CooperDouglas is partnering with a growing, investor-backed consumer food company in Los Angeles. The business is scaling quickly with national retail partners and is building out its finance function to match. This is a high-visibility seat for an FP&A leader who wants to own planning, sit close to the executive team, and help shape how the company grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecasts and long-range plan, partnering with operations, sales and supply chain leaders
• Build and maintain driver-based models for volume, seasonality, pricing, cost of goods and margin by customer and product
• Analyze sourcing, production, freight and logistics costs, track margin trends and explain variances
• Produce monthly performance reporting and KPI dashboards for the executive team and board
• Support pricing and customer profitability analysis for key retail and wholesale accounts
• Model growth investments, capacity and capital projects, including scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Partner with accounting on the close, accruals and inventory to keep forecasts tied to actuals
• Improve planning tools and processes as the company scales

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field
• 5+ years of FP&A or corporate finance experience in food, agriculture, CPG or another product-based business
• Experience with seasonal or commodity-driven cost structures strongly preferred
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with BI and planning tools is a plus
• Clear communicator who is comfortable presenting to senior leadership
• Hands-on, curious and comfortable in a fast-moving, growing company
• MBA or CPA a plus