FP&A Manager (Remote)

Company

Kathy Kuo Home is a luxury online home furnishings destination on a mission to help everyone #lovewhereyoulive. Kathy Kuo Home carries a highly curated collection of home furnishings while offering clients premium interior design services and easy-to-shop look books. Kathy Kuo Home believes that shopping for great design should be fun, easy, and inspiring, so it provides everything from design inspiration to flawless execution in one vertically integrated platform, allowing customers to create a space they will cherish for years to come.

Curated Collection and Ecommerce

Under the direction of celebrated designer Kathy Kuo, the company serves as the premier online boutique for luxury furniture, lighting, and home decor. The assortment is curated with a design-first approach that offers exclusive access to impeccably-crafted designer pieces from top manufacturers and artisans around the world.

Full Service Interior Design Studio

In addition to its aspirational collection, Kathy Kuo Home is also a full-service interior design studio with a robust menu of Design Services. Kathy Kuo Home’s roster of professional interior designers combine a high-touch, personalized approach with the latest in design technology to help customers with all of their design needs—from small updates and refreshes, to gut renovations and building entirely new homes.

To the Trade Business

Kathy Kuo Home offers a top-tier To the Trade solution that provides the residential and hospitality / contract communities with an inspiring selection of luxe homewares and furnishings at competitive trade prices and full end to end receiving, consolidation, and white glove shipping installation solutions.

Combining service, commerce, logistics, and technology, Kathy Kuo Home is the ultimate one-stop home and design destination.

Job Overview

This role will report into the CFO and work with key business partners to support the financial operations or the organization including driving the budget, forecasting, monthly financial close, reporting processes and ad hoc business initiatives with a focus on supply chain and logistics. Using your business expertise, you will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of strategic decisions.

The role sits in the Finance department yet interfaces across technology, merchandising, supply chain, marketing and other business functions. As such, it provides a multitude of opportunities for learning and growth.

You Will:

• Drive the financial planning and analysis process, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, to support strategic decision-making and drive business growth
• Spearhead the annual budgeting process, working closely with department heads to develop accurate and achievable budgets, driving best in class practices
• Work closely with the CFO in delivering presentational outputs for discussion with the Leadership team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including accounting, operations, and marketing, to drive business initiatives and achieve financial goal
• Analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing and new programs and develop strategies further leveraging company objectives
• Monitor and analyze sales, margin, and inventory performance, identifying risks and opportunities to improve profitability and operational efficiency, including marketing spend and metrics around CAC and ROAS
• Design financial models and analytical tools to support decision-making and evaluate the financial impact of various initiatives
• Help drive finance discipline, fact-based decision-making and financial visibility
• Transform complex data sets into simple visuals and dashboards for analytical and non-analytical teammates
  
  
  

You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting / Finance or related field
• 4 - 5 years relevant planning / analysis experience, preferably in retail and D2C industries
• Demonstrated track record of experience in complex financial planning and analysis
• Proven ability working in a hands-on fast-moving environment to agreed deadlines that may require a quick turnaround
• Ability to present ideas in a user-friendly language
• Strong business and financial acumen. Proven ability to think creatively with strong problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• ERP / Salesforce experience preferred
  
  
  

Benefits:

• Remote first (9-6 EST hours) with corporate offices located in NYC. Potential for hybrid in future
• Competitive Salary starting at $120,000
• 401K Matching
• Health, Dental, Vision Benefits
• Paid Time Off
  
  
  

Culture and Values

The Kathy Kuo Home team members are design-obsessed, entrepreneurial-minded and empathy-oriented individuals that seek to create more impact and beauty in the world of interiors. As one of the fastest growing online companies in the home and garden space, it is a fantastic time to join Kathy Kuo Home’s fast-paced, nimble, and creative team.

Core Values

We Employ First Principles Design Thinking | First principles design thinking involves breaking down a complex problem or situation into its fundamental components and then reassembling them from scratch by challenging assumptions and developing a deep understanding of underlying principles.

We are Limitless Learners | We are curious by nature and aim to be 1% better every day by learning 1 new thing a day.

We Strive To Be Self-Aware | We are self-reflective and deeply curious about ourselves. We believe with a deep awareness of oneself, can one develop awareness for others.

We Play the Long Game | We have an infinite horizon for growth and lean into business decisions that have a long-lasting impact on brand growth

Core Principles

We have Deep Kindness and Respect for All | Our business model is supported by the relationships that we have with our customers, vendors, and shippers. We treat our team members, shippers, and vendors with the same spirit of kindness, willingness to collaborate, and respect for their needs.

We Lead with Empathy | When faced with hard choices, we lean into empathy and compassion first as our primary decision drivers. We proactively reach out to celebrate each other's success and buoy those that need us.

We Require Feedback | Giving and receiving feedback promotes a culture of self-awareness, growth, and humility, the foundations of strong inter-department connection.

We are Humble and Hungry | We operate with a startup mentality, scrappy and intentional with how we use our human and financial resources no matter what scale of business we are in.

We Audit the Details - Design and Service | We deeply audit all details and have hyper-awareness of process, cause, and effect and how this relates to our design and service quality output.

We Keep Calm / Grace Under Fire | We solve problems by being self-aware, open-minded, and accepting of different ideas and opinions and strive to be calm, reflective, and not defensive.