Job Description:
Wana Brands is a leading infused edibles company in North America with operations in 14 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and growing! Wana Brands is looking for a strategic financial leader to join our growing finance team. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role is a critical leadership role to ensure the financial, strategic, and operational objectives for the business are met. If you are a strategic, humble, and results driven leader and do not mind getting your hands dirty, we want to meet you!
Working closely with the CFO and the senior leadership team, Director of FP&A will lead the budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, and business strategic analyses. S(he) will be responsible for financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting efforts to ensure efficient financial operations. This is an excellent opportunity to make significant contributions to a North America’s #1 edibles company.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and evolve the core FP&A processes: annual operation planning process, quarterly forecasting, rolling forecasting, monthly variance reporting, and supporting other key related company processes.
Own the evolution of the financial planning and analysis system(s) to streamline and improve the financial and non-financial processes.
Partner with business leaders, develop and drive financial and non-financial KPIs, provide decision support and strategic financial analysis and guidance.
Prepare monthly management reporting package, provide senior management with timely insights into trends, operational results, and growth drivers.
Continually improve the consistency and quality of reporting to provide clear insights and speed decision-making, including accuracy and accountability of financial planning/forecasting.
Develop and monitor critical financial performance metrics and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders.
Job Requirements:
Other ad hoc analysis and reporting as requested by senior leadership team.
Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office setting.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to talk and hear.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. The preferred location is Colorado, with frequent workdays at our Boulder, CO headquarters. We are open to discussing a hybrid or remote work environment as needed.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business
Minimum 10 years of FP&A, corporate/strategic finance, investment banking, with a minimum of 5 years in a financial leadership position ideally in a CPG, licensing or cannabis company
Deep knowledge and experience with financial systems; advanced excel skills; experience with data mining is a plus
A deep devotion to detail & accuracy - must ensure the integrity of analysis, reporting, metrics, and systems are of the highest quality
Proven ability to create and analyze financial models to analyze company performance for internal strategic planning
The ability to communicate business strategies and complex financial information clearly and accurately to a variety of audiences, via written and verbal modalities
Ability to use rigorous logic and methods to effectively solve problems
Capability of building constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners
Preferred Education and Experience