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About the Role
Zola is seeking a high-energy, analytical, and motivated Strategic Finance Manager to join the Strategic Finance team. This role will partner closely with marketing, commerce, merchandising, operations, and accounting teams to forecast sales & margin, analyze trends, and drive strategic thinking.
Responsibilities
- Build plans and forecasts for total Zola business sales & margin, ensuring alignment with financial goals.
- Cultivate strong cross-functional relationships and partner with marketing, commerce, vendor marketplace, and merchandising teams on business unit strategies and analysis to identify risks and opportunities.
- Drive ad hoc analysis around business trends, both Zola specific and macro, to provide clear reports to key leaders.
- Own reporting for weekly KPI reports, monthly forecast meetings, and quarterly opex reviews.
- Partner with Accounting and Business Intelligence teams to ensure visibility and integrity of business and financial data.
- Work with business leaders on Board materials, including financial projections, PowerPoint presentations, and supplementary analysis.
- Collaborate with leadership team members to determine and prioritize business strategies in accordance with annual planning.
- Partner with the Head of Strategic Finance to drive strategic initiatives like M&A, cross-functional strategic processes, and long-term vision/roadmap planning.
- Proactively drive process and workflow improvements for the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 3+ years of experience in a finance role in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Investment banking experience preferred.
- Exceptional financial modeling and data analytics skills, with the ability to build clean, flexible models that tell a story.
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint required.
- Proficiency in Looker and/or SQL a plus (or ability to become proficient quickly).
- Highly analytical and critical thinker with ability to conduct analyses and defend such analyses.
- Enjoys solving problems creatively and proactively and thinking strategically.
- Highly detail oriented with strong organizational and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams efficiently and accurately.
- Excellent storytelling and presentation skills.
- Ability to develop and deliver engaging presentations, emails, and financial reports.
- Highest standard of excellence in verbal & written communication.
- Team player and collaborator.
- Able to build trusted cross-functional relationships.
Skills
- Financial modeling
- Data analytics
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Looker
- SQL
- Storytelling
- Presentation skills
- Communication
Location
- NYC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000-$150,000
About the Company
- Zola is the wedding company that will do anything for love, reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience.
- Zola combines compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology.
- The company built its platform from the ground-up in 2013 and became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country.
- Zola has investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- Zola is passionate about supporting all forms of love and has a community of over 1 million couples.
- Zola strives to hire a diverse team and encourages individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
- Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected, accepted, and valued.
- Headquarters are in New York City.
Equal Opportunity
- We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply.
- Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued.