Finance Manager, FP&A - Commercial

SharkNinja•Needham, MA

6d•$85,800 - $179,400

About The Position

The Finance Manager, FP&A – Commercial leads financial support for SharkNinja’s Direct to Consumer, Social Commerce, and Customer Service businesses. The role partners with leaders to guide investment and operating decisions, manage forecasts and actuals, assess channel performance, and improve financial outcomes. It covers variable cost management, fee structures, joint business plans, margin improvements, new investment opportunities, and Customer Service productivity while balancing cost and service quality. The Finance Manager owns forecast cycles and reviews, monthly and quarterly actuals-versus-forecast narratives, data accuracy, controls coordination with accounting, and day-to-day finance relationships with business leaders. The role will also develop financial management capabilities for these channels, including new P&L views, deeper analytics, and metrics such as contribution margin by platform, customer acquisition cost, and cost per contact. The position emphasizes proactive ownership, clear communication with senior audiences, and use of AI and automation to accelerate recurring work, modeling, scenario analysis, and process improvement. SharkNinja describes its culture as AI-native, innovation-focused, and driven by an “Outrageously Extraordinary” mindset.

Requirements

5–7 years of FP&A or finance experience, including business partnering and variance analysis.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Experience in consumer products, retail, e-commerce, or digital channels.
Strong understanding of unit economics and channel performance, including margin, cost, and promotional effects.
Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
Experience with visualization tools, ERP systems, and data management tools.
Hands-on fluency with AI tools in personal workflow and ability to demonstrate what has been built with them.
Clear written and verbal communication skills with senior audiences.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree.
Background in Direct to Consumer, social commerce, or contact center operations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Finance partner to leaders across Direct to Consumer, Social Commerce, and Customer Service; explain cost-structure changes and recommend actions.
Facilitate trade-off and investment decision discussions and drive teams toward positive outcomes.
Hold business leaders accountable for commitments and help them deliver.
Own the forecast cycle and reviews for assigned channels, from first draft through final sign-off.
Own monthly and quarterly actuals-versus-forecast narratives, explaining what changed, why it changed, and what leaders should do next.
Provide leaders with readily available, self-service information to support faster discussions and decisions.
Maintain accurate data for the area and partner with accounting teams on appropriate controls.
Act as the main Finance contact for assigned channels and own day-to-day relationships and follow-through with business leaders.
Anticipate and initiate deliverables, complete them without waiting to be asked, and manage priorities while communicating conflicts clearly.
Build financial management capabilities for DTC, Social Commerce, and Customer Service, including new P&L views, deeper analytics, and metrics such as contribution margin by platform, customer acquisition cost, and cost per contact.
Use reporting to drive meaningful financial improvements.
Challenge existing processes and develop new approaches that free up time and deliver business value.
Use AI tools in daily work for recurring deliverables, first-pass models, and scenarios; automate repeat work and build tools needed by the channels.
Continuously move manual and repetitive work into automated processes.