Director, FP&A

About Lemon Perfect:

Meet the new squeeze on hydration! Lemon Perfect is a super-refreshing, great-tasting, and hydrating flavored lemon water with zero sugar and no artificial flavors or sweeteners. Lemon Perfect is widely considered by industry insiders to be one of the most scalable, exciting, and innovative emerging beverage concepts in the marketplace.

Founded by Yanni Hufnagel in 2017, the Company’s mission is to democratize drinkable wellness by making Lemon Perfect accessible for anyone, anytime, anywhere.

The Lemon Perfect Company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Position Summary:

Lemon Perfect is seeking a high-performing Director of FP&A who brings an analytical mind, leadership skills, and a desire to join a winning team. This position will report to the Vice President of Finance, and the main focus for this role is to oversee the development of financial models for budgeting and forecasting.

As the company continues to grow, especially with our increase in sales to a wide variety of retailers, we need a team member who can lead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning process. This individual will conduct financial analysis and report efforts to ensure efficient financial operations. We are also looking for someone who can provide insightful suggestions for marketing investment, lead cost reduction efforts, and assist with strategic business decisions.

This role will be remote, though there could be travel from time to time to meet with the Finance team in person.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Create and lead a strategic planning process
• Own the budgeting, forecasting and management reporting processes
• Manage and perform special projects
• Prepare material for Board of Directors and investor relation activities
• Prepare detailed variance analytics to drive understanding of the business
• Drive improved profitability through analytics and operational relationships
• Build and deliver regional P&L's
• Help lead initiatives to enhance FP&A across the organization
• Partner with our Accounting team on monthly close process, financial reporting, and preparation of financial statements
• Assist in all aspects of the company’s forecasting and budgeting process and compare detailed KPIs vs. actual performance
• Prepare detailed analyses to support major investment initiatives and track performance of those initiatives vs. plan

Qualifications

• Excellent financial modeling skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related degree required
• 10+ years of corporate or FP&A experience
• MBA, CFA and/or CPA preferred
• Previous budgeting and forecasting experience, especially at CPG companies, a plus.
• Highly proficient in excel with the ability to maintain and update complex KPI trackers and quickly build detailed financial models from scratch
• Has the ability to develop plans for model enhancements
• Has the ability to oversee financial analysis when evaluating pricing, valuation and operational decisions
• Has the ability to help research and communicate results comparing actual vs forecast and plan to senior executives monthly with insight on main drivers/trends
• Has the ability to review product line P&L’s and communicate results to senior management
• Has the ability to make recommendations for Model enhancements to increase efficiency and refine reporting

Benefits

Commensurate with experience; strong benefits package; equity plan participation