Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Position Summary
AdvoCare is seeking a hands-on, commercially minded Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to serve as a strategic business partner to the Chief Financial Officer, executive leadership team, and cross-functional business leaders.
This role will lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, executive reporting, and business analytics while partnering closely with Accounting to ensure timely and accurate financial results. The FP&A Manager will translate financial and operational data into actionable insights that support growth, profitability, cash flow, and informed decision-making.
The ideal candidate brings 5–8 years of progressive FP&A experience, including significant experience supporting a Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business. Experience within nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, consumer packaged goods (CPG), eCommerce, or an entrepreneurial/startup environment is strongly preferred.
This position is well suited for someone who is comfortable working in a fast-moving organization, building and improving processes, navigating ambiguity, and balancing strategic analysis with hands-on execution. Expert-level Microsoft Excel skills are essential.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning and Forecasting
- Partner with the CFO, Controller, and business leaders to lead the annual budgeting and long-range planning processes.
- Lead the development and ongoing management of rolling monthly forecasts.
- Develop and maintain integrated Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow models.
- Build scalable, driver-based financial models that reflect key DTC and consumer business drivers.
- Forecast revenue by product, customer segment, sales channel, promotion, and other relevant business drivers.
- Partner with department leaders to develop budgets, forecasts, headcount plans, and operating assumptions.
- Evaluate forecast performance and improve the accuracy of financial and operational projections.
- Identify financial risks and opportunities and recommend actions to improve revenue, profitability, and cash flow.
- Develop scenario and sensitivity models to support strategic decisions in a rapidly changing business environment.
DTC and Commercial Analytics
- Analyze DTC revenue drivers, including traffic, conversion, average order value, customer acquisition, retention, repeat purchase behavior, and promotional performance.
- Evaluate customer acquisition cost (CAC), customer lifetime value (LTV), return on ad spend (ROAS), contribution margin, and channel profitability.
- Partner with Marketing and Sales to assess marketing investments, customer economics, promotional strategies, product performance, and growth opportunities.
- Analyze profitability by product, SKU, customer segment, promotion, and sales channel.
- Evaluate pricing, discounting, product mix, gross margin, and promotional effectiveness.
- Monitor customer and order trends to identify changes in demand, purchasing behavior, and financial performance.
- Develop financial models and business cases for new products, marketing initiatives, technology investments, and strategic growth opportunities.
Financial Reporting
- Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and operational reporting packages.
- Develop clear executive dashboards and KPI reporting that connect financial results to operational performance.
- Prepare Board of Directors presentations and supporting financial analyses.
- Perform detailed variance analysis against Budget, Forecast, Prior Year, and Strategic Plan.
- Provide meaningful commentary on business performance, key drivers, emerging trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Present financial results and actionable recommendations to executive leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Translate complex financial information into concise, business-focused insights for nonfinancial stakeholders.
Business Partnership
- Serve as a trusted financial partner to Marketing, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, IT, Human Resources, and other business functions.
- Partner closely with Accounting and the Controller to ensure accurate financial reporting and alignment between actual results and forecasts.
- Support the month-end close process through financial analysis, accrual support, variance explanations, and management commentary.
- Work with Supply Chain and Operations to analyze inventory levels, product costs, purchasing needs, working capital, and potential inventory risks.
- Build strong relationships with department leaders and help them understand the financial impact of business decisions.
Process Improvement and Scalability
- Improve and automate recurring financial reporting, forecasting, and analytical processes.
- Build practical FP&A tools and processes that can scale as the organization grows.
- Enhance financial models, dashboards, management reports, and data accessibility.
- Establish consistent financial planning assumptions, reporting standards, and performance measures.
- Improve financial data quality in partnership with Accounting, IT, and other functional teams.
- Champion FP&A best practices while remaining flexible and responsive to changing business priorities.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve the speed, accuracy, and usefulness of financial information.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- 5–8 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related financial planning experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting a Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business, including a strong understanding of DTC revenue drivers and customer economics.
- Experience supporting executive leadership in a fast-paced, growth-oriented, or evolving business environment.
- Strong understanding of the Profit & Loss Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and working capital.
- Demonstrated experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, executive reporting, and KPI development.
- Experience analyzing DTC and commercial performance metrics such as CAC, LTV, ROAS, conversion, retention, average order value, gross margin, and contribution margin.
- Expert-level Microsoft Excel skills, including complex financial modeling, advanced formulas, dynamic arrays, PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot, dashboards, and scalable driver-based models.
- Ability to build financial processes and models with limited structure or established precedent.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to move between detailed analysis and broader business strategy.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present financial information to executive and nonfinancial audiences.
- High level of ownership, adaptability, organization, and attention to detail.
Preferred
- Experience within nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, health and wellness, CPG, consumer products, or retail.
- Experience working in a startup, high-growth, private-equity-backed, founder-led, or entrepreneurial business environment.
- Experience supporting an omnichannel business with DTC, eCommerce, retail, marketplace, subscription, or recurring-revenue channels.
- Experience with inventory planning, product-level profitability, SKU economics, supply chain finance, or working-capital management.
- MBA, CPA, or CFA.
- Experience with ERP systems and financial planning and analysis software.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or a similar business intelligence tool.
- Experience automating financial reporting and analytical processes.
- Experience preparing materials for Boards of Directors, investors, or executive leadership teams.
Why Join AdvoCare?
Work directly with the CFO and executive leadership team to build a world-class FP&A function. This highly visible role offers the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, partner across the organization, and help drive profitable growth through data-driven financial insights.