Finance Manager

We are an established, growing sporting goods brand and are expanding our team by bringing in our 1st FP&A professional. We are looking for an FP&A Manager to take ownership of our budgeting and planning processes, further establish finance as a business partner to the organization, and modernize our reporting. As the organization continues to achieve record revenues, we need stronger visibility into our operations and cash flow to better predict, plan, and manage the business. This is an opportunity to step into a stable, well-established organization and modernize the business.Responsibilities:Lead the annual company-wide budgeting process and partner with budget owners to forecast expenses and provide guidance.Develop and track KPIs to monitor business performance, analyze major expense categories, and summarize variances versus plans, budgets, and forecasts.Support ad hoc financial modeling and scenario analysis.Create standardized reporting templates and dashboards, analyze actual results versus budget and forecast, and update rolling forecasts.Prepare executive-level summaries highlighting key drivers, risks, and opportunities, and support monthly close with analytical insight.Design, maintain, and update structured cash flow and balance sheet forecasts, coordinating with department leaders and analyzing variances.Identify risks and opportunities related to liquidity, working capital, and capital structure, and communicate key movements to senior leadership.Maintain reserve analyses (inventory, sales returns, purchase price variances, manufacturing variances, and bad debt) with consistent, documented assumptions.Partner with Accounting to ensure proper financial statement presentation and compliance.Analyze variances between actual and forecasted inventory costs, evaluate costing methodologies, and identify systemic issues in inventory processing.Monitor aged inventory, coordinate scrap approvals, and track financial impact.Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, reporting quality, and planning processes.Identify opportunities for automation and enhanced reporting tools, support ERP/BI system enhancements, and establish FP&A best practices for documentation and controls.Requirements:Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related - required7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A / corporate financeExperience in consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, or other product/inventory related operationsExposure to inventory accounting and cost analysisStrong eye for process, efficiency, and optimizing systems/tools/templates, etc.Excellent communication skills and ability to confidently engage with cross-functional team members