to collaborate closely with the Global Controller and to partner cross-functionally, including with the commercial, operational and global leadership teams.Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain insightful financial standard financial reports and dashboards for commercial and operational stakeholders, providing clear and concise summaries of performance against targets.
  • Conduct in-depth analysis of business performance, including variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods. Identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide recommendations for improvement.
  • Prepare ad-hoc financial analysis to support key business decision making and strategic initiatives
  • Lead the development of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plans for commercial revenue, expenses, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Serve as a trusted financial partner to the business unit and cross-functional leadership team, providing financial guidance and support to achieve business objectives.
  • Support operations KPI tracking and scorecarding. Identify margin enhancement activities and prepare analysis that drives action while supporting the implementation and tracking results.
  • Support pricing strategies and initiatives through financial modeling and analysis, ensuring profitability and competitiveness. Support financial evaluation of new product launches, new marketplaces, new geographies, new channels and new customers.
  • Evaluate the ROI performance of sales and marketing programs and initiatives, providing recommendations for optimizing resource allocation and maximizing returns.
  • Identify and implement process improvements with a continuous improvement mindset to deliver to our business partners faster, more accurate, more impactful, more useful analytical and reporting insights.
  • Support the implementation and be a subject-matter expert of NetSuite ERP. Be a thought leader in the deployment of our analytics tools and processes in a post-ERP go-live. Continuously evaluate other software solutions that can enhance our FP&A capabilities and lead those implementations as needed.
  • Be a trusted business advisor to the business unit and a close collaborator with the accounting team. Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for non-financial stakeholders and spread financial literacy.
RequirementsRole Requirements/Competencies:
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, with a focus on consumer goods, preferably within global companies.
  • Proven track record of success in developing and implementing FP&A that drives results.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with the ability to see the big picture and drive business towards long-term value-creation goals
  • Proven ability to develop and maintain complex financial models in Excel or Google Sheets.
  • Strong understanding of accounting principles.
  • Experience with financial planning and reporting systems with previous hands-on working experience with NetSuite preferred.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire diverse stakeholders, including non-financial audiences.
  • Willingness to work across global time zones and outside of normal business hours.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills with experience managing and motivating a functionally broad and geographically dispersed team; demonstrated experience with change management.
  • Strategic mindset but willing and able to be very hands-on when needed in a ‘start-up’ environment
  • Highly collaborative with a cross-functional mindset but self-motivated and able to work independently when needed
  • Thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment and embraces changes as an opportunity.
  • High level of integrity, professionalism and discretion.

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