Overview

Director, Finance role at Slickdeals. This position partners with the CFO and VP of FP&A to drive financial strategy, forecasting, and performance in a highly collaborative finance team.

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 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.

Location

San Mateo, CA — Hybrid schedule visiting the office two days a week (Tuesdays to Thursdays).

Slickdeals Compensation, Benefits & Perks

The compensation range for this role is competitive and will be discussed during the interview process and tailored to the candidate’s qualifications.

• Competitive base salary, annual bonus, and equity package
• Competitive paid time off in addition to holiday time off
• A variety of healthcare insurance plans
• 401K matching above the industry standard
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program and LinkedIn Learning Membership

Work Authorization

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.

Slickdeals is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or other protected status. We may access publicly available information as part of your application. We participate in E-Verify.

Slickdeals does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies and is not responsible for related fees.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance and Sales

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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