Strategic Finance Associate / Lead

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners in the beauty and wellness industry to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing, and much more.

Over 75,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

To date, we’ve raised $70 million dollars and are backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, L Catterton, Imaginary Ventures, and Left Lane Capital, along with a number of high-profile strategic investors.

About the Role

GlossGenius is looking for a Strategic Finance Associate / Lead to support financial and strategic analysis, forecasting and budgeting, and management and investor reporting, while displaying curiosity, proactivity, and accountability. You will partner closely with executives and business leaders across the organization to evaluate strategic business decisions and drive financially informed decision making practices.

You will report to the Senior Director of Finance. You must be commutable to our NYC headquarters and will operate in a hybrid environment with 2 days per week in the office (Tuesdays & Thursdays).

What You’ll Do

• Act as a strategic thought partner to executives and department heads, leading creation of financial and data analyses with impactful insights and recommendations
• Track, analyze, and forecast key business/financial KPIs with aim of uncovering trends and assessing current/future business risks and opportunities
• Help lead the quarterly financial forecast and budget planning process, working in close partnership with executives and department leaders
• Prepare management and investor reporting, including materials for Board of Directors meetings
• Develop and maintain comprehensive financial and operating models for the entire company and individual areas of our business
• Perform research and develop frameworks to support the executive team in defining short and long-term strategy and objectives
• Identify and drive initiatives to continuously improve, automate and scale forecasting, reporting, procurement, and capital allocation tools and systems

What We’re Looking For

• 3-7 years experience in strategic finance, FP&A, private equity, venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, public markets investing, or equity research
• Strong analytical skills and deep experience building integrated financial models
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain business partner relationships at all levels within the organization
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Proficiency with core financial and business intelligence systems (e.g., NetSuite, Looker) is a plus

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially covered by GG
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office stipend
• Team Bonding: As a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year.