Senior Manager -Strategic Finance

About Trove Recommerce

Recognized by FastCo in 2022 as one of the World Changing Ideas Awards and in 2020 as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies, Trove powers resale for the world's most beloved brands, extending the life of millions of products and creating more inclusive, less wasteful business models. Trove is the market leader in branded resale and trade-in for world-class brands and retailers such as Canada Goose, lululemon, Patagonia, REI, Levi’s, Arc’teryx, Allbirds, and more. Through its proprietary Recommerce Operating System, Trove is accelerating the shift toward more sustainable business models, foundational for circularity. Over the last decade, Trove has equipped leading brands with technology and operations to create and scale branded resale programs by enabling customer trade-in of items, single-SKU identification and condition grading, site build and maintenance, and customer data collection, analytics and reporting. A Certified B Corporation, Trove is pioneering a new era of retail essential to a more sustainable future.

About the Senior Manager - Strategic Finance

As Senior Manager - Strategic Finance at Trove, you will help scale Trove's finance function. You must have the financial background, and strategic forthrightness to both keep up with the transactional finance needs of a fast-growing company while at the same time working both cross-functionally with the SVP and GM’s of Operations and within the FP&A group. You will report to the Sr Director of FP&A and work collaboratively across the organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategic Finance: Support VP Finance on modeling out forward-looking strategic scenarios for the business. You would be responsible for developing and executing the financial planning process, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term strategic planning. This involves analyzing financial data, market trends, and business performance to provide insights and recommendations for improving financial outcomes and achieving company objectives.

• Cross Functional Collaboration/ Building KPIs: You would collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including operations, sales, marketing, and product development. You would act as a financial advisor and partner, providing insights and guidance and building the right KPIs for the business to help drive business growth, optimize resource allocation, and evaluate performance.

• Commercial Initiatives: Partner with our Sales, Partnerships, Data, and Operations teams to lead the financial modeling and recommendations for new and existing partner profitability initiatives and new commercial structures, and incorporate product-specific and partner-specific unit economics in our planning and pricing

• Profitability Initiatives: Drive profitability initiatives by providing informed analysis of key operational and financial metrics paired with actionable recommendations to advise senior management on the insights 

• Revenue and Unit Economics Planning: Own the revenue and margin forecasting process; establish an effective cross-functional dialogue to drive financial visibility and predictability and to enable other departments to translate their goals into measurable targets. 

• Gross Margin Growth: Through improving visibility, forecasting and analysis of results and key metrics and advising senior management on the insights gained help drive gross margin improvement 

• Incentive programs: design, model, analyze, and administer business and labor programs as required including the evolution of programs

Experience You Bring:

• Cross-functional and business partnership skills to build solid relationships while also getting results and driving processes to conclusion 

• Ability to juggle priorities and meet deadlines in ambiguous situations or where not all information is available

• Comfortable being hands-on with data and accounting while being able to interact & discuss with Senior Leadership as required

• Understanding of accounting principles – CPA a definite plus

• Attention to detail

• Mastery skills at Google Applications incl. Sheets/Excel/Looker, and retrieving data with analytical tools (SQL/Python/R)

• ERP software (NetSuite) and database experience and a passion for all things finance

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Points if You Have:

• Ecommerce experience

• Operations and 3PL contracts experience

• Product/SaaS management experience

• Strategy consulting experience in retail, software or logistics

• Experience in building forecasting models in analytic software (Python / R)

Why Work Here? 

• Flexible Remote Workplace- Trove’s flexible schedule and remote workplace allows employees to take control over their schedule, which is invaluable when it comes to attending to the needs of personal and work life needs.
• Open PTO -Our unlimited vacation company policy allows employees to take as much leave as they need. Employees need time to rest and enjoy themselves outside work. Putting a cap on this important time doesn’t help our effort to achieve high levels of employee satisfaction and productivity.
• 401K- Employees can set aside pre-tax dollars to invest in a qualified retirement investment plan with a company match. 
• Medical- Trove covers 100% of employee monthly premium. 
• Equity/Share Options - The longer the employee works, the more stocks become available to purchase.
• Learning Fund- Exempt employees have access to a pool of funds to support execution of their self-development goals and objectives. 
• Partner Discounts- Enjoy eligibility for Pro Accounts and various partner discounts from Patagonia, Arcteryx and Eileen FIsher
• Mission Driven- Work alongside passionate people to build the leading recommerce infrastructure and  the circular economy.

Trove is committed to creating an equitable and transparent workplace. The annual compensation range for this position is $119,720 -$176,738 plus competitive bonus and equity. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, location and skills and may vary from the range listed above. 

Trove is proud to be an equal opportunity company but we don’t want to stop there. We strive to be an anti-racist company and we believe that diversity and gender balance will help us reach our full potential. At Trove we are building a company where we are not only proud of our mission, but how we are pursuing it. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status and we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

Trove requires all employees to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of their employment, subject to exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs, or medical reasons.