Financial Controller | Forecasting, Budget & Cash Control

Financial Controller | Forecasting, Budget & Cash Control | Direct Response Skin Care Brand | Full Time

Are you the person who knows exactly where every dollar is going before it leaves the bank?

Are you a builder who has set up a finance function from scratch, and wants to do it again at a much bigger scale and speed?

Are you curious, humble and hungry, with a big personal goal you are working towards and a plan to grow into a senior finance leader?

We are My Derma Dream! A nearly 9-figure Skin Care brand in the United States since 2022.

Because of our reputation and the incredible work of our marketing and sales teams, we have grown fast, and our leadership team has set its sights on $1BN in revenue.

BUT…

Growth only matters if it is profitable and the cash is there to fund it. Today our finance function sits with our President, COO & CFO, and we need someone who owns it day to day.

We are hiring a Financial Controller to own the entire finance function under our COO/CFO: building the budget and financial forecast, taking the marketing forecast and working out exactly how much we can afford to spend, and holding the line on every dollar that leaves the bank.

In order to achieve this, you will build the policies, reporting and controls that give leadership a true picture of profitability, by department and by week, so we can scale aggressively without ever running short of cash.

If you have run or built a finance function inside a fast-growing high 7- or 8-figure business…

If you know best practice, but also know how to get it done quickly in a startup environment…

If you want to be the protector of the cash and the person leadership trusts with the numbers…

Then APPLY NOW!

Results

• Increase our cash balance to 3 months of OPEX

• Increase profitability to 10% EBITDA

• Improve forecast-to-actuals accuracy [target % to be confirmed]

• Build a budget and spend-control system that keeps every department within its approved budget

• Expand margins through ongoing margin control and analysis

Responsibilities

• Own the entire finance function, reporting directly to our President, COO & CFO

• Build the company budget and maintain spend control against it

• Build, validate and maintain the financial forecast

• Take the forecast from Marketing and work out how much we can afford to spend

• Protect the cash leaving the bank: approve, challenge and track every outflow

• Deliver departmental P&Ls

• Deliver a weekly expense report

• Report budget-to-actuals and forecast-to-actuals, and explain every major variance

• Lead financial planning & analysis to support leadership decisions

• Drive margin control and margin expansion across the business

• Build and maintain financial policies and performance reporting

• Oversee day-to-day finance operations, including bookkeeping, payroll, vendor payments and reporting

Requirements

• Work 6 days/week

• Work 10 hours/day

• Read 2 books/month

• GAAP Certified

• Proven experience building budgets and financial forecasts, and holding a business accountable to them

• Experience running, or playing a leading role in, a finance function at a high 7- or 8-figure business

• Startup experience: you have built finance processes from scratch, not only maintained them

• Strong grasp of finance best practice, and the ability to implement it quickly

• A big personal goal you are working towards, and the drive to grow into a senior finance leadership role

• Humble, curious, coachable and highly motivated

• Ability to thrive within a clearly defined hierarchical leadership structure with direct reporting lines

Reward

• $5,000 – $7,000 per month + performance bonus

• The opportunity to build and own the finance function of one of the fastest-growing skincare brands in the United States

• Work directly with our President, COO & CFO and grow into a senior finance leadership role as the company scales

• Working in an environment of big dreams, speed, figure-it-out-ability & high leverage

If you are looking for the ride of a lifetime, then APPLY NOW!