Strategic Finance Senior Analyst, FP&A - Poshmark｜Meet.jobs

Job Description

Will lead Poshmark’s financial planning and reporting function to support the rapid growth of the Company. You will provide executive leadership with critical insights into the P&L by leading our monthly close reporting. You’ll drive the cost side of FP&A, from developing budgets to identifying and presenting opportunities to optimize costs. This role requires a strong interest in puzzle solving, ability to recognize patterns, and a curiosity to understand the “why” behind business trends. You will build strong cross-functional relationships and be comfortable and effective at communicating finance concepts to colleagues with a variety of professional backgrounds. If you possess both exceptional technical & interpersonal skills and want to use this unique combination to influence the strategy and success of a high-growth ecommerce marketplace, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership with actionable business insights and recommendations to drive growth while optimizing costs - including strategic decisions on pricing, product, and policies
• Build and maintain bottom-up forecasting models for variable costs, while improving predictive accuracy and furthering the automation of these models
• Lead cost planning by developing budgets, tracking, and explaining variance
• Build out finance tools to automate our processes and drive efficiency
• Collaborate with accounting, data analytics, and business systems teams, as well as stakeholders across the company on all of the above
• Serve the Poshmark user community by identifying and pursuing opportunities to make their Poshmark experience even better

6-Month Accomplishments:

• Develop a firm grasp of Poshmark’s key business metrics and their drivers; proactively identify changes in trends and be able to explain underlying causes
• Demonstrate a perspective on cost planning that balances business investment needs with margin objectives, and be able to provide recommendations that reflect this thinking
• Take cost planning to the next level by automating and improving on current processes to increase cost predictability and improve planning efficiency

12+ Month Accomplishments:

• Partner cross-functionally with teams within the organization to solve business problems, and develop a strong relationship with the stakeholders
• Demonstrate a command of cost drivers, data sources and planning assumptions… be the team’s “go to” person for all things cost related
• Proactively identify and drive new initiatives/projects to increase operational efficiencies and support rapid growth

Minimum Skills and Experience:

• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar
• 3-5 years in Finance, Banking, and/or Management Consulting
• An understanding of corporate financial planning, modeling, reporting and analysis
• Highly analytical, detail oriented and inquisitive
• Proven ability to achieve results in a fast-paced, growing and ambiguous environment
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills and ability to collaborate constructively with, and influence business partners

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience in startup or high-growth company corporate finance
• Experience with Adaptive or similar planning tools
• Experience in or understanding of e-commerce and/or marketplace business models