FP&A Analyst

Job Description

About Thriving Brands

Thriving Brands is a fast-growing consumer packaged goods (CPG) company focused on acquiring, revitalizing, andgrowing iconic consumer brands. We combine entrepreneurial agility with deep CPG expertise to unlock growth opportunities through insights, analytics, and executional excellence.

About the Role

The FP&A Analyst is a key business partner to Operations, Supply Chain, and Sales, responsible for building driver-based budgets and rolling forecasts, delivering clear management reporting, and providing actionable insights that improve revenue growth, gross margin, operating leverage, and cash flow. The role requires strong NetSuite experience (reporting, Saved Searches, SuiteAnalytics; NetSuite Planning and Budgeting is a plus).

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecast cycles for P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Build driver-based models for volume/mix/price, conversion costs, productivity, scrap/yield, freight, FX.
• Partner with S&OP to align the demand/supply plan with revenue, COGS, and capacity assumptions.
• Develop OPEX and CAPEX plans; track variances, runrate impacts, and depreciation/amortization.
• Maintain a consolidated forecast across legal entities, multi-currency, and product/value streams.

Management Reporting & Analytics

• Deliver monthly FP&A pack: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and variance analysis vs. Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year.
• Produce gross margin bridges (price/volume/mix, PPV, usage/efficiency, overhead absorption, freight, FX).
• Publish KPI dashboards: GM%, conversion cost per unit, inventory turns, DIO/DSO/DPO, E&O exposure, ontime infull, and productivity.
• Create executive-ready summaries and board slides with clear insights and actions.

Business Partnering & Decision Support

• Perform customer/product profitability analysis, pricing and discount analysis, and portfolio rationalization.
• Evaluate CAPEX with NPV/IRR/payback; monitor postinvestment benefits.
• Collaborate closely with Cost Accounting on standard cost rolls, cost revaluations, and the P&L/balance sheet impacts.

Modeling, Scenario & Cash

• Build robust models for scenario planning (best/base/worst), sensitivity analyses, and breakeven.
• Forecast working capital (AR/AP/Inventory), E&O reserves, and cash conversion cycle; improve cash forecast accuracy.
• Model FX impacts on revenue, margin, and costs for multi-currency operations.

Close Support, Data & Controls

• Tie out forecast and actuals to NetSuite; reconcile key variances and ensure data integrity.
• Automate recurring reports using Saved Searches, SuiteAnalytics, and scheduled workflows.
• Support audit requests and maintain documentation consistent with internal control standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics.
• 3–5+ years of FP&A or Finance experience in the CPG industry.
• Strong financial modeling skills; advanced Excel (lookups, pivots, scenario/sensitivity modeling).
• Experience with NetSuite for actuals and reporting (Saved Searches, SuiteAnalytics, dashboards).

Preferred Qualifications

• BI skills (Power BI/Tableau), and familiarity with SQL or SuiteAnalytics Connect.
• Experience in multi-entity, multi-currency environments; exposure to US GAAP/IFRS.

Key Competencies

• Analytical rigor & structured problem solving
• Business partnering & stakeholder influence
• Ownership, bias for action, and continuous improvement
• Data integrity, governance, and documentation discipline
• Storytelling with data; executive-ready communication

Tools & Systems

• ERP: NetSuite (Saved Searches, SuiteAnalytics, dashboards; NSPB strongly preferred).
• Analytics: Excel (advanced), Power BI/Tableau (preferred).
• Finance Methods: Driver-based planning, scenario/sensitivity analysis, ROI/NPV/IRR.
• Operations Alignment: S&OP.