Finance Manager for Consumer Goods Business - Contract to Hire

As our Finance Manager, you’ll work directly with the CEO and cross-functional team leads to manage our financial infrastructure and help guide key decisions across the business. This is a hybrid role that combines execution (overseeing bookkeeping, AR/AP) with forward-looking planning (budgeting, forecasting, modeling). You’ll help keep our financial house in order while supporting capital planning, capital/investor conversations and sustainable growth. This role will serve as right hand person to Founder & CEO, providing strategic and operational decision making. Key Responsibilities: - Day-to-day oversight of bookkeeper and AR specialist (QA, workflow management, reporting review) - Budgeting, forecasting and financial direction with marketing, ops, and sales leads - Cash flow analysis, including AP/AR timing, credit card management, and LOC management - Financial modeling for business planning, new product rollouts, fundraising, etc. - Track and analyze unit economics, margins, etc. - Investor support, including data room prep, diligence question responses, scenario modeling - Inventory and production run planning to align financial capacity with operational needs - Provide cash flow visibility and recommendations to ensure healthy working capital Requirements: - 2-3+ years experience in consumer products - Background in FP&A, finance or strategic finance, potentially - coming from a smaller startup or looking to grow into a Head of Finance role - Open to contracting into full time hire (not required) - Excel/Sheets power user, comfortable building models from scratch - Strong communicator across functions - Comfortable with a player-coach role: executing themselves while coordinating others Apply Job!