Manager, Corporate Finance & Strategy

Collaborative Solutions • Santa Ana, CA

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About The Position

Collectors is seeking a Manager to join its Corporate Finance & Strategy team. The role owns core planning and reporting processes, including annual and long-range plans, consolidated expense budgeting and forecasting, headcount planning, corporate allocations, and planning systems. It contributes analysis for quarterly forecasts, the annual operating plan, and executive and board reporting. This is a hands-on role focused on improving planning processes and systems, working between detailed financial models and executive-ready summaries.

The Manager works closely with the Director of Corporate Finance & Strategy and partners with a Senior Financial Analyst on shared close and forecast deliverables. The role reports to the Senior Director, Corporate Finance & Strategy. It may be based at the Santa Ana, California corporate headquarters or remotely from San Francisco, California; the company notes that in-person collaboration is valued and will be discussed during recruiting.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, investing, or finance operations; ideally in a high-growth or multi-entity environment.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of recurring planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, close support, and variance analysis, as well as stakeholder management.
• Experience partnering directly with function or business leaders on budgets and holding them to plan.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills and financial modeling skills, including driver-based models.
• Strong experience with Adaptive Insights (Workday Adaptive Planning) or similar systems, and comfort with or appetite for administrator-level ownership.
• Comfort building with an AI-first mindset and working with financial systems and tools such as NetSuite and Workday; ability to learn platforms quickly and strong data-quality instincts.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex results for a senior audience.
• Process-oriented approach, high ownership, and operating discipline, with a record of improving processes.
• Ability to influence and align partners across a matrixed organization without direct authority.
• Hands-on approach, attention to detail, and structured problem-solving skills.
• Solid working knowledge of GAAP and financial management processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, CPA, or CFA.
• Adaptive Insights administration experience, including model building, integrations, or dimensional redesign.
• Experience standing up or materially rebuilding a planning process rather than inheriting a mature one.
• Experience directing an analyst’s work on shared deliverables.
• Familiarity with headcount planning, HRIS data such as Workday, and allocation frameworks.
• Experience in consumer, e-commerce, or marketplace businesses with meaningful operational components.
• Passion for collectibles and/or sports.

Responsibilities

• Manage annual operating plan and quarterly planning cycles for corporate functions, including templates, submissions, iteration with function leaders, and consolidation.
• Support strategic long-range planning and scenario analysis for growth investments and strategic decisions.
• Contribute to the quarterly consolidated forecast by owning corporate operating expense and allocation inputs, reviewing consolidated output for accuracy, and drafting analysis.
• Maintain the quarterly pacing model and support consolidated cash flow forecasting, improving the mechanics and accuracy over time.
• Own assigned monthly and quarterly close work in partnership with Accounting, including variance analysis, close metrics, and leadership reporting.
• Prepare analysis and draft narratives for quarterly board materials, board books, and executive reporting packages.
• Build clear and credible executive-facing materials, communicating when results diverge from plan.
• Own company-wide headcount planning and the headcount approval process, reconciling the plan, approved requisitions, and actuals.
• Partner with People/HRIS and Talent Acquisition on Workday data integrity and own Finance’s headcount view for forecasting and reporting.
• Improve owned FP&A processes by replacing manual work with durable process and system design.
• Partner with the Senior Financial Analyst on shared close and forecast deliverables, providing direction and review in areas owned.
• Help maintain the Finance calendar and ensure Finance and cross-functional partners meet deliverable deadlines.
• Serve as primary administrator of Adaptive Insights (Workday Adaptive Planning), managing model structure, dimensionality, security, integrations, and data integrity across close and forecast cycles.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance enrollment for full-time employees.
• Fertility, commuter, and educational assistance benefits for full-time employees.
• 401(k) matching plan.
• Flexible time off for salaried employees.
• Ten company-paid holidays for regular, full-time employees.
• Discounts on select grading services for approved submissions.
• Flexible schedules offered by many teams.
• Celebrations, holiday events, and team-building activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager