FP&A Analyst

About us

At the forefront of farming and food, UPSIDE Foods is innovating new ways to produce real meat, without the need to breed, feed, and slaughter animals. Our process begins with an animal cell, which is cultivated and harvested as meat. The founding company of the industry, UPSIDE Foods is a mission-driven organization focused on bringing to meat lovers an authentic product that is truly humane, sustainably produced, nutritious and delicious! We are now expanding our team of dedicated professionals across disciplines to make better meat for a better world.

About this job

As the first FP&A hire, you will work closely with the Controller to build out the finance function. You’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining monthly forecasts for each department, analyzing actual results, and developing reporting to provide valuable insights in a timely manner. You will identify trends and issues and problem solve to improve the quality of our financial results. You will also continuously improve and develop our budgeting and forecasting process to provide valuable, actionable insights to both departments and senior management. On an annual basis, you will help drive the Budgeting process and long range planning. 

Duties include:

• Own and manage the Company’s financial budgeting model (inputs and outputs)
• Support the Company’s financial reporting and analytical data requests
• Partner with department owners to drive operational analysis, reporting, forecasting, and improvements to operating expense efficiency
• Work cross-functionally to ensure accurate reporting on all financial metrics and key performance indicators
• Provide analysis and presentation of monthly and quarterly financial and operational metrics including performance vs plan
• Support the quarterly/annual budgeting and planning process, as well as long-range strategic planning
• Proactively develop key financial analysis and insights to help enable the company to meet its monthly, quarterly, and annual objectives
• Understand and communicate financial results and trends to management, and recommend the appropriate course of action when results differ from the plan
• Improve and streamline the Organization’s planning process
• Help to manage the continued development of budgeting, financial forecasting, operating plan and modeling tools, P&L outlooks, and other accounting close processes
• Ad hoc projects, financial modeling, and analysis as needed
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve planning and reporting processes
• Develop key scorecards that provide senior management with insights into the health of the business

About you

• 4+ years of related FP&A or Finance experience (High growth manufacturing experience is a plus)
• BS/BA in Finance, Engineering, or Accounting preferred
• Strong Excel skills required
• System savvy, experience working with forecasting and reporting systems.
• Comfortable aggregating and manipulating large data sets from multiple systems to derive insightful analysis and create financial models
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, and systems skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to roll up sleeves and work collaboratively with a team
• Ability to work independently and prioritize competing initiatives

UPSIDE Foods is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Our company-wide mission is to create a product for everyone and so, we are deeply committed to having teams and leaders that reflect this mission.