What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Strategic Finance position at Zola?
Zola is looking for an exceptional leader to join the Finance team as Director of Strategic Finance.
This is a highly critical and visible role which helps drive financial and strategic decisions in a rapid growth environment. The role will report into the CFO and lead the company’s FP&A, strategic planning and corporate development efforts. You will work closely with executives and key leaders across the organization to drive short-term and long-term business and capital allocation decisions.
This role is ideal for someone with a proven track record in FP&A, corporate development or corporate finance.
Key Responsibilities
About Zola
We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples’ lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology… all in the service of love.
We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, and quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online and mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, and simply magical. We’re proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.
We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, and we’re proud of our thriving community of over 2 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued.
Our headquarters is in NYC. Come work with us!
This is a highly critical and visible role which helps drive financial and strategic decisions in a rapid growth environment. The role will report into the CFO and lead the company’s FP&A, strategic planning and corporate development efforts. You will work closely with executives and key leaders across the organization to drive short-term and long-term business and capital allocation decisions.
This role is ideal for someone with a proven track record in FP&A, corporate development or corporate finance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead rigorous financial budgeting and forecasting processes
- Own accurate forecasting and P&L management
- Thought partner for business and department leads; owner of financial analysis to inform key business decisions
- Drive long range and strategic planning discussions
- Enhance and monitor key performance indicators to drive business performance
- Oversee merchandise and inventory planning function
- Partner with data/BI team to ensure visibility and integrity of business and financial data
- Manage and mentor a high performing team, and be a key leader within the broader finance org
- Support board and investor updates and any corporate transactions
- 7 years experience in relevant finance roles; experience in investment banking and/or consumer startups preferred
- Deep expertise and passion for robust, auditable, and well-structured financial models
- Highly analytical strategic thinker with unquestionable integrity and curiosity in solving complex problems
- Passion for data and familiarity with business intelligence platforms; ability to drive business decisions with limited information
- Highly adept at communicating and collaborating with executives and functional leaders
- Demonstrated success in leading a high performing team
- Thrives in unstructured high growth environments
About Zola
We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples’ lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology… all in the service of love.
We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, and quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online and mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, and simply magical. We’re proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.
We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, and we’re proud of our thriving community of over 2 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued.
Our headquarters is in NYC. Come work with us!
Salary : $170,000 - $190,000
