Ketone-IQ · 1 day ago
Director of Finance & Analytics
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
5+ years expKetone-IQ is revolutionizing the way the world thinks about energy, aiming to disrupt the energy market with their high-performance fuel. As the Director of Finance & Analytics, you will support the company's growth through strategic finance, analytics, team management, and capitalization strategy, ensuring financial excellence and effective decision-making across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Own and continuously improve the operating model and forecasting engine across Retail, DTC, and Amazon, ensuring assumptions reflect the reality of rapid growth
Run Month’s End Close and forecasting process from start to finish, ensuring adherence to a tight timeline for closing the books and sharing out updated forecast by the 15th of the month
Build standardized retailer/channel P&Ls that clearly show full gross-to-net economics: list price → trade → net revenue → COGS → freight → variable opex → contribution margin
Develop and maintain trade spend ROI models by customer and promotion type (TPR, scan-downs, billbacks, MDF, EDLP, displays, etc.), using historical performance and test-and-learn discipline
Build and own a company-wide omnichannel Analytics Engine that unifies DTC, Amazon, and Retail performance into a single set of KPIs and dashboards and provides daily guidance on deployment of capital
Identify repeatable workflows (month-end prep, variance flags, approvals, A/R visibility, trade tracking) and implement scalable automation with strong controls and documentation (e.g., Make/Zapier/n8n/Parabola and modern BI/AI tooling)
Deliver decision-grade analytics across channel/customer/product (e.g., retail velocity drivers, contribution margin, cohort/LTV, CAC thresholds, pack size tests, DTC & Amazon performance, etc)
Foster a culture of financial excellence and continuous improvement by providing guidance, coaching, and support across the entire company
Assess current resources and progressively build, direct, and lead a lean Finance team that future proofs us from excess headcount in Finance
Evaluate and help shape the company’s capitalization strategy, including the tradeoffs and sequencing of working capital facilities, ABL/factoring, term debt, and equity financing, and how each option impacts runway, flexibility, and cost of capital
Oversee cash flow management, capital allocation, and working capital optimization to support the business’s growth trajectory
Collaborate with Accounting to ensure proper GAAP treatment of expenses and expenditures
Maintain high Accounting integrity for effective audit preparation
Qualification
Required
Extensive background working at or with high-growth, omnichannel CPG brands
5+ years in FP&A/strategic finance at a CPG/FMCG company, or in investment banking, private equity, or venture capital with meaningful consumer/CPG exposure
Demonstrated ability to implement workflow automation and AI-enabled processes to scale finance efficiently (hands-on with modern automation/BI/AI tools)
Exceptional underwriting and investment-style analytical skills—able to evaluate initiatives like an investor (unit economics, downside cases, return profile, capital efficiency) and make clear go/no-go recommendations
Tech and data-savvy with expertise with Excel, Quickbooks, Power BI, ERP Systems, and other finance programs. You could show up to the annual Excel competition and walk off with the trophy!
Data-driven, quantitative thinker with the ability to think strategically and qualitatively in both present and long term
Proven experience managing and building financial Operating Models
High business acumen with a focus on profitability (EBITDA)
Process-oriented with the ability to identify, define, and implement scalable processes
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
Passion for health and wellness
Company
Ketone-IQ
Ketone-IQ is an energy science company redefining what's possible.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$8.22MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2020-11-27Series Unknown· $5.62M
2017-03-15Seed
2015-12-05Seed· $2.6M
Leadership Team
Michael Brandt
CEO & Co-Founder
Geoffrey Woo
Chairman & Co-founder
Recent News
2024-05-20
2024-01-29
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