Financial Analyst, FP&A

The role

This person will provide financial analysis, reporting, and business partnering across functions. They will own components of the budgeting and in-year re-forecast cycle and build automated reporting processes.

What you will do

• Provide financial analysis, reporting, and business partnering across functions.
• Support the Strategic Finance Manager on core recurring and strategic forecasting and planning work.
• Own components of the budgeting and in-year re-forecast cycle end to end.
• Perform data gathering, financial modeling, and variance analysis.
• Support financial close by producing source materials.
• Coordinate accurate, timely accruals with cross-functional partners.
• Build out automated reporting and FP&A processes using AI tools or FP&A software.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, accounting, or a related analytical role.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Solid grasp of the three financial statements and the drivers behind them.
• Ability to connect operational KPIs to financial line items.
• Strong communicator who can explain a variance to non-finance stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) and experience automating finance-specific workflows.
• BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
• Planning tool (Vena, Pigment, Data Rails, Cube).
• ERP exposure (Netsuite).
• Auditing exposure if coming from the accounting side.
• Consumer/CPG/DTC experience.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Fully paid Health, Vision, and Dental insurance.
• 4-day work week.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Free cat food every month.

About the company

Smalls is a premium DTC cat food and cat lifestyle brand. They make fresh, human-grade food for cats.