Strategic Finance Lead, Enterprise

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About This Role

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to serve as the finance business partner to Faire’s People organization and lead the design and implementation of company-wide headcount planning tools and policy. This role will advise broader strategic finance strategy, reporting, and planning.

The Finance and Strategy Team’s mission is to maximize the long-term value of Faire by helping drive optimal investment decisions and by partnering on execution. We work closely with our cross-functional partners and bring a data-driven approach to analyzing business opportunities. We wear several hats at Faire including strategic growth planning, company-wide performance management, and business analytics. This role will partner with the CFO, Chief People Officer, and other senior leaders cross-functionally on financial budgeting, planning and forecasting to ultimately drive the best outcomes for the business.

What you’ll do:

• Act as the finance business partner to leadership across the People organization, including Recruiting, HR, and Compensation, providing financial analysis, decision support, and appropriate challenge.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve headcount planning tools, policies, and approval frameworks that enable the business to manage its most significant resource investment.
• Own the company-wide headcount reporting and forecasting process, including headcount variance analysis, cost modeling, and workforce planning insights for leadership.
• Partner with People leadership on compensation benchmarking analysis, benefits cost modeling, and other people-related financial analyses to support strategic decision-making.
• Develop and maintain reporting frameworks that provide leadership with clear visibility into people-related spend, productivity, and investment efficiency.
• Contribute to communications and key corporate reporting requirements to executives and board members (e.g. P&L, performance KPI tracking).
• Continuously improve and standardize reporting frameworks, systems, and processes across the corporate finance function.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Investment Banking with 3+ years of direct Corporate Finance experience. Experience as a finance business partner to People/HR functions is a strong plus.
• Strong business & financial acumen with understanding of technology or marketplace  business models. Maintains a high bar for separating signal from noise. 
• Headcount and workforce planning expertise with experience designing or managing headcount planning processes, tools, and policies at scale.
• Strong  financial analytical capabilities.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills with the ability to synthesize data and metrics to tell a compelling story, and tailor content to different audiences. 
• Strong project management skills with the ability to structure and manage complex cross-functional projects.
• Sharp attention to detail with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other relevant field.

Salary Range

New York City / San Francisco : the pay range for this role is $158,500 to $218,000 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting. 

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
• We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs.  To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form))

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