The Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis at ZestFinance is responsible for building and ensuring critical support to our finance and leadership teams. The position will focus on creating/building financial tools, reporting mechanisms, business modeling and financial planning processes that will effectively scale with Zest’s growth.  This Manager will possess superior financial reporting, planning and modeling skills, as a well as razor-sharp business acumen. The role also requires the ability to understand the big picture of the Zest financial model, while being very detail-oriented with the analysis of bookings and revenue, expenses, and cash flows.

In this role you will:

• Assist in the consolidated forecasting process and own portions of the financial forecast models, including P&L, cash flow, and supporting schedules/analyses
• Monitor and communicate progress toward achievement of financial plan
• Oversee monthly Profit and Loss reviews; cash forecasting and management; identify trends driving positive and negative variances to plan
• Create and maintain tools and reports used to measure and track results against expectations
• Support key decisions through ad-hoc analyses
• Support the business groups in managing their spending budgets, including monthly budget vs. actual analysis, headcount reporting, monthly and quarterly expense forecast updates, annual planning, and special projects

We are looking for: 

• 6+ years of finance experience in high growth environments.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Proficiency in using/managing/building-out planning tools & applications
• Ability to synthesize complex concepts/strategies into a clear story for both internal and external constituents
• Someone that is well-organized, data driven and comfortable managing multiple projects/stake holders
• Proven ability to build strong working relationships with business partners/department heads/coworkers as a trusted and objective advisor
• Bachelor’s degree, MBA preferred
• Advanced Excel skills, experience with database management tools and sophisticated modeling tools

Perks and benefits:

• People – the best part of Zest
• Robust healthcare plans, matching 401K and unlimited vacation time
• Dog friendly office with lounge areas, video games and gigantic jigsaw puzzles
• On-site gym with yoga, salsa, and other employee run fitness classes
• Generous family leave policy (6 month maternity leave/3 month paternity leave)
• Tuition reimbursement, conference allowance and Zest talks
• Complimentary massages, manicures, pedicures and more
• Daily catered lunches from LA’s best restaurants and fully stocked kitchen