Associate, Corporate Strategy & Finance

Havenly Brands (Havenly, Interior Define, Burrow, The Citizenry, The Inside, and St. Frank)•Quinte West, ON

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves solving problems across the entire business, not just finance, by digging into marketing, site merchandising, product development, promotions, and inventory to surface insights and drive better decisions across all brands. The position requires an AI-first mindset, leveraging AI tools to work faster and smarter alongside traditional analytical methods. Success means solving complex, often non-finance problems and thinking through the first-, second-, and third-order effects of decisions spanning marketing, inventory, accounts payable, and more. The role supports corporate development including mergers & acquisitions, capital raises, and partnerships, involving modeling, negotiation, and decision making. It also includes leading the preparation of strategic financial reporting, conducting ongoing financial forecasting, and owning special projects and analyses end-to-end with little direction. The Associate will play a key role in the annual budgeting and forecasting process, analyzing financial and operational data to explain variance drivers and provide recommendations, and developing business analytics and KPIs via dashboards. The role requires summarizing analytical results clearly and concisely and continuously developing and innovating reporting and analytics.

Requirements

Demonstrated financial acumen and analytical experience delivering results-driven strategic recommendations, complex business modeling in excel, and creating meaningful analysis to drive key business decisions
3+ years of experience in Private Equity, Investment Banking, Strategy Consulting, or other strategic finance or corporate development roles
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in business, management, or a related field
Excellent communication and presentation skills, highly organized, exceptional attention to detail, strong and proven project management capabilities and stakeholder relationship development, and able to manage competing priorities
Comfort managing through ambiguity and working with limited data
Advanced MS Excel user with experience building complex financial models and dashboards
An innate sense of curiosity about different brands within the market, as well as trends in the market and AI
Ability to thrive in an in-person work environment but also effective in collaborating across multiple teams located in multiple geographies
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred
Prior experience in a new business or startup highly desired

Responsibilities

Solve problems across the entire business, not just finance—digging into marketing, site merchandising, product development, promotions, and inventory to surface insights and drive better decisions across all of our brands
Leverage AI tools to work faster and smarter alongside traditional analytical methods
Solve complex, often non-finance problems and think through the first-, second-, and third-order effects of decisions spanning marketing, inventory, accounts payable, and everything in between
Support corporate development including mergers & acquisitions, capital raises, and partnerships including modeling, negotiation, and decision making
Lead preparation of strategic financial reporting and conduct ongoing financial forecasting to provide management clear visibility into the company's financial performance and outlook
Own special projects, analyses, and outcomes end-to-end with little to no direction or supervision, exercising sound judgment and strong decision-making to take ambiguous problems from question to recommendation
Play a key role in our annual budgeting and forecasting process, collaborating across all departments and ensuring alignment with our corporate strategy
Analyze financial and operational data across all of our brands to explain variance drivers and provide recommendations for improvement with a strong understanding of our strategic priorities for each business unit and overall corporate strategy
Develop and keep various business analytics across functions including marketing, finance, operations and development KPIs, via sophisticated dashboards and performance tracking
Summarize analytical results clearly and concisely to support recommendations and inform key decisions in resource allocations
Continuously develop and innovate around both standard, ad-hoc reporting and analytics