Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thriving Brands is a fast-growing consumer packaged goods company focused on acquiring, revitalizing, and growing iconic consumer brands. The FP&A Analyst partners with Operations, Supply Chain, and Sales to lead budgeting and forecasting, deliver management reporting, and provide financial insights that improve revenue growth, margins, operating leverage, and cash flow.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecast cycles for P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
- Build driver-based models for volume/mix/price, conversion costs, productivity, scrap/yield, freight, FX
- Partner with S&OP to align the demand/supply plan with revenue, COGS, and capacity assumptions
- Develop OPEX and CAPEX plans; track variances, runrate impacts, and depreciation/amortization
- Maintain a consolidated forecast across legal entities, multi-currency, and product/value streams
- Deliver monthly FP&A pack: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and variance analysis vs. Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year
- Produce gross margin bridges (price/volume/mix, PPV, usage/efficiency, overhead absorption, freight, FX)
- Publish KPI dashboards: GM%, conversion cost per unit, inventory turns, DIO/DSO/DPO, E&O exposure, ontime infull, and productivity
- Create executive-ready summaries and board slides with clear insights and actions
- Perform customer/product profitability analysis, pricing and discount analysis, and portfolio rationalization
- Evaluate CAPEX with NPV/IRR/payback; monitor postinvestment benefits
- Collaborate closely with Cost Accounting on standard cost rolls, cost revaluations, and the P&L/balance sheet impacts
- Build robust models for scenario planning (best/base/worst), sensitivity analyses, and breakeven
- Forecast working capital (AR/AP/Inventory), E&O reserves, and cash conversion cycle; improve cash forecast accuracy
- Model FX impacts on revenue, margin, and costs for multi-currency operations
- Tie out forecast and actuals to NetSuite; reconcile key variances and ensure data integrity
- Automate recurring reports using Saved Searches, SuiteAnalytics, and scheduled workflows
- Support audit requests and maintain documentation consistent with internal control standards
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics
- 3–5+ years of FP&A or Finance experience in the CPG industry
- Strong financial modeling skills; advanced Excel (lookups, pivots, scenario/sensitivity modeling)
- Experience with NetSuite for actuals and reporting (Saved Searches, SuiteAnalytics, dashboards)
- BI skills (Power BI/Tableau), and familiarity with SQL or SuiteAnalytics Connect
- Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency environments; exposure to US GAAP/IFRS
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