Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, Ghost
$250-275k
+ bonus + equity
Inventory distribution optimization
Be an early applicant
Inventory distribution optimization
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-275k
+ bonus + equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform how inventory is bought and sold.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required; MBA or CFA designation strongly preferred
- 10+ years of finance experience; minimum 3 years at a bulge bracket investment bank with capital markets execution credentials
- Minimum 3 years of FP&A or strategic finance experience at a Series B+ retail or CPG company
- Demonstrated experience leading Series C+ equity raises and managing debt facilities, working capital financing, and treasury operations
- Demonstrated success upleveling financial operations and hands-on AI transformation experience
- Experience with FP&A software (ex: Prophix, Campfire, DataRails, Cube etc)
- Mastery of 3-statement modeling, scenario analysis, and driver-based financial frameworks
- Strong executive presence; proven ability to present to C-suite and board audiences
- Builder mentality — rolls up sleeves, develops people, operates with urgency and a team-first ethos
- Uncompromising work ethic and a team first mentality
- Operates with a sense of urgency, and has a relentless approach to understanding concepts, taking ownership and driving results
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to serve as a strategic financial partner to our executive leadership team. This is a high-impact role for a finance leader who combines deep investment banking expertise with hands-on operating experience. The ideal candidate has navigated the full spectrum of capital markets and brings robust analytical rigor and business judgment
- You are a strategic, analytical finance leader with experience in the CPG industry. You have a proven track record of building and coaching high-performing teams and ability to lead AI transformation of the finance function. You will own the numbers end-to-end, communicate with clarity, and thrive in ambiguity
- You will lead and develop the FP&A team to shape the financial architecture of a scaling organization
- Own annual budgeting, long-range planning, and rolling forecasts across all business units
- Lead monthly forecast, variance analysis, and operational reviews with leadership
- Build and maintain a bottoms-up 3-statement operating model with driver-based assumptions
- Build and deliver executive and board-level reporting packages
- Establish and track KPIs, unit economics and operating metrics, partnering with business leads to inform operational and financial performance
- Lead Series D fundraising — investor materials, due diligence, and process management
- Manage working capital financing including revolving credit, inventory financing, and vendor payment programs
- Execute debt capital markets transactions; maintain covenant compliance and lender relationships
- Oversee treasury operations: daily cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and bank relationships
- Own the AI transformation roadmap for FP&A, accounting, and treasury — deploying AI agents for forecasting, reporting, anomaly detection, and close automation
- Build AI-powered forecasting models and agentic workflows that auto-generate variance commentary, narratives, and dashboards
- Lead the migration of the current Excel-based FP&A operating model to Prophix, leveraging deep platform expertise to configure workflows, automate data feeds, and rebuild financial models natively within Prophix
- Design a company-wide KPI framework with AI-enabled monitoring, automated alerting, and a single source of truth data architecture
- Bring rigor, transparency, and sound judgment to financial decision-making in a dynamic startup environment
- Partner with CEO, CFO, and the Board on strategic planning, capital allocation, and corporate development
- Lead financial due diligence for investors, lenders, and strategic partnerships
- Hire, develop, and coach a high-performing FP&A team with a culture of analytical excellence and AI literacy
Our take
Excess inventory is one of the biggest pain points for modern retailers. Ghost solves this problem by making it easier for retailers to buy and sell excess inventory discreetly and sustainably.
With retailers wasting around $500 billion a year on excess inventory, demand for solutions like Ghost's is sky-high. The company has also made good on this demand, emerging from stealth mode in 2022 and about $66 million in funding to date. Ghost, which functions in much the same way as eBay, has benefited hugely from its founder's prior experience in the apparel industry.
Ghost's clear focus on sustainability and discretion has broad market appeal, especially for large-scale retailers looking to reduce waste and improve their public image. If Ghost can continue to attract such clients, it could scale at an impressive pace in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$40m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88m
Company HQ
Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Josh Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously worked as Senior Director of UEG Ventures, and was VP of Digital at Buck Mason.
Dee Murthy
(Co-Founder)They are also the Co-Founder of Young & Reckless and Five Four Group.
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