Ripple Foods- Sr FP&A Manager

Our client, Ripple Foods, is hiring an Sr. FP&A Manager!

The Sr. FP&A Manager will play a key role in driving financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analysis across the company. This person will partner closely with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting to provide visibility into business performance, support decision-making, and improve financial discipline across the organization.

This role is ideal for someone who can operate both strategically and tactically: building models, owning forecast processes, analyzing performance drivers, and translating complex financial data into clear insights for leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Forecasting

- Support the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes.

- Help maintain financial models for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, cash flow, and scenario planning.

- Develop forecast assumptions in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting.

- Lead variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year.

- Identify risks, opportunities, and key business drivers impacting financial performance.

Revenue, Customer & Channel Analysis

- Analyze sales performance by customer, channel, SKU, product line, and region.

- Partner with Sales to evaluate customer-level profitability, volume trends, pricing, deductions, trade spend, and promotional ROI.

- Support monthly customer and channel reviews with actionable insights.

- Help improve forecast accuracy by connecting sales forecasts to demand planning, shipment trends, customer plans, and historical performance.

- Evaluate new customer opportunities, and pricing changes.

Gross Margin & Operations Finance

- Monitor gross margin performance by SKU, customer, and channel.

- Analyze COGS, freight, warehousing, manufacturing, co-packer costs, ingredient costs, packaging, and yield variances.

- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to understand cost drivers and margin improvement opportunities.

- Support standard cost updates, cost savings initiatives, and margin bridge analysis.

- Provide financial support for new product launches, reformulations, and operational changes.

Operating Expense Management

- Own departmental expense reporting and forecasting across key functions.

- Partner with budget owners to review spend, identify variances, and update forecasts.

- Support headcount planning, marketing spend analysis, G&A tracking, and department-level accountability.

- Improve visibility into fixed versus variable costs and discretionary spending.

Reporting & Leadership Support

- Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for executive leadership.

- Develop clear dashboards, KPIs, and financial summaries that highlight business performance.

- Support board reporting, investor materials, lender reporting, and strategic projects as needed.

- Turn financial data into practical business recommendations.

- Improve reporting cadence, data accuracy, and financial storytelling.

Process & Systems Improvement

- Improve FP&A processes, templates, models, and reporting tools.

- Partner with Accounting to ensure actuals are accurate, timely, and aligned with reporting needs.

- Support implementation or optimization of planning, ERP, BI, and reporting systems.

- Help build scalable finance infrastructure as the company grows.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.

- 6+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, accounting, or business analytics.

- CPG, food and beverage, manufacturing, or consumer products experience required.

- Strong understanding of P&L management, gross margin, trade spend, COGS, inventory, and operating expenses.

- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.

- Experience with ERP, planning, and reporting systems