Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ripple Foods is a company focused on driving financial performance and analysis. The FP&A Manager will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and reporting, collaborating with various departments to enhance visibility into business performance and support strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Support the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes
- Help maintain financial models for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, cash flow, and scenario planning
- Develop forecast assumptions in partnership with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting
- Lead variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year
- Identify risks, opportunities, and key business drivers impacting financial performance
- Analyze sales performance by customer, channel, SKU, product line, and region
- Partner with Sales to evaluate customer-level profitability, volume trends, pricing, deductions, trade spend, and promotional ROI
- Support monthly customer and channel reviews with actionable insights
- Help improve forecast accuracy by connecting sales forecasts to demand planning, shipment trends, customer plans, and historical performance
- Evaluate new customer opportunities, and pricing changes
- Monitor gross margin performance by SKU, customer, and channel
- Analyze COGS, freight, warehousing, manufacturing, co-packer costs, ingredient costs, packaging, and yield variances
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to understand cost drivers and margin improvement opportunities
- Support standard cost updates, cost savings initiatives, and margin bridge analysis
- Provide financial support for new product launches, reformulations, and operational changes
- Own departmental expense reporting and forecasting across key functions
- Partner with budget owners to review spend, identify variances, and update forecasts
- Support headcount planning, marketing spend analysis, G&A tracking, and department-level accountability
- Improve visibility into fixed versus variable costs and discretionary spending
- Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for executive leadership
- Develop clear dashboards, KPIs, and financial summaries that highlight business performance
- Support board reporting, investor materials, lender reporting, and strategic projects as needed
- Turn financial data into practical business recommendations
- Improve reporting cadence, data accuracy, and financial storytelling
- Improve FP&A processes, templates, models, and reporting tools
- Partner with Accounting to ensure actuals are accurate, timely, and aligned with reporting needs
- Support implementation or optimization of planning, ERP, BI, and reporting systems
- Help build scalable finance infrastructure as the company grows
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
- 5–8 years of relevant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, consulting, accounting, or business analytics
- CPG, food and beverage, manufacturing, or consumer products experience required
- Strong understanding of P&L management, gross margin, trade spend, COGS, inventory, and operating expenses
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
- Experience with ERP, planning, and reporting systems such as NetSuite, Oracle, Adaptive, Anaplan, SAP, Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
- Ability to work with large data sets and translate analysis into clear recommendations
- Strong communication skills and ability to partner cross-functionally with non-finance teams
- High attention to detail, strong business judgment, and ability to manage multiple priorities
Benefits
- Excellent Health care coverage for you and your family
- Generous time off: the freedom you need to take time away from work to rest and recharge
- Pay It Forward or Give It Back: 20 hours paid time each year to volunteer. Join a planned event or volunteer individually for a cause that matters to you
- Paid bonding leave for new parents and pregnancy disability leave
Company Overview
Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://ripplefoods.com.