Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Career Now Brands • Royal Oak, MI

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

Career Now Brands is seeking a hands-on Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis to support company decision-making and build its financial planning and reporting capabilities. The role owns budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, client and account profitability analysis, cash flow forecasting, and ROI measurement. It will evaluate business performance and investment opportunities, identify industry and market changes, and translate analysis into actionable recommendations for leadership.

The Manager reports to the President and works directly with the leadership team, sales and marketing leaders, accounting partners, and the data team. The position offers the opportunity to grow into broader finance ownership as the company scales. It is based at the company’s downtown Royal Oak headquarters and requires Eastern Time Zone working hours.

Career Now Brands provides marketing solutions for recruitment and enrollment in the trucking, education, and job distribution industries. Its products include CDL Job Now, Career School Now, and RocketPost. The company describes its renovated headquarters as a modern office in a former industrial warehouse and identifies Fearless, Accountable, Productive, and Resourceful as its core values.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, consulting, investment banking, or a comparable analytical finance role, including end-to-end forecast ownership.
• Advanced Excel financial modeling skills, including driver-based operating models, scenario analysis, and maintainable unit economics.
• Strong SQL skills, or demonstrated ability to develop them quickly; comfort querying a data warehouse and working in BI tools.
• Experience analyzing a recurring-revenue or services business, including cohorts, retention and churn, revenue per account, and contribution margin.
• Working knowledge of GAAP-basis financials and monthly close sufficient to partner credibly with accountants.
• Track record of influencing decisions by bringing recommendations, not only reporting variances.
• Ability to work Eastern Time Zone hours.
• Ability to communicate analysis as a clear, actionable point of view for non-financial audiences.
• Ability to own the accuracy of financial information and the quality of decisions it supports.
• Ability to reach defensible conclusions using imperfect data and automate work that should not be manual.
• Ability to distinguish analysis that changes a decision from analysis that is merely impressive.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in marketing services, media buying, staffing and recruiting, or HR technology.
• Experience with HubSpot, Snowflake, or Tableau.
• Board-level reporting experience.
• M&A or due diligence exposure.
• CPA, CFA, or MBA; welcomed but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and monthly variance analysis; explain the underlying performance story to leadership.
• Build and maintain client- and account-level profitability analysis, including revenue, media spend, delivery cost, and contribution margin by client, brand, and product.
• Analyze performance against plan across revenue, active logos, revenue per account, retention, churn, and unit economics such as CPL, cost per hire, and media margin.
• Develop business cases and ROI frameworks for projects, products, and headcount, then measure actual returns against the original assumptions.
• Partner with sales and marketing leadership on pricing, deal structure, quota modeling, and commission modeling.
• Produce monthly and quarterly leadership and board reporting packages, including KPI dashboards and accompanying narrative.
• Own cash flow forecasting and work with accounting partners through monthly close to ensure numbers are timely, reconciled, and defensible.
• Turn data from HubSpot, Snowflake, QuickBooks, and advertising platforms into trusted financial and operating metrics in partnership with the data team.
• Identify and size opportunities, including underpriced services, underserved segments, adjacent verticals, partnerships, and acquisition targets.
• Track industry, competitive, and macro trends—including freight cycles, driver capacity, labor markets, recruitment marketing, and AI—and translate them into implications for the plan.
• Improve the financial operating cadence through cleaner inputs and fewer one-off spreadsheets.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed