FP&A Manager - Growth

CookUnity; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options plan

Bi-annual performance bonus

Sabbatical after 5 years

Paid family leave

Compassionate leave

CookUnity meal credits

AI-forward workplace tools

Wellness subsidies

Job summary

CookUnity is seeking a Growth Finance Manager to lead our Growth finance function and partner with Marketing, Brand, and Product to drive strategic decision-making.

You will own forecasting, performance reviews, CAC/LTV analytics, and a capital allocation framework to optimize marketing spend, product initiatives, and expansion while ensuring strong internal controls and AI-enabled insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or operations; MBA preferred.
• 5-8 years of finance experience with growth exposure incl. FP&A modeling.
• Proficient in advanced financial modeling and FP&A tools; strong accounting knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning for Growth: forecasts and targets translating plans into financials.
• Lead performance reporting: dashboards and reviews.
• Own CAC forecasting model across paid channels with attribution analysis.
• Maintain LTV, CAC, and payback economics by channel/cohort.
• Build capital allocation framework for marketing spend across initiatives.
• Develop and evaluate business cases for investments and new products.
• Partner with Marketing, Data, and Accounting to ensure reliable data infrastructure.
• Identify financial risks and ensure compliance.

Skills

Financial modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Problem solving

Time management

Attention to detail

Generative AI usage

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance/operations

MBA preferred

Tools

FP&A tools

Financial modeling tools

Job description

Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul.

Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world.

If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting.

The role:

The Growth Finance manager will be a leader in our growing Finance team. You will be the key finance business partner to the Growth organization, comprised of Marketing, Brand, and Product teams. You will provide financial insights, develop forecasts, and support strategic decision-making. You will lead key workstreams that drive results for the organization, including the performance review process, marketing investment analysis, and product innovation analysis. You will be responsible for setting ambitious goals, analyzing performance to identify opportunities and risks, collaboratively building plans to achieve those goals, and leading decision-making to ensure to stay on track. We need an influential finance leader to establish effective new processes and mold them for CookUnity’s needs.

Responsibilities:

• Own financial planning for Growth: build and maintain forecasts and targets that account for marketing efficiency, new product performance, and business objectives, and translate Growth leaders' plans into the financial plan
• Lead performance reporting: build dashboards and tools to track operational/financial performance vs. plan, and own weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews
• Own the CAC forecasting model across all paid channels (efficiency curves, elasticity, seasonality), and run attribution analysis to explain blended CAC movements
• Maintain LTV, CAC, and payback economics by channel, market, and cohort to flag where unit economics are strengthening or compressing
• Build and own the capital allocation framework guiding marketing spend across acquisition, reactivation, and retention, grounded in marginal return analysis
• Develop and evaluate business cases for marketing investments, new initiatives, and new products, including retention/promo economics and campaign ROI vs. contribution margin
• Partner with Marketing, Data, and Accounting to maintain reliable data infrastructure for marketing finance, and drive cross-functional process improvements
• Identify financial risks tied to growth activities and ensure compliance with financial regulations, policies, and internal controls

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or operations, MBA preferred
• 5-8 years of experience in finance roles of increasing responsibility. Ideally, a combination of both large company experience and startup experience
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including creating complex financial models from the ground up
• Experience with FP&A modeling tools
• Functional knowledge of accounting concepts and internal controls
• Strong communication, collaboration, and influence skills that can drive cross-functional initiatives involving employees from across the organization.
• Ability to problem-solve, strong time-management skills, and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail with big picture orientation- capable of interpreting findings and communicating valuable, actionable insights.
• Unfazed by the challenges of developing systems and processes from scratch.
• Ability to leverage generative AI to increase output quality and speed.

Learn More About CookUnity

We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore:CookUnity's Leadership Principles – The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale.

We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you, we’d love to connect!

We grow, you grow: Stock Options Plan granted on Day 1

Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus

5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical

Paid Family leave

Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises

A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly

AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster.

Wellness perks: access to fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle

Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!

Compensation

All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Pay Range for this position

$135,000 — $175,000 USD

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.