Senior Finance Manager, Operations

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

What We Stand For

We have big ambitions, our mission is to give dog lovers true peace of mind by helping them do the best for their dogs – this will require us to completely reimagine how we care for our dogs and drive meaningful shifts in an industry that is desperate for change. We don’t believe this is possible by implementing “best practices” or operating how the rest of the industry operates. 

 

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Finance”, “Engineering”, “Marketing”, or “Product”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have the necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms to solve problems holistically. 

 

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.   

 

We execute for impact: We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. finance goes beyond models and is entrenched in operational decision making.

Where You'll Come In

The Finance Manager (FP&A) will support our Operations department, with a particular focus on partnering with our Manufacturing, Procurement, Inventory and Demand Planning groups. This role will contribute to long-range planning, monthly forecasting, performance analysis and capital investment strategy. Working hand-in-hand with business partners, this person will play a key role in driving success in the business - provide financial insights, guide and advise on strategic decisions. This position will report to the Director, FP&A. 

How You'll Make An Impact

• Serve as the primary Finance business partner for Manufacturing, Procurement, Inventory and Demand Planning groups. You will have a broad range of responsibilities from business performance analysis to partnering with external partners and providing insights that help shape our supply chain strategy. 
• Develop, maintain and improve financial models and conduct ad hoc and scenario analyses on financial implications to assist leadership in making strategic decisions

• Contribute to the monthly COGs and gross margin forecast process, including detailed variance analysis, executive presentations, and improvement opportunities. 

• Lead the development and implementation of critical analyses and processes related to business partner function areas from conception to final rollout.
• Provide your financial perspective on key strategic matters that could transform our supply chain, which potentially could include capital investments, procurement strategies, and manufacturing processes. 
• Support capacity planning, integrated business planning, and inventory forecasting in collaboration with the Demand Planning, ensuring alignment between operational plans.
• Own the analysis and reporting of monthly manufacturing pricing, partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to review trends, explain variances, and identify opportunities to improve cost performance.
• Partner with Manufacturing to manage external manufacturing relationships, including reviewing and validat