Remote Senior FP&A Leader - Forecasting & Margin Strategy

Embedded Shishya; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent health care coverage for you

Generous time off

20 hours volunteer time each year

Paid bonding leave

Job summary

Ripple Foods is seeking a Sr. FP&A Manager to lead planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis across the company.

This role partners with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting to drive visibility into performance, support decision-making, and improve financial discipline across the organization. This position balances strategic and tactical work: building models, owning forecast processes, analyzing performance drivers, and translating complex financial

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 6+ years of 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.

Responsibilities

• Support the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• Help maintain financial models for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, cash flow, and scenario planning.
• Develop forecast assumptions in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting.
• Lead variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and key business drivers affecting financial performance.
• Analyze sales performance by customer, channel, SKU, product line, and region.
• Partner with Sales to evaluate customer-level profitability, volume trends, pricing, deductions, trade spend, and promotional ROI.
• Support monthly customer and channel reviews with actionable insights.
• Help improve forecast accuracy by connecting sales forecasts to demand planning, shipment trends, 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 to understand cost drivers and margin improvement opportunities.
• Support standard cost updates, cost savings initiatives, and margin bridge analysis.
• Provide financial support for new product launches, reformulations, and operational changes.
• Own departmental expense reporting and forecasting across key functions.
• Partner with budget owners to review spend, identify variances, and update forecasts.
• Support headcount planning, marketing spend analysis, G&A tracking, and department-level accountability.
• Improve visibility into fixed versus variable costs and discretionary spending.
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for executive leadership.
• Develop clear dashboards, KPIs, and financial summaries that highlight business performance.
• Support board reporting, investor materials, lender reporting, and strategic projects as needed.
• Turn financial data into practical business recommendations.
• Improve reporting cadence, data accuracy, and financial storytelling.
• Improve FP&A processes, templates, models, and reporting tools.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure actuals are accurate, timely, and aligned with reporting needs.
• Support implementation or optimization of planning, ERP, BI, and reporting systems.
• Help build scalable finance infrastructure as the company grows.

Skills

Forecasting

Financial Modeling

P&L Management

Cross-functional Collaboration

Advanced Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field

Tools

NetSuite

Oracle

Adaptive

Anaplan

SAP

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Ripple Foods is seeking a Sr. FP&A Manager to lead planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis across the company.

This role partners with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting to drive visibility into performance, support decision-making, and improve financial discipline across the organization. This position balances strategic and tactical work: building models, owning forecast processes, analyzing performance drivers, and translating complex financial