Manager, Finance & Strategy (Marketplace)

Collectors•Santa Ana, CA

4d•$115,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Collectors is a leading creator of innovative technology providing value-added services for collectors worldwide, grading, authenticating, vaulting, and selling collectibles. The Finance & Strategy team enables decision-making with key financial insights, partnering with senior business leaders to support operational management and facilitate strategic decision-making. This role specifically supports the rapidly expanding businesses in the collectibles marketplace space, owning core planning and reporting processes such as annual operating plans, long-range plans, consolidated expense budgeting and forecasting, headcount planning, BU-level allocation processes, and planning systems. The role also contributes analysis for quarterly forecasts, annual operating plans, and executive/board reporting. The position reports to the Senior Director, Marketplace Finance & Strategy and is based at the Santa Ana, CA headquarters or Jersey City office with a hybrid work schedule.

Requirements

5–8 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, investing, or finance operations experience, ideally in a high-growth or multi-entity environment.
Experience partnering directly with function or business leaders on their budgets, and holding them to plan.
Advanced Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling skills, including driver-based models.
Comfortable building with an AI-first mindset, while also working in financial systems and tools (e.g., NetSuite, Workday); quick to learn new platforms, with strong data quality instincts.
Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to summarize a complex result for a senior audience.
Process-oriented operator with high ownership and operating discipline – you leave processes measurably better than you found them.
Able to influence and align partners across a matrixed organization without direct authority.
Hands-on and willing to roll up your sleeves; strong attention to detail paired with structured problem solving.
Solid working knowledge of GAAP and financial management processes.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a consumer goods or digital marketplace business with meaningful operational components (e.g., CPG, e-commerce), with working knowledge of marketplace unit economics.
MBA, CPA, or CFA.
Experience standing up or materially rebuilding a planning process, rather than inheriting a mature one.
Experience directing the work of an analyst on shared deliverables.
Passionate about collectibles and/or sports.

Responsibilities

Partner with Marketplace business leaders to improve operating teams’ understanding of their financial levers/performance and optimize long-term strategy.
Communicate key financial and operational metrics to create transparency into performance and inform strategic and operational decisions.
Support strategic long-range planning (LRP) and scenario analysis for growth investments and strategic decisions of the business.
Track business performance against budget via monthly forecast updates, and provide transparency to business leaders via reporting and live reviews.
Manage the annual operating plan (AOP) cycle and quarterly planning cycles across Marketplace business units (PowerPacks, Consignment, PSA Exchange, Lending, Vault) – templates, submissions, iteration with BU leaders, and consolidation into the plan.
Contribute to the quarterly consolidated forecast – own Marketplace GMV, revenue, and OpEx inputs, review consolidated output for accuracy, and draft the accompanying analysis.
Prepare the analysis and draft narrative behind quarterly board materials, board books, and executive reporting packages.
Build clear, credible materials for an executive audience, with a bias toward over-communication when results diverge from plan.