Vice President FP&A

About the role

OLIPOP is seeking a strategic, commercially minded, and highly operational Vice President of FP&A to lead enterprise financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision support through the company's next stage of scale.

You will serve as a senior finance leader and trusted partner to the CFO, executive leadership team, and cross-functional business leaders. You will own the company’s long-range planning process, enterprise financial model, forecasting operating rhythm, board and executive reporting, and strategic financial analysis that informs critical investment, growth, and profitability decisions.

This role requires a leader who can translate company strategy into financial priorities, build scalable FP&A capabilities, influence senior stakeholders through data-backed recommendations, and create the systems, routines, and team structure needed to support a high-growth CPG business.

You will be expected to balance strategic vision with operational discipline, bringing strong judgment, executive presence, and a clear point of view to ambiguous and high-impact business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Financial Strategy & Long-Range Planning
• Lead OLIPOP’s long-range planning process, partnering with executive and functional leaders to translate company strategy into multi-year financial plans, resource allocation priorities, and measurable business outcomes.
• Own and evolve OLIPOP’s enterprise financial model, ensuring it serves as a dynamic decision-making tool for growth planning, profitability, capital allocation, and scenario analysis.
• Partner with senior leadership to evaluate strategic tradeoffs across revenue growth, margin expansion, operating expense investment, working capital, and organizational scale.
• Develop financial frameworks that help the business anticipate future risks, opportunities, and investment needs as OLIPOP continues to grow.
• Financial Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
• Own the company-wide forecasting and planning operating rhythm across gross revenue, net revenue, trade, COGS, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, cash flow, balance sheet, and key business drivers.
• Lead the annual budget, reforecasting, and monthly performance management processes, ensuring cross-functional leaders have clear visibility into financial expectations, tradeoffs, and accountability.
• Establish clear financial governance, timelines, tools, and reporting standards that improve forecast accuracy, business ownership, and decision quality.
• Compare monthly operating results against budget and forecast, identify key variances, and partner with business owners to understand drivers, risks, and corrective actions.
• Executive, Board & Investor Readiness
• Lead preparation of board, executive, and corporate reporting materials, ensuring financial narratives are clear, accurate, actionable, and tied to enterprise priorities.
• Translate complex financial and operational insights into executive-ready recommendations that support high-quality decisions.
• Serve as a senior finance partner in high-stakes discussions, bringing strong judgment, business context, and a clear articulation of financial implications.
• Strategic Finance & Decision Support
• Lead financial modeling and analysis for strategic decisions, including growth investments, new products, channel expansion, pricing strategy, margin optimization, tradeoffs, and process improvements.
• Evaluate profitability by product, channel, customer, SKU, region, and other relevant dimensions to guide investment decisions and commercial strategy.
• Partner with Sales, Revenue Growth Management, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Accounting to evaluate business performance and identify opportunities to improve profitable growth.
• Develop and improve pricing, margin, and investment models for existing products, new products, channels, and customer opportunities.
• Partner with revenue and commercial teams on deal pricing, trade investment reviews, commission structures, and customer-level financial decision support.
• Finance Operating Model, Systems & Scale
• Design and implement scalable FP&A processes, tools, reporting infrastructure, and operating rhythms that improve business visibility, speed, accuracy, and decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen financial systems, planning tools, data quality, and reporting automation to support company growth.
• Build repeatable workflows that enable disciplined business reviews, faster insight generation, and stronger accountability across functions.
• Lead ad hoc strategic analyses and special projects that support enterprise priorities and evolving business needs.
• Team Leadership & Capability Building
• Build, structure, and develop a high-performing FP&A team aligned to OLIPOP’s strategy, business complexity, and future scale.
• Establish clear roles, expectations, development plans, and operating cadences that strengthen team effectiveness and business partnership.
• Coach and develop finance talent, creating a culture of accountability, curiosity, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, and strong stakeholder partnership.
• Model OLIPOP’s leadership expectations by leading with clarity, trust, inclusion, sound judgment, and a strong ownership mindset.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Executive Partnership
• Serve as a senior connector across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, People, and Executive Leadership, ensuring financial insights are embedded into business planning and decision-making.
• Influence senior leaders through clear financial storytelling, data-backed recommendations, and balanced assessment of risk, opportunity, and long-term impact.
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities with maturity, transparency, and a company-first mindset.
• Champion OLIPOP’s culture and values by creating clarity, raising the bar for financial discipline, and helping teams connect day-to-day decisions to company goals.

Requirements

• 12–15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, or related functions.
• Experience leading FP&A in a high-growth CPG, food & beverage, consumer products, retail, marketplace, or similarly complex operating environment strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to own enterprise planning, forecasting, financial modeling, budget management, and executive-level business performance reporting.
• Strong commercial and operational finance acumen, including experience with revenue planning, margin analysis, pricing, tradeoffs, customer/channel profitability, working capital, and investment decision support.
• Demonstrated experience preparing executive, board, investor, or lender-facing financial materials with clear narratives and actionable recommendations.
• Strong understanding of accounting, budgeting, cost control, and finance principles, including GAAP.
• Track record of building scalable FP&A processes, tools, systems, reporting routines, and financial governance in a growing organization.
• Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing teams; able to create clarity, accountability, and development pathways during periods of change and scale.
• Strategic and effective communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, simplify complex financial concepts, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong judgment and decision quality; able to evaluate complex tradeoffs, assess risk, and recommend practical paths forward in ambiguous situations.
• High emotional intelligence and cultural competency, with the ability to build trust, resolve tension productively, and partner effectively across functions.
• Strategic and hands-on: comfortable shaping enterprise-level finance strategy while also diving into models, details, and operating mechanics when needed.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field preferred; MBA and/or CPA a plus.
• Comfortable operating in a remote-first, fast-paced, highly collaborative environment using tools such as Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, Slack, Zoom, NetSuite, Claude AI (other exposure to AI tools) and financial planning/reporting platforms.
• Flexibility to travel as needed for company meetings, team offsites, board preparation, and cross-functional planning sessions. Estimated Travel:10-15%