VP, Finance

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About Us

The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a digitally-native consumer products company born in the Gen Z era to make purpose-driven consumer products designed for all people. Since its launch in 2012, Honest has been dedicated to creating thoughtfully formulated, safe and effective personal care, beauty, baby and household products, which are available via honest.com, third-party ecommerce partners and approximately 50,000 retail locations across the United States, Canada and Europe. Based in Los Angeles, CA, the Company's mission, to inspire everyone to love living consciously, is driven by its values of transparency, trust, sustainability and a deep sense of purpose around what matters most to its consumers: their health, their families and their homes. For more information about the Honest Standard and the company, please visit www.honest.com.

Our Mission

We're on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We're a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all. 

The Role

The Honest Company is seeking a talented VP Finance to join its Finance team. This role will have high impact and will partner with senior leaders throughout the organization to set our strategy and drive key business initiatives across the company. This position will provide insights into current processes, recommend areas to implement CPG industry best practices and be proactive in creating tools that will drive improved decision making.

The Finance team is made up of problem solvers – focusing on enhancing The Honest Company’s growth and profitability. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a dynamic finance team in a fast-paced environment and own high-priority, high-impact projects, while maintaining our spirit of fun, energy, and passion. The role requires superior analytical, presentation and leadership skills, as well as a demonstrated ability to collaborate across a diverse range of commercial, CPG brand portfolio and corporate stakeholders.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Manage and lead all elements of The Honest Company’s financial planning process with a strong connection between long-term strategy and execution
• Ensure delivery of long-term objectives through strategy, initiative planning and resourcing, and proper controls
• Lead the finance team in building and maintaining financial projections in support of the company’s strategic plan, long-range plan, annual operating plan and regular forecasts
• Develop and manage the company’s cash flow and balance sheet planning models and make recommendations on appropriate capital structure aligned with strategic objectives
• Lead all aspects of financial design for product initiative launches, including pricing, marketing support models, project financials, ROI and optimal cost structure
• Lead the development of the brand portfolio analytics and financial insights to support strategic market penetration plans in retail distribution
• Proactive identification and valuation analysis of business issues and opportunities for driving growth in-stores and trade efficiencies
• Partner with R&D to support New Product Development process and business case development
• Proactive identification of operating cost savings initiatives and development of productivity measurement tools in the areas of supply chain, procurement, technology and administrative functions
• Partner with technology and operating leadership on the identification and business case build for system implementations that enable the operating teams to achieve commercial excellence, such Sales Planning, Demand Planning, Trade Promotions Management, Product Lifecyc