Join a fast-growing candy brand where your financial expertise will shape strategy, drive profitability, and fuel sweet success. Bring your analytical skills and collaborative spirit to turn data into decisions that power growth and innovation.

JOYRIDE

JOYRIDE is a better-for-you candy brand dedicated to delivering moments of joy through delicious, flavor-packed candy chock-full of feel-good ingredients. With less sugar than the leading brands, no artificial colors, sweeteners, or preservatives, and over one million followers on social media (@joyridesweets), JOYRIDE is rapidly growing and redefining what better-for-you candy tastes, looks, and feels like.

What You Will Do

As a Finance Manager, you will lead financial planning and analysis efforts, developing models, forecasts, and budgets that guide strategic business decisions. You’ll collaborate across departments to analyze trends, measure profitability, and provide actionable insights that drive growth, efficiency, and margin improvement. Additionally, you’ll support pricing and promotional strategies, oversee trade spend and inventory analysis, and ensure accurate, data-driven reporting to senior leadership.

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain financial models, forecasts, and budgets to support strategic planning and decision-making processes.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather data, analyze trends, develop KPIs, and provide actionable insights to drive business performance and operational efficiency.
Analyze profitability by customer, channel, and product group to drive strategic decision-making.
Build and maintain program P&L models to evaluate LTO programs and promotions.
Conduct trade spend analysis, including budget vs. actual variance, ROI measurement, and accrual analysis.
Partner with Sales and Marketing teams to support pricing decisions, promotional planning, and route-to-market strategies.
Analyze monthly financial performance, including variance analysis, trend analysis, and key performance indicator (KPI) tracking, to identify areas of improvement and opportunities for growth.
Work closely with the accounting team to provide detailed reporting of all standard variances across departments.
Provide detailed reporting and insights to senior leadership on gross margin, operating expenses, and working capital.
Support cross-functional teams with ad hoc financial modeling and scenario analysis for growth initiatives.
Analyze inventory and oversee a process to ensure organization is flagging medium and short coded product regularly to reduce spoilage and waste.
Assist with systems integration projects (ERP, TPM, demand planning, KPI Dashboarding), ensuring data integrity and process efficiency.

Who You Are

You are a hands-on finance professional with experience in a fast-growing CPG food company, skilled at balancing strategic insight with day-to-day financial execution. You thrive in collaborative environments, working cross-functionally to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that drive business results. Highly analytical and detail-oriented, you bring strong systems expertise, a team-first mindset, and the ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Qualifications:

5 years equivalent applicable work experience at a CPG company is required.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
Experience working with CPG-related systems beyond Excel (ERP, TPM, Inventory Management).
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functional teams and influence decision-making at all levels of the organization.
Emphasis on teamwork and collective goals over individual roles or personal ego.
Skilled in juggling numerous demanding deadlines while upholding excellence in output.
Proven ability to prioritize effectively, operate with a high sense of urgency, and exhibit self-starting initiative.

Benefits

Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
Comprehensive health and vision insurance
Remote work environment
PTO
Opportunities for professional development and career growth