Senior Manager, Accounting, Cost Reporting

Come see what’s cookin’ at HelloFresh!

At HelloFresh, we want to revolutionize the way we eat by making it more convenient and exciting to cook meals from scratch. We have offices all over the world and we deliver delicious meals to millions of people.  

We are the industry leader in meal-kit subscription services and we’re growing all the time. We have distinct meal-kit services that cater to everyone with the most menu variety in the market, which allows us to reach an incredibly wide population of people.

The HelloFresh team is diverse, high-performing, and international, and our work environment is an inspiring space where you can thrive as a result.

Job Description:

The Senior Manager, Cost Reporting, is a key member of the Finance team and will help drive the company forward by partnering closely with global cross-functional teams to support the growth of our rapidly expanding business; driving controllership, innovation, and insights which will in turn drive cost-effective operations across the US distribution network.  

You should be passionate about using data to solve big, complex and ambiguous problems. Be eager to continuously learn and improve your skills. You should be attentive to which details make all the difference. You’ll employ data analysis to ensure your partners and leaders have the most up to date and reliable information. You’ll make a huge impact by  working collaboratively and providing meaningful insights to finance and business partner leaders making critical decisions for the company.   

Job Responsibilities include:

• Create a strategic roadmap for continuous improvement, automation,  and development of key dashboards and metrics that support weekly cost reporting; enable streamlining to allow more opportunities to achieve operational excellence, benchmarking, and lessons learned
• Becoming a key contributor to statistical, financial, strategic, and operational analysis and modeling involving large data sets to: support and improve business operations; implement best practices; and conduct cost benefit analysis. Diving deep into the financial data and becoming a subject matter expert to provide additional insights and communicate key drivers / inputs to support business decisions.
• Performing financial reporting, ad-hoc project analyses, and financial modeling.
• Facilitating financial review meetings with business groups and working with business managers to ensure effective controllership and cost management
• Creating, improving, and maintaining financial metrics, reports and scorecards
• Championing technology and automation, including the implementation of new  tools and dashboards
• Identifying process improvements and transformation opportunities, and partnering with process owners and stakeholders to scope opportunities, define problem statements and objectives, and structure projects and teams
• Root cause analysis and uncovering core issues using data, then assisting the operations and finance teams in improving and creating new measures of cost performance
• Managing the development of our weekly cost reporting models and their continuous innovation through partnership with Operations, Procurement, Logistics, Data Analytics and Finance 
• Work with data source providers and technology teams to ensure that key decision data is accurate, automated and timely
• Recruit, develop and retain top talent on the cost reporting team

Basic Qualifications: 

• BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Business and/or similar discipline with analytical bias
• Working knowledge of accounting principles
• 6+ years experience in positions that require analysis and reporting financial results
• 3+ years experience in collecting, analyzing and managing quantitative data and creating meaningful reports and dashboards to lead business improvement and cost reductions
• Expert in Excel and experience with Oracle
• Demonstrated financial acumen and/or analytical experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• 2+ years of hiring, leading and developing teams and exceptional talent
• Proven ability to manage a team with competing priorities & providing level-headed guidance during unexpected events

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MBA and/ or Professional certification (CPA/CMA/Qualified Accounting certificate) + relevant experience in cost reporting/scm and food/grocery/manufacturing/ecommerce industries
• Experience designing and building financial dashboards and ad hoc analysis using data wrangling and reporting tools like Alteryx and Tableau
• Knowledge of IFRS
• Proven ability to develop and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, and problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively while applying excellent business judgment
• Excellent oral and written skills to communicate complex issues and influence others internally and externally, with a customer-focused, professional demeanor
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability gain respect of senior management
• Ability to work successfully in an ambiguous environment including an ability to meet tight deadlines, prioritize workload and drive projects to completion
• Ability to travel; up to 25% travel may be required within the US

You'll Get...

• Great compensation package & 401k company match that vests immediately upon participation
• Generous parental leave of 16 weeks & PTO policy
• $0 monthly premium and other flexible health plans
• 75% discount on your subscription to HelloFresh (and other product plans)
• Snacks, cold brew on tap & monthly catered lunches
• Company sponsored outings & Employee Resource Groups
• Collaborative team environment within a company that continues to experience growth

$120-130K Base + This position is eligible to participate in the HelloFresh equity program, contingent on Supervisory Board Approval.