Senior Manager, FP&A – Global Marketing

SharkNinja•Needham, MA

6d•$105,300 - $203,300

About The Position

The Senior Manager, FP&A – Global Marketing leads the finance team supporting SharkNinja’s Global Marketing function. The role oversees forecasting, budgeting, actuals, scenario planning, and financial recommendations, while analyzing investments across the marketing funnel, including brand media, affiliate marketing, performance marketing, and campaigns. It helps shape investment strategy, assess channel performance, guide trade-offs, and advise senior leaders with clear, decision-ready perspectives. The position combines strategic partnership with hands-on financial execution. It owns planning and reporting, leadership narratives, data integrity, and controllership, working closely with Accounting to maintain accurate financial statements and current documented controls. It also leads and develops analysts, improves planning and review processes, and builds models, reporting automation, and data pipelines. The role is expected to use AI tools in daily work and continually automate repetitive processes. The successful candidate brings progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, people leadership, strong planning and reporting expertise, and experience analyzing marketing or commercial investments. The position emphasizes clear communication, sound judgment, agility, collaboration, and a builder’s mindset.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
7–10 years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience.
Experience leading, coaching, and developing a team of analysts.
Mastery of planning and reporting rhythms, including budget, forecast, long-range plan, and monthly close.
Experience analyzing marketing or commercial investments.
Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
Experience with visualization tools, ERP systems, and data management tools.
Hands-on AI fluency, including using AI tools in personal workflows and being able to demonstrate what was built with them.
A track record of influencing senior leaders with concise, decision-ready recommendations.

Nice To Haves

MBA.
Consumer products experience.
Retail or e-commerce experience.

Responsibilities

Advise senior leaders in Marketing, Commercial, and regional teams on investment choices, expected returns, and trade-offs.
Lead finance discussions with senior leadership and present analysis with a clear point of view.
Build and pressure-test investment scenarios and provide recommendations.
Improve how the marketing business is reviewed by developing new P&L views and metrics and identifying opportunities to free up time and deliver value.
Own forecasting, budgeting, actuals, and variance analysis for global marketing investments.
Own monthly and quarterly leadership narratives explaining what changed, why it changed, and recommended next steps.
Maintain data integrity and controllership in partnership with Accounting, including accurate financial statements, current documented controls, and discreet handling of sensitive financial information.
Provide leaders with readily available, self-service information to support timely discussions and decisions.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of analysts through clear priorities, ongoing feedback, and development paths.
Foster collaboration, constructive challenge, accountability, and shared ownership, and establish the team's rhythm for planning cycles, reviews, and handoffs.
Translate complex financial information into concise recommendations for executive and cross-functional audiences.
Use AI tools to accelerate analysis and recurring deliverables and pressure-test assumptions.
Build models, reporting automation, and data pipelines, showing results early.
Continuously improve processes by automating manual and repetitive work.