Director, Finance

About Slickdeals:

We believe shopping should feel like winning. That’s why 10 million people come to Slickdeals to swap tips, upvote the best finds, and share the thrill of a great deal. Together, our community has saved more than $10 billion over the past 25 years.

We’re profitable, passionate, and in the middle of an exciting evolution—transforming from the internet’s most trusted deal forum into the go-to daily shopping destination. If you thrive in a fast-moving, creative environment where ideas turn into impact fast, you’ll fit right in.

The Purpose:

You will be joining the Slickdeals Finance team, working closely with the CFO and VP of FP&A. This highly collaborative team partners across the organization to drive financial strategy, forecasting, and performance.

What You'll Do:

Financial Planning & Reporting:

• Lead and execute effective long-range planning and annual revenue/expense budgeting in partnership with the executive team, finance team, and business leads. Outputs include the annual plan, weekly/monthly/quarterly forecasting, financial reporting (actual vs. budget, trend) and ROI analysis on business initiatives.
• Own the company’s financial model end-to-end and use it to inform strategic decisions at the highest level.
• Maintain various planning scenarios and track results against each for management and our investors.
• Maintain ownership for the generation and delivery of recurring and non-recurring reports and analyses including, but not limited to functional/department actual vs. budget reporting and variance analysis, forecast vs. budget, profitability analysis by initiatives, and industry benchmarking.
• Ensure consistency of/reconcile financial and operational data between management reports and GAAP-based general ledger reports.

Strategic & Analytic Support:

• Maintain constant partnership with stakeholders to ensure strategic and tactical initiatives are aligned cross-functionally and with corporate goals. Create financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives.
• Provide Product team with finance-based decision support for implementing new as well as maintaining existing products and processes. This includes ongoing development and maintenance of KPI metrics and reports.
• Prepare presentation materials for Board of Directors, management and total company consumption regarding projected business results.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; 7+ years of total experience with at least 2-3 years in corporate finance running financial models and recurring reporting; experiences in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting is a plus.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel and PowerPoint – pivot tables, lookup functions, cell linking/referencing; comfort with large data sets. Experience automating processes through AI is a plus.
• Be extremely analytical and quantitative and very comfortable building advanced spreadsheet models.
• Knowledge of accounting, including understanding the relationship of the 3 financial statements.
• Proven track record of meeting deadlines quickly and accurately, multi-task and work well under pressure with changing priorities. Comfortable taking initiative and working independently to achieve successful results.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to compose and execute presentations for senior management and board director audiences.