Finance Manager

Reports To: VP, Finance & Technology

Direct Reports: Senior Accountant and Accountants

Classification: Exempt

Ciranda is a company rooted in five core values which include:
Curiosity, Courage, Collaboration, Clarity, and Character. These values shape Ciranda’s culture and drive our success.

The Finance Manager provides financial leadership and decision support, partnering with functional leaders to drive future outcomes. This role transforms financial and operational data into clear insights, forecasts, and actionable recommendations to improve performance, agility, and risk management, in close partnership with the Senior Accountant to ensure recommendations are grounded in accurate close results.

• Own budget and forecast assumptions, scenarios, and sensitivities, and explain key drivers.
• Translate close results into an executive narrative (what/why/so-what/now-what) and deliver executive readouts and decision memos that present options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and decisions needed.
• Lead pricing and margin strategy, including exception decisioning and tradeoff analysis.
• Establish decision guardrails and thresholds and evaluate risk tolerance.
• Create decision-support reporting that delivers actionable performance insights and set benchmarks and promote best practices for reporting and performance measurement.
• Present financial updates and analysis to senior leaders.
• Run the forecast cadence and cross‑functional planning calendar, including monthly and quarterly business review rhythms.
• Support audit and compliance readiness by owning CPA relationship strategy, surfacing risks early, and managing escalations and decision points in partnership with the Senior Accountant.
• Monitor balance sheet risk and working capital integrity with the Senior Accountant.
• Facilitate the quarterly pricing team process for spot buy system pricing.
• Align insights and recommendations to verified actuals through tight handoffs with the Senior Accountant.
• Complete ad‑hoc analysis and special projects as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required.
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, finance business partnering, and/or cost accounting, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and executive reporting.
• 5+ years of supervisory and team development experience.

• Drives Results:
  Understands and demonstrates sound judgement, fiscal competence, and business knowledge to optimize the quality of operations.
• Aligns Execution:
  Focuses efforts to efficiently achieve measurable and customer‑driven results consistent with the organizations, mission, and operating plans.
• Thinks Strategically:
  Supports and promotes the organization’s vision and values, creates a compelling future state of the unit, and understands the necessity of change considering internal and external influences.
• Models Accountability:
  Holds self and others accountable for measurable, high‑quality, timely, and cost‑effective results, and accepts responsibility for failures.
• Effectively Decisive:
  Makes well‑informed, effective, and timely decisions, using available data.
• Agile & Resilient:
  Deals effectively with pressure, remains optimistic, persists under adversity, and recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Develops Talent:
  Effectively selects and develops people in a way that contributes to motivation and retention of a high‑performing team.
• Instills Confidence:
  Commits to placing the organizations and team’s interests above self‑interest, expresses authentic gratitude, and understands its value.
• Cultivates Engagement:
  Energizes and creates a sense of direction, purpose and excitement, creates a positive work environment with clarity around goals and working collaboratively to achieve them.
• Continuous Process Improvement:
  The ability to identify process improvement opportunities & realize changes to optimize process efficiency & effectiveness & to meet changing business requirements.
• Business Analysis:
  The ability to provide reliable & relevant information, insight and challenge business performance to ensure optimal decision making.
• Integrating Perspectives:
  The ability to understand & integrate diverse business & functional perspectives to ensure alignment in decision making & actions.