Analyst, Fp&A

About Gorilla Commerce

At Gorilla Commerce, we’re committed to bringing you durable, high-quality products at reasonable prices that make everyday life easier. Our vision is to continually innovate and improve our products based on customer needs and industry trends. We are the owners and developers of brands including Gorilla Grip, Sofa Shield, Kangaroo, Grip Master, Ninja, Home Genie, Mighty Monkey, The Connecticut Home Company and LaLa Loom.

Make Stuff Happen

Based in Westport, CT, Gorilla Commerce is a Top 10 Branded Amazon US seller with rapid growth plans. We’re a fast-paced environment with a relentless focus on the customer. We are a dynamic group of dog lovers who operate at the intersection of creativity and analytics to create and provide obsession-worthy products that consumers demand.

What you’ll do

• Establish and maintain financial and operational reporting to measure business performance
• Leverage data and systems tools (e.g., NetSuite, Power-BI, etc.) to build and manage financial and operational reporting
• Analyze SKU profitability to assist in the development of meaningful, actionable, and timely actions for leadership to take
• Support the planning and forecasting processes, partnering cross-functionally with departments to build departmental budgets
• Oversee department budgets / capex, scheduling monthly connects for us to have discussions and providing driver commentary
• Assist in preparing performance analyses highlighting monthly, quarterly, and annual performance relative to Plan and other comparison views
• Form financial results commentary for the leadership team (MD&A) in various contexts (including actuals vs plan, actuals vs prior month, actuals vs prior year, etc.), partnering and aligning with the accounting team
• Helps analyze day-to-day business results
• Builds models/analyses to track strategic initiatives and margin impact
• Support the establishment of COGS Standard values for products at the SKU level
• Create, and analyze product mix analyses to provide insights into results
• Support the leadership team in preparation of presentations to the board of directors
• Take a leading role in Ad Hoc requests when needed, partnering with all other teams

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• Prior finance / FP&A experience; E-commerce and/or CPG experience are valued significantly
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Identifies informational needs and efficiently organizes, analyzes, and builds reports from large data sets in Excel or in internal systems (e.g., NetSuite, Power-BI, Toolio)
• Demonstrate strong intellectual curiosity that translates into finding new approaches to business issues
• Displays strong attention to detail
• Establishes credibility with colleagues and partners across the organization
• Strong interpersonal ability, with effective written and oral communication skills
• Thrives in a high-performance, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment
• Balances multiple projects to meet deadlines, showing the ability to think and act independently, and with limited supervision

Job Details

• This position is based in Westport, CT. You will be required to come into the Westport office 2 days a week.

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