VP of Finance
Sunday · Boulder, CO · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteFinanceFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About Sunday" description, then "Objective", "Responsibilities", "Management Responsibilities", "Functional Competencies", "Competencies". Also maybe "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule" not present, so omit those sections. Also need to include headings for sections present: About the role? The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). The posting has "About Sunday" (company description) maybe treat as "About the role"? Actually "About Sunday" is company overview, not role. But we can still use heading "About the role"? The instruction says use those headings as examples, but we should only include sections when posting has real content. The posting includes "About Sunday" which is about company; we could map to "About the role" or maybe "About Sunday". But they said use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should use those exact headings if applicable. The posting does not have explicit "About the role" but we have "About Sunday". Could treat as "About the role"? Might be okay. However they said do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. Not relevant.
We need to include sections: About the role (company description), Responsibilities, Management Responsibilities (maybe part of responsibilities?), Functional Competencies, Competencies. Also maybe "Qualifications" could be derived from Functional Competencies? But they said only include when posting has real specific content. Functional Competencies list qualifications. Could map to "Qualifications". But they gave example headings; we can use "Qualifications" for functional competencies. And "Skills" maybe for key characteristics? But better to follow the posting's own headings: "About Sunday", "Objective", "Responsibilities", "Management Responsibilities", "Functional Competencies", "Competencies". However instruction says use those example headings; but not strict? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings, but we can also use others if needed? Safer to map content to those headings.
Let's map:
- About the role: combine "About Sunday" and "Objective" maybe? Actually "About the role" could be the objective description. We'll put the objective paragraph under About the role.
- Responsibilities: the big list under "Responsibilities:" (the long bullet list). Use - .
- Requirements/Qualifications: maybe "Functional Competencies" (experience, knowledge, etc.) treat as Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe "Key characteristics" under Functional Competencies? But we already used Qualifications. Could also have Skills for "Key characteristics". But to avoid thin sections, maybe combine.
- Competencies: the list "Communication & Collaboration..." etc. Could be Skills.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include boilerplate like "Powered by JazzHR M0jW48Xvgv". Remove that.
We need to preserve all substantive information.
Let's extract content:
About Sunday paragraph: "Sunday is on a mission to empower everyone to care for their little plot of land. The simple act of getting outside, getting your hands dirty, and caring for your home is more than it seems. It's a reconnection to something written in our DNA, and it's at the core of us working together toward a better planet. We're bringing safer, science-backed products and personalized, data-driven guidance to the American yard. Our in-house R&D team builds the products. The largest soil database ever created, along with Sunny, our AI yard companion, tailors a plan to every home. In 2024 we helped our one millionth customer. Today Sunday offers 75+ products across lawn, garden, pest control, and pet, sold online and in about 7,000 stores nationwide, including Home Depot, Walmart, Target, and Costco. On any spring weekend, roughly 750 people are out in their yard using Sunday at any given moment. Sunday is becoming a household name, and we're making a dent."
Objective paragraph: "Objective: The VP of Finance will work closely with the leadership team to drive financial and strategic leadership across our business. This role will own our FP&A function, ensuring a scalable approach to monthly budgeting, long-term planning, strategic corporate finance, and financial operations. A core focus of this role is disciplined cash management and driving the business toward its EBITDA targets; building the forecasting rigor, cost discipline, and financial visibility needed to hit our profitability goals while funding continued growth and retail expansion. The role will involve providing key financial insights, budgetary guidance, and decision-making support to the highest levels of the organization. The individual will help direct the Strategic Plan and Monthly Forecast Updates. You will proactively identify business opportunities and recommend actions to mitigate risks. Strong capabilities to work across the organization will be an integral part of this role. Intellectual horsepower and top-notch financial skills are crucial in this role; and the individual must be comfortable in a fluid environment and be adaptable to change. As an executive in the business, you are expected to drive long term, cross-functional strategy, offer subject matter expertise across levels, and lead your department to high performance."
Responsibilities list: after "Responsibilities:" there is a long paragraph with many sentences each starting with a verb. We need to turn each into
- . Let's split by sentences that start with a capital letter after a period? We'll approximate.
List items:
- Responsible for overseeing and refining Sunday’s financial model in partnership with internal cross-functional teams, including building the scenario-based EBITDA and cash flow models used to guide company strategy
- Own the Financial Management of key financial processes, including but not limited to forecasting, budget planning, performance reporting, and others
- Build and maintain a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast and longer-term cash runway model, providing early visibility into funding needs and cash risk
- Own the EBITDA model and bridge tracking performance against target, identifying and quantifying the drivers of variance, and modeling the impact of strategic and operational decisions on profitability
- Own the financial metrics and reporting package shared with investors, lenders, and the Board of Directors, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery
- Lead capital and treasury strategy, including renewing and restructuring debt facilities, raising capital, and supporting the company through a potential exit or liquidity event
- Partner with the commercial team to drive disciplined capital allocation decisions, including trade-offs across business segments
- Support the monthly performance reporting activities including timely and insightful commentary on performance compared to the prior year and to estimates, with a focus on progress against EBITDA targets
- Analyze daily/weekly/monthly sales performance, highlighting material variances to expectation and resulting actions required. This includes defining, refining, and interpreting the financial impact of KPIs
- Support creation and refinement of Gross Margin analysis tools, clearly understanding COGS, variances, and defining the impact Price, Volume and Product Mix
- Evaluate current systems and processes and recommend appropriate changes to enhance the monthly forecast process
- Partner with accounting team, oversee daily, weekly, monthly accounting and bookkeeping processes and ensure that our financial reporting is done in an accurate and timely manner
- Own Sunday's working capital and cash management strategy. Modeling the cash conversion cycle, managing liquidity and banking relationships, and working with vendors to optimize payment terms and cash efficiency
- Optimize Selling, General, & Administrative spend through strategic and analytical evaluation of current spend, identification of improvements and efficiencies and execution of activities to improve return on investment and EBITDA contribution
- Identify future opportunities and/or issues, and articulate strong and clear positions based on sound judgment, and the balance of both short-term and longer-term impact
- Partner with all members of the senior management team and other company leadership on assessing and analyzing critical business decisions
- Work cross functionally with other departments within the company on various projects
Management Responsibilities: after "Management Responsibilities:" there is a list.
Items:
- Daily management of the Assistant Controller and Sr. FP&A Analyst
- Meet with each of your reports to create action plans, check-in on project/performance, and discuss opportunities for improvement
- Ensure that your reports have the resources that they need to constantly innovative the standards and processes
- Coach and manage your team through technical obstacles, and provide direction for improvement
- Have a deep understanding of your reports focus areas and enable them to push through technical and communication obstacles
- Advise people managers on strategies to advance their teams and cultivate their development as leaders
- Implement processes and systems that scale and support a high-functioning financial department
- Provide oversight and support into hiring decisions for your department
- Support of the teams: Have the flexibility to seek out, study, and implement new leadership initiatives within the team
- Implement a culture where more routine feedback is embraced.
Functional Competencies: after "Functional Competencies:" there is a paragraph with bullet-like items separated by line breaks? Actually it's a paragraph: "8+ years of experience in finance/accountingDeep knowledge of the subscription, ecommerce, and CPG industries and the intricacies of these industries from a financial perspectiveDirect experience with debt financing, capital raises, or transaction processes such as an exit or M&AComfort with the startup environment - you are able to adapt and change directions quickly while supporting your team in transitionsExcellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Looker, and Sunday’s data technology stackKey characteristics: detail-oriented, assiduous, drive for results, passionate, positive, collaborative, curious, flexible, and empatheticAbility to prioritize and drive many projects simultaneously with sense of urgencyRoll up the sleeves, positive, can-do spirit! You look forward to being part of a small, scrappy team and are willing to pitch in with whatever needs to get doneUndergraduate Degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics"
We need to split into list items. Let's parse:
- 8+ years of experience in finance/accounting
- Deep knowledge of the subscription, ecommerce, and CPG industries and the intricacies of these industries from a financial perspective
- Direct experience with debt financing, capital raises, or transaction processes such as an exit or M&A
- Comfort with the startup environment - you are able to adapt and change directions quickly while supporting your team in transitions
- Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Looker, and Sunday’s data technology stack
- Key characteristics: detail-oriented, assiduous, drive for results, passionate, positive, collaborative, curious, flexible, and empathetic
- Ability to prioritize and drive many projects simultaneously with sense of urgency
- Roll up the sleeves, positive, can-do spirit! You look forward to being part of a small, scrappy team and are willing to pitch in with whatever needs to get done
- Undergraduate Degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics
Competencies: after "Competencies:" list: "Communication & CollaborationExecution & ResultsVision & DirectionInfluenceInspirational LeadershipBuild Talent & Develop People". These are likely separate items.
Split:
- Communication & Collaboration
- Execution & Results
- Vision & Direction
- Influence
- Inspirational Leadership
- Build Talent & Develop People
Now we need to output HTML with
headings for each section we include.
We need to decide which headings to use. Let's use:
About the role
(contains About Sunday + Objective)
Responsibilities
Management Responsibilities
(maybe could be part of Responsibilities but we have separate)
Qualifications
(Functional Competencies)
Skills
(Key characteristics? but we already included them in Qualifications. Could instead put Skills for Key characteristics and keep Qualifications for experience/education. But to avoid thin sections, maybe combine all functional competencies into Qualifications. Then we could have a separate section for Competencies (the behavioral competencies) as Skills.
Thus: