Senior Financial Analyst, SharkNinja
Compensation & Workforce Planning
3 days a week in office (Battersea, London )
Home devices and appliances
Open for applications
Home devices and appliances
1001+ employees
Open for applications
3 days a week in office (Battersea, London )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 4–7+ years’ experience in FP&A, corporate finance or a related field
- Strong financial modelling and advanced Excel capability
- Experience in workforce planning and/or compensation forecasting
- Familiarity with planning systems such as Adaptive Planning or Oracle EPM; exposure to workforce planning tools (e.g., TeamOhana) advantageous
- Experience supporting a regional or international business segment preferred
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner effectively across geographies
What the job involves
- SharkNinja is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Global FP&A team, with primary responsibility for supporting workforce planning and people-related Opex across the EMEA region — a key and rapidly growing segment of the business
- As SharkNinja continues to expand its presence across EMEA, this role will play an important part in ensuring that workforce investment supports regional growth ambitions while maintaining financial discipline and margin performance
- Working closely with regional leadership and HR, you will provide forward-looking analysis, support planning cycles, and enhance visibility of people-related spend across the region
- Lead forecasting of EMEA people-related costs, including salary, incentives and benefits
- Own and maintain the rolling headcount and compensation forecast for the region, ensuring accurate and timely visibility
- Support the EMEA annual operating plan and in-year reforecast processes, aligning workforce investment to commercial priorities
- Develop and maintain robust headcount and compensation models to evaluate hiring plans, organizational changes and growth initiatives
- Monitor variances against budget and forecast, providing clear analysis and insight to regional and global stakeholders
- Identify emerging risks and cost pressures within the EMEA workforce and support mitigation planning
- Act as the finance partner to EMEA HR and functional leaders, ensuring alignment between hiring plans, productivity objectives and financial targets
- Support analysis of cost-to-revenue ratios and workforce productivity metrics to help drive sustainable, profitable regional growth
- Deliver concise, decision-focused reporting to regional leadership and Global FP&A
- Maintain appropriate governance and transparency across EMEA people-related Opex
- What Success Looks Like:
- Clear and credible EMEA workforce cost forecasts
- Strong alignment between regional hiring plans and financial targets
- Early visibility of financial risks and opportunities within a growing region
- Improved transparency and accountability across EMEA people spend
- Finance recognized as a trusted and value-adding regional partner
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With more people looking for home products that work harders and smarter, SharkNinja has become a household name. Through its Shark line of cleaning and home care tools and Ninja range of kitchen appliance the company creates solutions that simplify daily routines and overall enhance modern living.
SharkNinja has been in operation since 1994, which is testament to the quality and popularity of its products. Since its initial launch in Canada, the company has expanded into the US and the UK. In 2017 SharkNinja was bought by CDH Private Equity for over $1.5 Billion, further proof of its impressive market value. Perhaps more evidence is that it brings in annual revenues of around $4B.
It continues to hold a strong position in the home appliance market too, competiting with big brands like Dyson. Its Shark line lead the US upright vacuum, segment, while its presence in robotics vacuums reflects steady growth in a compeititve space. Since going public, the company has m,aintained a rapid pace of innovation, launching numerous new products eacxh pear and expanding into adjecent categories such as outdoor coolers and grills. With a growing global footprint and a focus ons mart design, usabiluity, and category expansion, SharkNinja is very well positioned to continue shaping the futur of home appliances.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Needham Heights, Needham, MA
Leadership
Mark Rosenzweig
(Founder)Founded SharkNinja in 1994. Has won three Red Dot Awards for product Design.
Mark Barrocas
(CEO)Mark joined SharkNinja in 2008 as CEO. Prior to this, he spent 3 years at Aramark Uniform Services as the President of the WearGuard Division. Prior to that, he spent 4 years at Broder Bros as the President and 2 years at Perry Ellis International as VP of Corporate Sales.
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