Senior Finance Analyst, The Farmer's Dog
Corporate
$100-115k
+ Equity packages
Office located in Greenwich Village, NY
Human-grade dog food delivery
Posted today
Human-grade dog food delivery
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$100-115k
+ Equity packages
Office located in Greenwich Village, NY
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
Role
Who you are
- You have 3+ years of experience in finance, consulting, banking, or high-growth tech companies (Direct-to-Consumer/Subscription or Food Businesses is a plus!)
- You have demonstrated experience building and owning corporate three-statement financial models from the ground up to support financial and strategic decision-making
- You're an expert in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets with extensive financial modelling, forecasting and analytics experience
- You're a skilled communicator and have the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms to drive decision making
- You are an owner, have a strong attention to detail, and are proactive. You thrive as a self-starter and excel in managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- You are able to build strong cross-functional relationships, effectively facilitate discussions and drive consensus
- You are unfazed by the challenges of developing systems and processes from scratch
- Familiarity with Looker is preferred, and experience with systems like NetSuite is a plus!
- You love dogs
What the job involves
- This Senior Finance Analyst, Corporate will play a pivotal role within the Corporate Finance/FP&A department, assuming a wide range of responsibilities including managing the corporate financial model, developing and managing headcount and G&A budgets, supporting long-range planning efforts, crafting executive presentations, and contributing to capital initiatives
- This position will report to the Senior Manager of Finance
- We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter
- We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact
- We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically
- We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own
- We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems
- We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is
- We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention
- We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically
- We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”
- We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be
- Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience
- We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate
- To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel
- We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now?
- How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly
- We don’t expect to be perfect the first time
- Contribute to the company wide corporate planning models, including 3-statement forecasting, rolling monthly forecasts, and long-range planning models
- Assist with the preparation, maintenance, and automation of various weekly, monthly, quarterly financial and cross functional reports, conducting variance analyses and identifying opportunities for improvement
- Drive the annual budgeting and re-forecasting of headcount and overhead/G&A investments in collaboration with the Humans (how we refer to HR) group and department leaders across the business
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiencies and quality of current financial modelling / reporting processes and lead ideation and implementation of solutions
- Partner with the Accounting group to enhance month-end reporting and leverage your expertise to continuously improve and automate our finance processes
- Proactively propose and conduct ad-hoc analyses, using the insights gained to provide impactful recommendations and build presentations to report to leadership
- Assist with company presentations to the Board, potential investors and other investor reporting
- Support ad-hoc strategic analyses, such as capital initiatives, M&A opportunities, and other high-impact projects
Our take
Pet food production in the US is held to alarmingly low safety and quality standards despite being a $99 billion industry, which is hidden behind loose labeling and marketing regulations. When one of the founders of The Farmer's Dog realised that dog food was making his dog sick, they decided that dogs shouldn't be fed anything that wouldn't pass legal requirements for humans.
The Farmer’s Dog produces customised dog food packages that are sent as a regular subscription service. Recipes behind the dog food are personalised and are comprised of natural and high-quality ingredients, aiming to meet the dietary requirements of each individual dog. As the dog food is human-grade, the company even taste-tests its recipes on humans.
The startup sends millions of meals every month and boasts a continual subscription rate of almost 50%. It has raised $50 million in funding to date and is developing new pet food products and scaling to offer its subscription service outside of the US.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2021
$65m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
SERIES C
Total funding: $168.1m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly offices
- Equity packages
- Healthcare, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401k match
- 12-week paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO and work-from-home policy
- Discounted fresh dog food
- Your pet interrupting video calls and in-person meetings is now a feature, not a bug
Company values
- Deliver Joy: We share kindness with all, leaving people happier than before our interaction.
- Be Authentic: We’re well-intentioned and understanding in our actions, assuming the same of others.
- Seek Better: We’re sceptical of the status quo and open to new approaches.
- Act Boldly: We’d rather learn from calculated, courageous risks than miss opportunities from fear.
- Play Team: We take individual and collective ownership of progress, and show gratitude to those who help.
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jonathan Yoni Regev
(Co-founder & CEO)Graduated in Business at Berkeley, UC, and then co-founded The Farmer's Dog in 2014, serving as CEO since.
Brett Podolsky
(Co-founder)Graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Lynn University before co-founding The Farmer's Dog.
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