Finance Manager (f/m/d)

If you’re ambitious, love food, and want to be part of a company filled with opportunities, keep reading.

Marley Spoon is a direct-to-consumer manufacturing business with a waste free supply chain. We deliver top quality fresh ingredients in the exact quantities required with chef-designed easy-to-cook recipes, to thousands of households across the globe. Together we build brands customers love. Currently we operate various brands that are serving households in the US, Europe, and Australia: Marley Spoon, Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon, and Dinnerly.

So, ready to cook up an application?

Our Finance team is looking for a Finance Manager who will be responsible for the FP&A, Controlling and Accounting functions. They will serve as a business partner to the global leadership team and the global finance team.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver timely and comprehensive analyses of business performance, particularly around drivers of Contribution Margin (food, manufacturing and logistics costs).

• Deliver regular KPI reporting to provide transparency on business performance.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Assess innovation and margin accretive projects (i.e., new box setups, meal occasions, adjacent categories).
• Lead month-end close for all financial statements in the region.
• Partner closely with Marketing to help drive Revenue performance and topline forecasts.
• Deliver ad hoc strategic analyses.
• Anticipate and plan for business risks in collaboration with the regions’ business functions.
• Provide input to Investor Relations communications as needed.
• Influence P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow statements.
• Manage the invoice approval matrix across all functions to ensure empowered and accountable teams, and revise and approve regular vendor payment runs.
• Influence Controllership team in the management of the balance sheet and inventory.
• Oversee budgeting for the region across all functions, including at quarterly and annual planning and forecast periods.
• Serve as a business partner to the overall business.
• Partner closely with the regional teams in building, assessing and prioritizing CapEx projects.
• Identify process improvements for financial planning and interactions with other functions and work with the Head of Transformation on their implementation.
• Collaborate in payroll, compensation and headcount planning with regional Heads of People Operations.

Required:

• Minimum 7 years practical work experience, including in a strategic finance capacity.
• Prior experience in Financial Analysis & Planning or Business Controllership roles.
• Solid experience managing/understanding the P&L and business context and understanding of performance drivers.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Fluent English.
• Project management skills.
• Experience leading and managing a team of direct reports accompanied by a coaching/developing leadership mindset.
• Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills, including ability to review complex data, pulling out key insights & translating into concise communications, as well as anticipate risk.
• Ability to liaise confidently and assertively in an entrepreneurial environment whilst maintaining goodwill with stakeholders.
• Assertive, independent and self-sufficient, with the ability to cope effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Commercial and financial acumen and an ability to understand the needs of diverse stakeholders.

Preferred:

• MBA / Financial Certifications / Postgraduate finance work.
• Knowledge of Balance Sheet/Cash Flow Statement.
• Prior experience in Direct-to-Consumer/Ecommerce scaleups or high growth FMCG companies.
• Management consulting experience in combination with client-side experience.

Germany:

• Flexible working hours; hybrid work framework (remote or office).
• 30 paid days off per year.
• 5 training days per year.
• Possibility to be a part of Marley Spoon’s success with an outstanding equity program.
• Corporate pension scheme (we add 20% on top of your contribution).
• Discounts for Marley Spoon and/or Dinnerly boxes delivered to your doorstep.
• An open, diverse culture with over 50 nationalities of friendly, fun-loving foodies!
• A beautiful office by the canal in buzzing Kreuzberg.

Portugal:

• Flexible working hours; hybrid work policy (remote or office).

• 22 annual leave days and +2 days for every year of tenure (up to a combined maximum of 28).
• 5 training days per year.
• Private health and dental insurance provided by Allianz.
• Food allowance of 7.62 euros per worked day.
• Possibility to be a part of Marley Spoon’s success with an outstanding equity program.
• 24/7 confidential employee assistance program.
• An open, diverse culture with over 50 nationalities of friendly, fun-loving foodies.
• A cozy office in the heart of Lisbon.