Director, FP&A

Zenni pioneered the online eyewear industry in 2003 with a mission to make prescription eyewear affordable and accessible to everyone. Based in Marin County, California, Zenni offers men, women, and children the freedom to express their personal style and individuality through high-quality prescription and protective eyewear curated with a sense for fashion and incredible selection. With over 33 million frames sold worldwide, a pair of Zenni’s is owned in every country across the globe. Zenni is proud to be the Official Eyewear Partner of the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Bulls and San Francisco 49ers. For more information, visit www.zenni.com or connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. 

Position Overview:

Zenni is looking to hire a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). The role will report to the Vice President of Finance and include a significant workload directly with the CEO and other executives. The leader in this role will develop a 360-degree view of Zenni and build the FP&A team with responsibility for budgeting, financial oversight, and planning for all business units. This role is highly visible and will interact frequently with the C-Level executives and various business leaders across the company.

A strong predictor for success will be evident in a candidate who will have a strong experience set in high-growth e-commerce companies, consolidated financial planning and analysis, and an ability to leverage data analytics to drive predictive modeling and forecasting decisions.

What you’ll be doing at Zenni:

• Build and manage a world-class, data-first, FP&A team that is responsible for consolidated financial forecasting, budgeting, and planning across teams, and reporting (monthly close, operating model, and key metric reporting). 
• Lead cross-functional projects with the Data Analytics team, including a complex predictive company modeling tool used for forecasting purposes. 
• Own total revenue forecasts and related analyses, providing visibility and helping to define key topline metrics. 
• Partner with business leaders and executives across Product, IT, Marketing, Customer Experience and Operations, and other G&A functions to ensure robust forecasting and budgeting processes are in place. You must also ensure these leaders are developing a mature understanding of the Zenni financial and l story where their function fits in. 

• Fully operationalize FP&A business systems including budgeting and planning tools like Planful and streamline reports off systems like NetSuite ERP. You will partner with our IT lead as well as Accounting on a number of these projects. Experience building systems that can handle multi-product, multi-geo, and multi-entity business lines at scale is preferred. 
• Design unit economic models, operating expense allocation frameworks, profit and loss statements, and forecasts for products and business lines. 
• Own the financial projections models for both the near and long term, driving a high degree of accuracy in the near-term (12 - 18 months) and working with business partners to identify levers for greater efficiency in the long-term (24 - 36 months). 
• Work directly with executives and business leaders to support a variety of special projects, business models, product changes, and investment decisions. 
• Lead, mentor, and grow our Financial Planning and Analysis team. Drive impact at scale, and recruit and manage high-performing finance professionals that also take a data-first approach. 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• An advanced degree is a plus. 
• 10 to 15+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investing roles (VC or PE), investment banking, or other similar roles. 

• Experience in a high-growth e-commerce environment; capable of prioritizing and executing many projects at once 
• Business partnership experience at the executive level; ability to summarize information and effectively communicate to both financial and non-financial audiences. 
• Experience navigating through the ambiguity of blue-sky thinking and undefined financial data problems. 
• Commitment to building inclusive teams and team culture. 
• Experience with financial planning tools (e.g. Planful), Tableau, and ERPs (e.g. NetSuite)

• An advanced knowledge of Excel is required.
• Experience with SQL preferred.