Corporate Finance Manager

Required

• Work experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, finance business partnering, strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, consulting, accounting or a related analytical role, with Manager-level ownership or the equivalent scope, and a strong understanding of financial statements. You have owned a recurring deliverable for a senior audience end to end across multiple cycles (an exec or board package, a monthly reporting pack, a client or deal model), and you have built or materially rebuilt a process or model from the ground up rather than only operated one.
• Key skills and tools: Fluency in financial statements and how they connect, including balance sheet and cash flow mechanics. Advanced analytical and modeling skills, including building models from the ground up and working with large, detailed datasets. Advanced Excel or Google Sheets and strong slide-building skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills: You distill complex analyses into clear, concise insights and recommendations for executive and board audiences, tell the story behind the numbers, and build effective working relationships with leaders outside Finance.
• Demonstrated independent ownership and problem-solving: Able to take an ambiguous problem, frame it, set priorities, and drive the work forward in the absence of templates or clear precedent. You make the routine calls yourself and bring your manager a proposal with only the decisions that need them. Does not require hand-holding on day-to-day execution.
• Exceptional accuracy and quality control: Owns and takes pride in their work. Builds checks into models and decks, self-reviews before sending work up, and treats precision as a core professional value. Catches errors before they become someone else's problem. When you hand something over as ready, it is ready: tied to source, checked against house style, and reviewed by you first, so your manager's pass is the last check rather than the first. When you fix an issue, you fix it at the source so it does not return, and your fixes do not introduce new ones.
• Proactive communication and workplan execution: Surfaces risks early, keeps stakeholders informed without being prompted, manages their own timelines, and delivers on commitments without needing to be chased. When a date will slip, your manager hears it from you before the deadline.
• Hands-on curiosity and demonstrated use of AI tools in finance workflows: Has concrete, specific examples of using AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar) to automate reporting, accelerate analysis, improve modeling, or scale deliverables. Actively looks for new places to apply AI and is energized by the pace of change. You are accountable for every number and sentence in your deliverable regardless of which tool produced it, and you never hand over AI output you have not read and verified.
• Moves at pace and learns fast: Comfortable taking on work you have not done before and learning new tools, systems and parts of the business quickly. Scrappy, curious, and a tinkerer by nature. Delivers under pressure when conditions change.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or another quantitative field.
• You're genuinely excited about what AI can do - not just as a concept, but as something you want to get your hands on. At Babylist, every team uses AI daily, and we're looking for people who lean in.
• Nice to have: Planning systems (Netsuite Planning and Budgeting, Oracle Hyperion, Anaplan, Adaptive), SQL or BI tools; experience improving or automating reporting and planning processes; familiarity with e-commerce, marketplace or retail business models; experience at both public and high-growth private companies; MBA or CPA.
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