FP & A Director

Director of FP&A | Food & Beverage

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We are partnering with a confidential, mid-sized food and beverage company seeking a hands-on Director of FP&A.

This is a newly created role reporting directly to the CFO. The company is experiencing rapid growth and needs a finance leader who understands FP&A, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, commercial finance, manufacturing, and systems.

This is a build-out role for someone who can step in quickly, partner with senior leadership, and help create the planning, reporting, and decision-support infrastructure needed for the next stage of growth.

Role Details

Location: Bay Area, CA
Schedule: Hybrid
Expected office presence: Monday–Thursday in office, Friday remote
Employment type: Full-time
Department: Finance
Base salary range: $165,000–$195,000
Additional compensation: Bonus opportunity and equity eligibility
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), bonus opportunity, and equity eligibility

Company Profile

Confidential mid-sized food and beverage company
Rapidly growing consumer products business
Strong national retail distribution
Products sold through grocery, club, mass, natural, and e-commerce channels
Entering a major growth phase with expanded U.S. manufacturing capacity
Entrepreneurial environment with increasing executive, systems, and reporting needs

Why This Role Matters

The company is scaling quickly and needs stronger FP&A infrastructure
Finance needs deeper planning, reporting, commercial finance, and decision-support capability
This person will help build the FP&A function for the next stage of growth
The role has direct CFO access and regular exposure to senior leadership
The company needs someone who already understands the food and beverage or CPG business model

What You’ll Do

Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
Build and maintain customer, channel, SKU, and margin models
Own customer-level and channel-level P&L analysis
Analyze gross-to-net revenue, trade spend, broker commissions, pricing, customer mix, product mix, landed cost, freight, COGS, and contribution margin
Support pricing, promotion, customer profitability, and price-pack architecture decisions
Prepare executive and Board-level financial reporting
Build KPI dashboards and improve visibility into business performance
Partner with the CFO, CEO, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting
Support financial planning for expanded U.S. manufacturing capacity
Improve systems, reporting, forecasting accuracy, and access to data
Use tools such as NetSuite, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, planning systems, AI, automation, or similar platforms to make reporting more scalable
Manage and develop one FP&A team member while remaining hands-on with models, analysis, and deliverables

What You’ll Bring

Food and beverage finance experience is highly desired
Broader consumer packaged goods experience will be considered
10+ years of progressive FP&A experience
10+ years of food and beverage or CPG finance experience preferred
15+ years of total finance experience preferred
Director-level FP&A experience or close equivalent
Strong customer, SKU, channel, margin, and profitability analysis experience
Experience with gross-to-net, trade spend, broker commissions, distributor margins, retailer margins, and pricing
Experience supporting major retail, grocery, club, mass, natural, or e-commerce customers
Manufacturing finance experience, including COGS, inventory, freight, landed cost, yield, production variances, plant performance, or supply chain cost
Strong financial modeling, Excel, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and KPI reporting skills
Board reporting or senior leadership reporting experience
Strong systems background
NetSuite experience preferred, but not required
Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Dynamics 365, SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Adaptive, Vena, Asana, AI tools, or similar platforms preferred
Experience building dashboards, reporting tools, forecasting processes, or planning infrastructure from scratch
Ability to work in a smaller, fast-moving, high-growth company where systems and processes are still being built

Best Fit

Strong food and beverage or CPG finance background
Experience in a smaller or high-growth company
Strategic but hands-on
Comfortable building models and doing detailed analysis
Able to partner with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Accounting, and executive leadership
Comfortable managing one direct report while still doing individual contributor work
Collaborative, accountable, and comfortable building process in real time
Able to operate without a large support team

Less Aligned Backgrounds

Limited hands-on FP&A model-building experience
Primarily oversight-level FP&A experience with limited individual contributor work
Limited food and beverage or CPG finance experience
Limited exposure to customer P&L, trade spend, pricing, margins, or manufacturing finance
Preference for remote-first work, since regular Bay Area office presence is expected
Preference for maintaining existing processes rather than building new planning, reporting, and decision-support infrastructure

Interview Process

Initial conversation with the CFO
Additional meetings may include People, Accounting, Sales, Operations, executive leadership, and founders
Final steps may include an Excel-based case study to assess analytical thinking, modeling ability, and presentation style

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

This role is primarily performed in an office environment
Regular computer and standard office equipment use is required
Regular communication with internal and external stakeholders is required
The role may require sitting for extended periods
The role may occasionally require standing, walking, or lifting up to 15 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation

Pay Transparency

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $165,000–$195,000. Final compensation will depend on job-related factors, including experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
The company does not request or consider salary history in making compensation decisions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The company is an equal opportunity employer. xsgimln Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, reproductive health decisions, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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