Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Job Description

We are actively seeking a Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis to be the analytical engine behind how Career Now Brands makes decisions. This is a hands-on, build-it-yourself role rather than a seat at the top of an existing finance department. You will own budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting, but the real value you create is judgment: telling us which clients and campaigns actually make money, what return we earned on the projects we funded, where the next dollar of investment should go, and what is changing in our industry before it shows up in our results. You will report to the President, work directly with the leadership team, and have room to grow into broader finance ownership as the company scales.

What you will do:

• Own the annual budget, the rolling forecast, and monthly variance analysis — and explain the story behind the numbers to leadership, not just the numbers
• Build and maintain client- and account-level profitability analysis: revenue, media spend, delivery cost, and contribution margin by client, brand, and product
• Analyze company performance against plan across revenue, active logos, revenue per account, retention and churn, and the unit economics underneath them (CPL, cost per hire, media margin)
• Build the business case and ROI framework for new projects, products, and headcount — then go back after the fact and measure whether we earned the return we underwrote
• Partner with sales and marketing leadership on pricing, deal structure, and quota and commission modeling
• Produce monthly and quarterly reporting packages for the leadership team and the board, including KPI dashboards and the narrative that goes with them
• Own cash flow forecasting and work with our accounting partners through the monthly close so the numbers are timely, reconciled, and defensible
• Turn data from HubSpot, Snowflake, QuickBooks, and ad platforms into a trusted set of financial and operating metrics — partnering with our data team rather than rebuilding everything in spreadsheets
• Identify and size new areas of opportunity: underpriced services, underserved segments, adjacent verticals, partnerships, and acquisition targets
• Track industry, competitive, and macro trends — freight cycle, driver capacity, labor market, recruitment marketing and AI landscape — and translate them into implications for our plan
• Raise the standard of our financial operating cadence: cleaner inputs, fewer one-off spreadsheets

What you will need:

• 6+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, consulting, investment banking, or a comparable analytical finance role, including experience owning a forecast end to end
• Advanced financial modeling skills in Excel— driver-based operating models, scenario analysis, and unit economics built to be maintained and trusted, not presented once and abandoned
• Strong SQL, or the demonstrated ability to get there quickly; you are comfortable querying a data warehouse and working in BI tools instead of waiting on someone else to pull your data
• Experience analyzing a recurring-revenue or services business: cohorts, retention and churn, revenue per account, contribution margin
• Working knowledge of GAAP-basis financials and the monthly close — enough to partner credibly with accountants without needing to be one (CPA, CFA, or MBA welcome, none required)
• A track record of influencing decisions rather than only reporting on them — you bring a recommendation, not just a variance
• Nice to have : marketing services, media buying, staffing and recruiting, or HR tech experience; HubSpot, Snowflake, or Tableau; board-level reporting; M&A or diligence exposure
• Commercially curious : genuinely interested in how our clients make money and how our products help them — you will spend real time with sales, media, and operations, not only in the model
• Strong communicator : turns analysis into a clear point of view that a non-financial audience can act on, and knows which three numbers matter in a twenty-number deck
• Fearless : willing to tell leadership when the data does not support the plan, and to defend the answer with the work behind it
• Accountable : owns the accuracy of the numbers and the quality of the decisions they drive
• Resourceful : gets to a defensible answer with imperfect data, and automates what should not be manual
• Productive : knows the difference between analysis that changes a decision and analysis that just looks impressive
• Ability to work Eastern Time Zone hours (hybrid, based in our Royal Oak headquarters)

Tools you will work with:

• Excel and Google Sheets
• QuickBooks 
• HubSpot 
• Snowflake 
• SQL 
• Tableau
• GA4 
• Google, Meta, and programmatic ad platforms 
• AI tooling for analysis and automation

Why Career Now Brands

Career Now Brands brings creative marketing solutions to recruitment and enrollment practices in the trucking, education and job distribution industries. Our flagship products - CDL Job Now, Career School Now and RocketPost - help build our clients' businesses while impacting millions of lives by boosting employment and enrollments across the U.S.

This position will be in our downtown Royal Oak headquarters. We recently renovated a large industrial warehouse into a modern, new office that embodies the culture and character of Detroit’s most innovative tech startup.

Our people live four core values: Fearless, Accountable, Productive, and Resourceful. If that's how you work, you'll fit right in.

To learn more about our company, please visit

Career Now Brands is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.