VP, Finance

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About Us

The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a digitally-native consumer products company born in the Gen Z era to make purpose-driven consumer products designed for all people. Since its launch in 2012, Honest has been dedicated to creating thoughtfully formulated, safe and effective personal care, beauty, baby and household products, which are available via honest.com, third-party ecommerce partners and approximately 50,000 retail locations across the United States, Canada and Europe. Based in Los Angeles, CA, the Company's mission, to inspire everyone to love living consciously, is driven by its values of transparency, trust, sustainability and a deep sense of purpose around what matters most to its consumers: their health, their families and their homes. For more information about the Honest Standard and the company, please visit www.honest.com.

Our Mission

We're on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We're a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all. 

The Role

The Honest Company is seeking a talented VP Finance to join its Finance team. This role will have high impact and will partner with senior leaders throughout the organization to set our strategy and drive key business initiatives across the company. This position will provide insights into current processes, recommend areas to implement CPG industry best practices and be proactive in creating tools that will drive improved decision making.

The Finance team is made up of problem solvers – focusing on enhancing The Honest Company’s growth and profitability. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a dynamic finance team in a fast-paced environment and own high-priority, high-impact projects, while maintaining our spirit of fun, energy, and passion. The role requires superior analytical, presentation and leadership skills, as well as a demonstrated ability to collaborate across a diverse range of commercial, CPG brand portfolio and corporate stakeholders.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Manage and lead all elements of The Honest Company’s financial planning process with a strong connection between long-term strategy and execution
• Ensure delivery of long-term objectives through strategy, initiative planning and resourcing, and proper controls
• Lead the finance team in building and maintaining financial projections in support of the company’s strategic plan, long-range plan, annual operating plan and regular forecasts
• Develop and manage the company’s cash flow and balance sheet planning models and make recommendations on appropriate capital structure aligned with strategic objectives
• Lead all aspects of financial design for product initiative launches, including pricing, marketing support models, project financials, ROI and optimal cost structure
• Lead the development of the brand portfolio analytics and financial insights to support strategic market penetration plans in retail distribution
• Proactive identification and valuation analysis of business issues and opportunities for driving growth in-stores and trade efficiencies
• Partner with R&D to support New Product Development process and business case development
• Proactive identification of operating cost savings initiatives and development of productivity measurement tools in the areas of supply chain, procurement, technology and administrative functions
• Partner with technology and operating leadership on the identification and business case build for system implementations that enable the operating teams to achieve commercial excellence, such Sales Planning, Demand Planning, Trade Promotions Management, Product Lifecycle Management and Consumer Insights & Analytics
• Build and maintain strong partnership with Accounting and SEC reporting to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting during monthly and quarterly close process
• Develop a deep understanding of industry trends, benchmark company financial models as well as competitive threats and opportunities
• Prepare presentations for senior management and the Board of Directors and provide analyses and recommendations to assist with strategic decision-making
• Oversee the shareholder return model, board alignment of sales and profit targets to accelerate profitable growth, while delivering against investor expectations
• Embark on the creation of a Corporate Development discipline that identifies potential target businesses aligned with strategic objectives and oversee the M&A pre-diligence, on-going strategic assessment and monitoring, management of investment banker activities and deal funding recommendations

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Math, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
• 15+ years of finance, planning and analysis or strategy experience in leading consumer package goods companies
• Strong financial acumen and grasp of corporate finance fundamentals, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and valuation methods
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including experience building and maintaining financial models
• Strong problem solving skills such as prioritization, critical thinking and hypothesis development
• Superior verbal and written communications skills, particularly the ability to develop cogent arguments and present them concisely to a range of stakeholders, including executives
• Humble attitude with a willingness to shift from high-level strategic thinking to stepping in and helping to drive implementation alongside functional teams

Compensation 

The pay range for this role is $225,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation is based on many factors including but not limited to depth of experience, skill level, ability, knowledge, education, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. 

The total rewards package for this position may also include base, annual incentive plan, benefits, retirement plan, equity, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Benefits & Perks

We offer a competitive benefits package including comprehensive health and wellness coverage, 401k with company match, wellness incentives including a monthly fitness reimbursement and onsite fitness classes, options for education reimbursement, and a discount on all products. We value work-life balance and offer a generous and flexible vacation policy. Thinking about adding little ones to your family? Honest offers generous maternity and paternity leave. We love the furry kids too and offer pet insurance so your companions are well taken care of.

California Privacy Rights Notice for Californian Job Applicants and Prospective Talent

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), The Honest Company, Inc. (“Honest” or “us” or “we”) is required to inform California residents who are our job applicants or prospective talent (together “job applicants” or “you”) about the categories of personal information we may collect about you and the purposes for which we use this information.  Click here if you are a California resident to read disclosures required by the CCPA. Note this notice applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA. 

Categories of Personal Information We Collect. We may collect the following categories of personal information about our job applicants, who are California residents:

• Name
• Signature
• Social Security Number
• Email and mailing address
• Telephone number
• Education
• Employment history

How We Use Job Applicants' Personal Data.  We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes.  These business purposes include, without limitation:

• Processing evaluating your application to determine your qualifications for the role to which you’ve applied, and communicating with you about your application, including to check references or your background, and communicate with you about other jobs that may interest you.
• Other business purposes as identified in the CCPA, which include:
• Auditing related to our interactions with you; 
• Legal compliance
• Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
• Debugging;
• Performing services for us, such as analytics;
• Internal research for technological improvement; and
• Internal operations.

Other Interactions with The Honest Company.  More information about our privacy practices can be found in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

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