FP&A Manager

Description

“Let goodness, fairness and most importantly, love prevail in business; profits will inevitably follow.” – NK Chaudhary, founder

Jaipur living is a socially conscious luxury brand with a passion for people, products, and design. A differentiated challenger brand, Jaipur Living is known for its beautiful rugs and textiles. Jaipur Living products can be found in the finest homes, and the company prides itself in providing only the highest quality products, a transparent and ethical supply chain, and a distinctively thoughtful customer experience, with personalized support and custom offerings.

Headquartered in a northwestern suburb of Atlanta, Jaipur Living designs, manufactures, and distributes rugs and other textiles through its extensive network of high-end interior designers and design firms, national retailers, and third-party ecommerce partners. The company continues to grow rapidly, experiencing double-digit annual growth every year for the past decade. This growth can be attributed to the care Jaipur Living puts not only in their customers, but their employees as well. Employees at Jaipur Living are encouraged to collaborate, think independently, and stretch the creative process to develop new ways of marketing and distributing their products around the world.

In August 2022, the company opened a new studio adjacent to its headquarters that, at over 17,000 square feet, functions as a communal space for design professionals to visit to experience Jaipur Living’s products. The studio encapsules not only our beautiful product but also ways Jaipur makes lives beautiful through The Jaipur Rugs Foundation.

What we do for our team members:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Company Paid Holidays, PTO, Parental Involvement Leave, Maternity/Paternity Leave, EAP, No Cost Employee Medical Plan, Vision, Dental, and Company Paid Life Insurance. We also include a match on retirement (401K/Roth).
• Career Development: We're committed to providing growth for career development within the company, supporting our team members' aspirations with a well-defined succession plan that includes a variety of training and development opportunities.
• Pet-Friendly Workplace: We welcome your furry friends! Our 'Bring Your Dogs to Work' policy creates a pet-friendly atmosphere, allowing our team members to enjoy the companionship of their dogs during the workday.
• Wellness Support: Not only do we support an active lifestyle with our on-site basketball court and yoga studio, but we host quarterly mental health events to assist in creating a well-rounded work-life harmony for our team members.
• Sustainability Efforts: Reuse, Renew, and Refresh by joining our Green Team! Responsible for harvesting from the organic community garden, donating goods to local pet shelters and schools, creating educational workshops, leading nature walks, and much more, they promote well-being through sustainable practices.

Location: Acworth Headquarters Travel Requirements: 0%

Position Level: Intermediate Position Type: Full time – Salary (Exempt)

Our Values

Empowerment • Inclusiveness • Responsibility • Progressive

Learn more about our company story here: https://www.jaipurliving.com/the-jaipur-living-story

The Jaipur Rugs Foundation

Since 2004, the Jaipur Rugs Foundation has worked to improve the lives of rug-weaving artisans in India. This is done through training, skills development, and social interventions. By focusing on the ideas and solutions that create social value, the Foundation supports the dignity and heritage of these traditional artisans, believing that healthy and sustainable communities are key to the survival of traditional rug weaving. Jaipur Living has made ethical and socially conscious global citizenship the foundation of its business. Through social initiatives and the Jaipur Rugs Foundation, the company supports a supplier ecosystem without a middleman of more than 40,000 artisans in 700 villages across India by providing them with a livable wage, access to health care, leadership education, and opportunities for personal growth and development. Combining time-honored techniques and of-the-moment trends, every Jaipur Living product is as ethically and responsibly made as it is beautiful. Learn more about the Jaipur Rugs Foundation here: https://www.jaipurrugs.org/

Overview

As the FP&A Manager, you will play a crucial role in helping Jaipur Living achieve our ambitious financial goals. You will be responsible for overseeing the monthly and annual financial and budgeting processes, conducting thorough analyses (including monthly variance analyses), and collaborating with key stakeholders to drive financial performance and strategic decision-making. This is a highly visible role requiring the candidate to partner closely with business leads at various levels and drive fiscal responsibility and accountability across the organization. This position requires a proactive, innovative individual who excels in a fast-paced environment and can communicate effectively.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Partner with the CFO to lead the corporate financial planning and analysis process, including budgeting, forecasting, re-forcasting, planning models and systems, and long-range planning
• Work with all department leaders with P&L responsibility to budget, forecast, analyze and report on key expenses; update forecasts regularly by reviewing with department leaders and evaluating changes to the business, variances to plan and evolving strategy
• Drive key reporting processes, including preparation of monthly and annual financial reporting packages as well as business channel and department P&Ls
• Help grow the Finance organization’s reporting capabilities including cost allocation and segmentation, creating the right data pipelines with cross-functional leaders, and developing insights
• Support the CFO and other business leaders to deliver ad hoc analysis, inclusive of strategic findings and recommendations, to the executive team on the existing core business as well as new initiatives and opportunities
• In close partnership with the CFO, assist with the development and launch of new tools to track KPIs, facilitate reporting, and share information across the company. Automate reporting leveraging BI tools where possible
• Provide support to the Accounting department during the monthly close process, including proper expense timing and coding and adjusting the financial models as needed
• Acquire and maintain a thorough understanding of the business strategies, issues, and profitability drivers to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risk
• Communicate effectively to all employees from non-finance personnel to executive leadership

Qualifications

Skills & Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• 5-7 years of related business experience, with a preference for a background in FP&A, investment banking, corporate finance, strategy or consulting with strong financial experience
• Advanced spreadsheet analysis and financial modeling skills are required
• Basic accounting knowledge, including all dynamics between the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement that are critical for 3-statement cash modeling
• Ability to build relationships across an organization and be collaborative and inclusive when working with others – cultural fit is vital for this role
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy in work
• Experience with financial systems and software, such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. Basic SQL/querying and data manipulation skills preferred
• Strong work ethic and prioritization skills; proven ability to be successful in a fast-paced and rapidly changing work environment
• Basic project management skills

Physical Requirements:

• Remaining in a seated position for long periods of time
• Standing is to remain on one’s feet in an upright position without moving about
• The ability to alternate between sitting and standing is present when a worker has the flexibility to choose between sitting or standing as needed when this need cannot be accommodated by schedules breaks and/or lunch period
• Lifting and transporting items that could weight up to 25 pounds
• Entering text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work to impart oral information to clients and talent and convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately and quickly
• The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds such as in person and telephone
• Clarity of vision to see computer screens and workspace.

Employment at Jaipur is contingent on the completion of a criminal background check and a drug screen, with the results being negative. Jaipur employees are subject to pre-employment, post-injury, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, and random testing for illegal drug usage. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of this position at any time.