Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Career Now Brands•Royal Oak, MI

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Career Now Brands is seeking a hands-on Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis to support decision-making and build the company’s financial planning and reporting capabilities. The role owns budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, cash flow forecasting, and client- and account-level profitability analysis. It will evaluate project and investment returns, support commercial decisions, identify growth opportunities, and translate industry and business trends into implications for the company’s plans. The position reports to the President and works directly with the leadership team, sales and marketing leaders, accounting partners, and the data team. It is based at the company’s downtown Royal Oak headquarters, with a hybrid arrangement and Eastern Time Zone working hours. The role may grow into broader finance ownership as the company scales.

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 unit economics models designed to be maintained and trusted.
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 the monthly close sufficient to partner credibly with accountants; CPA, CFA, or MBA is welcome but not required.
A record of influencing decisions with recommendations, rather than only reporting results.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to turn analysis into actionable guidance for non-financial audiences.
Ability to work Eastern Time Zone hours.
Commercial curiosity and willingness to spend time with sales, media, and operations.
Fearlessness in presenting and defending findings when data does not support a plan.
Accountability for the accuracy of numbers and the quality of decisions they inform.
Resourcefulness in reaching defensible answers with imperfect data and automating work that should not be manual.
Productivity and judgment in distinguishing decision-changing analysis from analysis that only looks impressive.

Nice To Haves

Experience in marketing services, media buying, staffing and recruiting, or HR tech.
Experience with HubSpot, Snowflake, or Tableau.
Board-level reporting experience.
M&A or diligence exposure.
CPA, CFA, or MBA.

Responsibilities

Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and monthly variance analysis, and explain results to leadership.
Build and maintain client- and account-level profitability analyses covering revenue, media spend, delivery cost, and contribution margin by client, brand, and product.
Analyze performance against plan, including 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 realized returns against expectations.
Partner with sales and marketing leadership on pricing, deal structure, quota modeling, and commission modeling.
Produce monthly and quarterly reporting packages for leadership and the board, including KPI dashboards and accompanying narratives.
Own cash flow forecasting and work with accounting partners through the 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 such as underpriced services, underserved segments, adjacent verticals, partnerships, and acquisition targets.
Track industry, competitive, and macroeconomic trends and translate them into implications for the company’s plan.
Improve the financial operating cadence through cleaner inputs and fewer one-off spreadsheets.