Senior Director of Finance

* This is a 6 month maternity cover*

About Us

Kinship’s mission is to support, educated and engage pet parents at every step along their journey as a single source of truth for pet care via expert advice, curated, customized content, and 24/7 access to licensed veterinarians, nutrition and behavior experts. We currently operate under a house-of-brands structure, with Kinship being the behind-the-scenes force that owns and drives our four consumer-facing brands: Adopt-a-Pet (adoption platform), The Wildest (content site with expert health, behavior, nutrition, etc advice), and The Kin (televet chat/app, record storage, personalized recommendation, PetExec (empowers organizations of all sizes to dedicate more time to what truly matters – pets)

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Lead the remainder of the annual budget process ensuring internal reporting is set-up, financials align with guidance from the parent company, and internal management. This may include: decks, modeling scenarios, ad hoc analysis, etc
• Lead and support the close process. Ensure actuals are accurate, escalate any issues to respective parties, and all submissions are delivered as per parent company’s deadlines
• Lead forecasting process. Work closely with budget owners and accounting to understand actuals and work through forecasting with a tight turnaround timeframe. High focus on accuracy as we approach year-end. Ensure all submissions & ad hoc analysis are delivered on time to the parent company.
• Lead and support year-end processes for FP&A, GL accounting, operational accounting. This may include: leading YE wrap up decks & narrative for senior audience, supporting 1099 process with accounting, parent company’s internal audit compliance, etc.    
• Experience building decks that link business objectives/story to financials
• Experience with headcount modeling & scenario building
• Comfortable with building models, working with dirty data, and synthesizing large amounts of data into actionable next steps  
• Comfort level working through high level scenarios/conversations with leadership and modeling corresponding long range plan (3+yrs)
• Ad hoc analysis as needed

Experience Required

• Prior experience managing Accounting and FP&A teams & processes
• Prior experience successfully working across all levels from leadership team to IC
• Prior experience managing multiple high visibility deliverables under tight deadlines 
• Attention to detail is critical for this role
• Anaplan and Adaptive experience is a plus

The New York, New York contract salary range for this position is $100-115 hourly, commensurate with experience.