Strategic Finance Manager

Lemonade completely reinvented how insurance works. As a customer-centric tech company, we created an insurance experience that is smart, instant, and delightful.

At Lemonade, you’ll be working with a group of like-minded makers, who get a kick out of moving fast and delivering great products. We surround ourselves with some of the smartest, most motivated, creative people who are filled with positive energy and good karma.

Unlike most publicly traded companies, we’re nimble and efficient. We take pride in the fact that we still think and operate like a startup. We don’t care much about titles and hierarchy and instead focus on innovation, bold moves, and challenging the status quo.

We’re built as a lean, data-driven organization that relies on a common understating of objectives and goals to provide teams with autonomy and ownership. We don’t like spending our days in meetings and we skip committees altogether. At Lemonade, there’s no such thing as going over someone’s head. We have zero tolerance for bureaucracy, office politics, and lean-back personalities.

As a Public Benefit Corporation and a certified B-Corp, we deliver environmental and social impact using our products and tech. Through our Giveback program, we partner with organizations such as the ACLU, New Story, The Humane Society, Malala Fund, American Red Cross, 360.org, charity: water, and dozens of others, and have donated millions towards reforestation, education, animal rights, LGBTQ+ causes, access to water, and more.

We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Manager to drive cost alignment with budget owners and our forecasting models.

Your focus will be on team collaboration, process automation, transparency, and achieving greater efficiency within the company’s financial ecosystem. Acting as a key contributor to the strategic financial direction and reporting for a public company within the highly regulated insurance industry, you’ll play a major role in daily financial operations, helping us align our expected costs forecasts.

The starting base range for this position is between $125,000 and $150,000 per year. Base pay is one component of Lemonade's total compensation package, which will also include equity in the form of RSUs, access to healthcare benefits, 401(k) plan with company match, robust PTO, parental leave, and more.

In this role you’ll

• Help develop and drive FP&A strategy, approach, and deliverables
• Own the ‘cost’ side of the income statement, collaborate with all Budget Owners, including Procurement, PeopleOps and Talent Acquisition teams to derive a best forecast for headcount/payroll and all operating expenses on a weekly basis
• Oversee and facilitate ongoing BVs via Slack with department leadership for cost calibration as well as formal presentations of mid-quarter formal check-in’s
• Oversee the annual budgeting process with each department for the following year
• Work with our customer service and claims teams to assure volume-driven roles grow in accordance with overall growth of the company through our workforce planning models
• Utilize Adaptive and Workday to share dashboards and actual/forecasted data with department leads, and be an Adaptive planning expert.
• Drive change attribution and variance analysis around our financial model
• Collaborate with all departments to accurately forecast the assumptions that drive the business
• Coordinate with company leadership to plan and model new products and business

What you’ll need

• 4+ years experience in corporate finance, banking, or consulting
• B.A. in Business or Finance/Accounting
• Experience with Adaptive/Workday for planning experience is preferred
• Advanced Excel and data-manipulation skills
• A strong adherence to presentation and formatting standards
• Advanced table-chart-presentation integration in Google Workspace and MS office (XLS and PPT)
• General understanding of U.S. GAAP/IFRS and financial statements
• Comfortable with a hybrid (in-office and remote) work environment

Lemonade is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity. We never discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you require reasonable accommodations due to religious beliefs, pregnancy, or disabilities, let us know at any time.