Finance Manager
Anomalie Advisors is representing a high-quality, private equity-backed materials import and distribution business with over $200 million in revenue and a clear value creation mandate. This Finance Manager role reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and offers strong visibility across the organization. Requires product/inventory management experience.
This is an operations-focused finance role centered on improving and scaling an existing financial planning and analysis infrastructure. This is not a build-from-scratch role. The focus is on elevating insight, strengthening forecasting discipline, and driving decision-grade analytics across the business. The role requires a strong understanding of how operational drivers such as pricing, sourcing, inventory, and customer mix translate into financial performance.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning and Analysis Ownership
• Own and refine forecasting, budgeting, and reporting cadence across the business
• Implement and maintain a rolling forecast framework with clear assumptions
• Improve forecast accuracy through structured variance analysis and forward-looking insight
• Build and maintain driver-based models across volume, price, mix, and cost
• Ensure forecasts tie directly to operational inputs and financial outputs
Margin, Pricing, and Analytics
• Deliver structured margin bridge analysis across price, mix, volume, cost, and productivity
• Build visibility into SKU, customer, and channel-level profitability
• Support pricing strategy and commercial decisions with fact-based analysis
• Identify drivers of margin expansion and deterioration
• Translate operational activity into clear financial implications
Working Capital and Cash Flow Insight
• Establish and track key metrics across receivables, payables, inventory, and cash conversion
• Analyze inventory levels, turns, and working capital efficiency
• Support initiatives to improve cash flow, collections, and payment timing
• Embed working capital considerations into forecasting and liquidity discussions
• Provide visibility into timing and magnitude of cash needs
Planning and Value Creation
• Support development of a driver-based annual operating plan and longer-range outlook
• Contribute to initiatives tied to margin expansion, operational performance, and cash generation
• Partner closely with leadership to support strategic and operational decision making
• Help prioritize initiatives based on financial return and business impact
Private Equity Reporting and Readiness
• Support development of consistent, investor-grade reporting and analytics
• Maintain outputs aligned with diligence and Quality of Earnings expectations
• Contribute to building a consistent data set to support lenders, investors, and future transactions
• Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, and aligned with sponsor expectations
Qualifications
• 4 to 8+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis or corporate finance
• Experience owning forecasts and delivering business-facing insights
• Strong modeling capability with clear understanding of business drivers
• Experience in a distribution, supply chain, or product-based environment strongly preferred
• Advanced Excel skills required
• Experience working in a private equity-backed or performance-driven environment is a plus
Profile
• Hands-on with strong ownership mindset
• Able to connect financial results to operational drivers
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, responsive environment where priorities shift
• Strong communicator who can translate financial data into clear, actionable insight
• Able to step in quickly, respond to leadership needs
No H1B sponsorship
*Not seeking recent banking candidates.