Senior Director, FP&A

About The Wellness Pet Company

The Wellness Pet Company crafts and produces premium natural pet food, treats, dental chews, and supplements. We believe that natural, premium nutrition focused on proven health outcomes is the foundation of creating mutual wellbeing for pets and their families. As a community of people, Wellies are positively obsessed with how to win for pets and their parents. We believe in the difference we make every single day, and we know that when we work collaboratively, Wellies are unstoppable -- Not only in providing the best nutrition to pets, but in building a better tomorrow for pets, their parents, and the world.

Your

When you join Wellness Pet, you join a team whose aligned values and purpose create a unique and exciting place to work every day. Join us on our adventure to fulfill a life of wellbeing together with pets and their parents. Come for a walk with us today!

What You Will Accomplish

Our Senior Director of FP&A will lead all financial planning and forecasting activities. As a true business partner, this individual will solve real business problems by forming and maintaining solid relationships within the business and using strategic analyses to understand and impact key business drivers:

• Lead and manage all aspects of company-wide financial planning, including strategic planning, the annual budgeting process, and in-year forecasting
• Implement best practices as it relates to financial planning and analyses including processes, systems, tools, and techniques across the global business functions
• Work directly with business unit leaders to solve business problems using the tools of financial analysis, forecasting and ad-hoc data analysis
• Understand the key drivers of our business and be the subject matter expert, coaching your business partners in the areas of costing, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting
• Define, develop, implement, and improve total company key performance indicators and methods for measurement, evaluation, and reporting on the key drivers of the business
• Develop profitability models at the brand, customer, and product level by working with commercial organizations and operations
• Responsible for analyzing commercial spend effectiveness and recommending improvements
• Develop and manage a team of two finance professionals
• Work across the director community to effectively solve problems, scope, and drive corporate initiatives to successful completion
• Effectively present and work with the senior leadership team on financial planning priorities
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed with all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so, we are seeking an individual who:

• Is consumer focused in all they do
• Continually challenge themselves to go the extra mile to get the job done, and ensure it’s done the right way as opposed to the easy way
• Hold themselves and others accountable
• Embraces continual development through the sharing of feedback and investment in learning opportunities.
• Is a true collaborator, sharing resources, and engages in healthy debate
• Celebrates differences and strives to learn from others who are different from themselves
• Gives back to their community and supports sustainable practices
  
  

In addition, for this specific role, we need someone who possesses:

• A bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of experience in roles of increasing responsibility within the FP&A function of an organization,
• A minimum of 5 years of experience within an FP&A function in a CPG company
• Prior people management experience
• Expert in financial planning and analysis, modeling, systems, accounting, reporting and controls
• Business acumen that drives decisions at both strategic and tactical levels
• Ability to manage and work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously with minimal oversight
• Ability to direct the work of others in gathering, analyzing, and reporting of various types of financial information
• Well-developed written and oral presentation skills
  
  

Why Work for Wellness Pet

We care about the wellbeing of our people, their families, and their pets. We treat every Wellie to a comprehensive benefits package full of extras to support their health, pets, passions, and Professional Development. More information about our benefits can be found on our website. The Wellness Pet Company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.